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05 Aug 2010 NAMACAdmin

Oxygen-Deprivation Politics

Author: 
Arlene Goldbard

The scapegoating of Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was forced to resign last week, was such a perfect, surreal, and toxic example of everything that is wrong with our politics that I am daring to hope we can actually learn something from it.

28 May 2010 NAMACAdmin

So What? A Cinematic Tour of Philosophy

Author: 
Arlene Goldbard
So many of us want to make things better: the world, our lives, the lives of others. Some are driven by a vision; if not the lion and lamb cuddling up together, at least a greater harmony and wholeness.
12 Jun 2009 Sara Jane Keskula

A Preview of NAMAC’s 2009 Conference

Over a year ago, when NAMAC chose Boston as the location for its 2009 biennial conference and chose “commonwealth” as its theme, nobody involved knew how important this convening would become.

Home Improvement: Capacity-Building in the Media Arts

Submitted by Helen De Michiel on May 19, 2008 - 11:57am
Author: 
Helen De Michiel
Capacity means the ability to accomplish, change, remodel, or act on something that is a necessity, but often invisible because it is part of the operations or architecture of an organization. Since nonprofits must focus so intently on the work that becomes their public face, they do not have an easy ability to re-engineer the infrastructure hidden below. Since 1999, NAMAC has offered modest capacity building grants -- much like capital infusions to either start or complete a much-needed home improvement project.
10 Jul 2007 NAMACStaff

SHIFT

Author: 
Larry Daressa
The following sketches ideas which will be developed more fully in a forthcoming article on California Newsreel's 30th Anniversary and its implications for independent social change film production and distribution. The author is Co-director of California Newsreel but the views expressed here do not reflect those of California Newsreel.

I suppose, in the overused parlance of the time, this should be an occasion to "celebrate" California Newsreel and its 30th anniversary. Age, however, disposes me towards more sober and sobering reflections.

05 Jun 2007 NAMACStaff

Starting Strong: South Korea's Media Arts Community

Author: 
Peter Mitchell
Everyday occurrences can lead to extraordinary events. Not long ago a polite gentleman visited 911 Media Arts Center and asked me for a tour. This isn't unusual; giving tours is part of my job. However, I was surprised to learn he was the director of a brand new media center in South Korea called MediACT. He told me he was researching different media arts center models and was interested in 911 because he liked our website. As webmaster, I was terribly flattered. I proceeded to show him every last detail of our center, and he dutifully captured it all on video.

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Submitted by NAMACStaff on December 19, 2006 - 10:00pm
Author: 
Kyle Harris
Saturday night I got home from a party. While I was scanning emails—deleting ads for Viagra, cheap airfare, and listserv nonsense—I saw the subject header, “NY Independent Media Center (IMC) Journalist Murdered by Paramilitaries.”

Electing Activism

Submitted by NAMACStaff on December 14, 2005 - 10:00pm
Author: 
Jay Brause
As I followed the Activism track at the Talking Liberties Conference, I pondered a question that wasn’t asked: How does living in a country that is at war (still and yet again) affect our work as artists? The likely answer: quite a bit, because in government, crisis shapes monetary policy.
14 Nov 2005 NAMACStaff

Media Justice and Media Reform

Author: 
Jon Stout

In the last issue of MAIN, NAMAC co-director Helen De Michiel covered the National Conference for Media Reform, organized by Free Press in St. Louis this past May. After discussing the various clarion calls sounded at the conference, she observed that NAMAC’s own constituency seemed sparsely represented among the participants. She emphasized the imperative for NAMAC members to get involved in the burgeoning campaigns for media reform and media justice.

Information Technology: The Masses' Media

Submitted by NAMACStaff on November 14, 2005 - 10:00pm
Author: 
Marlina Gonzalez
For someone who has been attending NAMAC conferences since the '80s, as an organizational member and as a board member, each year always brought out the variations of the important themes of activism, democracy, access, multiculturalism. But one factor was so different this year: how digital technology has permeated street culture.