Items tagged with "conference"
19 Dec 2008
Conference Report: “The Conversation: The Future of Cinema, Games and Online Video: New Tools, New Distribution, New Rules”
A report from this conference that discussed strategies of change and survival in our ever shifting media landscape.
19 Dec 2008
Conference Report: Technology in the Arts
The Technology in the Arts Conference is a resource for the arts
community, sparking dialog around the role of technology in our
planning and programming.
07 May 2008
A VISTA From the Frontier: A Field Report
Being a dilettante professional relatively new to the field, this
conference was a great view from the frontier. From meeting other media
makers and supporters from the ‘old school’ to hanging out with fellow
VISTAs working at NAMAC’s member organizations, I was thoroughly
ecstatic to have attended. In going forth with my work here at NAMAC, I
feel better informed as their new Online Community Manager...
07 May 2008
Austin Frontier Creates New Encounters
I arrived in Austin ready to explore the state of the media arts in a
mostly uncharted territory. I had no idea what to expect, as no NAMAC
conference has ever taken place below the Mason Dixon line. The theme
of the 2007 NAMAC national conference is “The Frontier is Here”. For
me, someone who is often seen as being on the “bleeding edge” of
education, art, and technology, this frontier is both political and
geographical in nature.
07 May 2008
NAMAC, Austin, October 2007
This was my first NAMAC conference and my first time Austin. On
arriving I was really excited by the energy of the people there:
everyone had a project they were working on and their eagerness to
share was evident on faces and in the glossy literature passing from
hand to hand...
07 May 2008
Distributing with Abundance
Media distribution, and its quicksilver changeability over the last few
years, dominated the conversation on a wide range of NAMAC panels at
last month’s conference. It started the first morning, when Rick
Linklater, asked by Janet Pierson to assess the state of affairs today,
conceded that it’s both the best of times and the worst of times for
independent makers.
07 May 2008
The NAMAC Conference at Austin
I don’t know if it was the conference, the city or the wonderful people
I met, but I left Austin with the intention and hope that one day I
would return. The NAMAC Conference was the first I attended in my life.
I had no idea what to expect when I left Oakland. Both the conference
and the humid heat were all new to me. But besides a few problems here
and there, I’m glad the conference went the way it did.
07 May 2008
BAVC at NAMAC Conference: The Frontier is Here, Part I
Last Monday, I boarded a plane to Austin, TX so that I could attend the
NAMAC Austin Conference: The Frontier is Here. Yianeth Saen, a fellow
young filmmaker and member of BAVC’s Factory video program, was my
travel companion and roommate for the week. Yianeth and I arrived at
the Sheraton in Austin just in time to meet up with some of the other
young adults attending the conference.
27 Oct 2007
Out At the NAMAC Frontier
NAMAC co-director Helen De Michiel set the tone for the conference
with her welcoming remarks. She challenged us to think about the
ethical use of new technologies in our work; about how to take action,
collaborate and build our communities with concern for the common good.
An old theme to be sure, but one that needs deeper consideration as we
move into a media landscape that favors increasingly more solitary
media. “Do It With Others”, she said “connect, communicate, collaborate”.
10 Jul 2007
BITE
What IS this shit? Some stuffed-shirt museums may fit the portrait of "elitist" arts in the NEA's American Canvas (sic!) report. Or maybe the symphony, opera, dance programs... But the media arts? OUR MEDIA ARTS, that sanctified realm of ideological acuity and radical social commitment in the U.S. since before the NEA even applied a name to this field?



