community media
The California Community Media Exchange
The California Community Media Exchange (CACMX) – an innovative partnership between seven California Community Media centers – has just completed a website, which is just one of many projects they’ve been working over the past year. The CACMX first met in August 2010 with the goal of holding four in-person meetings to share best practices and come up with different ways to work together.
One-Question Q&A: Vanessa Graber, Prometheus Radio Project
"If community radio geeks could have a holiday, it would certainly be celebrated with a barnraising."
Best and Worst of 2009 in Art and Public Media
NAMAC members weigh in on the best and worst of 2009: from work ethic to public media, web 2.0 projects to local organizing efforts.
Hear from Julia Kirt of the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition on the 10 Worst Artist Excuses for Turning Proposals or Artwork in Late, read up on the top 10 download folder items that Belinda Rawlins of the Transmission Project keeps coming back to, and check out Patty Zimmerman's list of the best international multi-platform Web 2.0 projects of 2009.
Bringing Community Media into the University: A Strategy for Developing Media Arts Programs
Community media work has always been hard to fund, and it’s only getting tougher with today’s economy. Meanwhile, universities are looking for creative ways to reach out to the communities that surround them and have the resources to do it. As a media artist/educator living in a university town, it occurred to me that I could design the kind of participatory, social change oriented media projects I’m passionate about in a way that meets the university’s needs. So I put these puzzle pieces together and over the past two years developed the Art of Regional Change (ARC) at the University of California Davis, 15 miles west of Sacramento.
Status Update: Disconnecting…See You In A Few Days
Connecting with people has never been easier than it is today. Thanks to technology and social networking, we are literally able to get up-to-the-second updates about the comings and goings of hundreds of “friends” near and far. This is powerful and exciting. Yet it seems as visual arts administrators, we’ve got so much to do and so little time to do it that we are rarely able to meaningfully connect with each other. This summer, however, I had the chance to “disconnect” from status updates and text messages and connect with an impressive group of arts professionals at the 2009 NAMAC Leadership Institute for Visual Arts Organizations.
18 Actions Towards A Sustainable Truly Free Film Community
The time is now. If we don't fully own the absolute necessity to change how we've all been working, we won't be working -- and we won't have the illuminating, inspiring, transforming films that we now enjoy. It's your choice, but action is required.
There is the capacity for many more of us to create and prosper from creative media work. This capacity can also close up and vanish along with our audiences. The canaries are now the size of Big Birds and we somehow are able to ignore them (but that is a subject for a different posts).
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture Hosts 2009 National Conference in Boston
We Make the Road By Collaborating
Collaboration has moved from the sidelines to the center of how we do business and fulfill our arts and cultural missions. As media arts organizations and practitioners, our context is an increasingly interdisciplinary and participatory culture.
Commonwealth Comes To Boston
The Mighty Oak of Access: Community Media Mourns the Loss of Dirk Koning
On February 10, 2005, Dirk Koning died of complications during an operation to correct a heart malfunction.
When Dirk Koning entered a room, you knew it. In most places, with the possible exception of an NBA locker room, he was taller than everyone in sight. His size, however, was never imposing; his was a presence that inspired affection. This gentle giant was able to create what has been called the best media center not only in the United States but in the world.
