What is the most urgent need that you have?
Concrete moves towards sustainability of internationally networked, interdisciplinary media arts and research practices.
What is the best/ interesting case or project on new media arts that you have just recently experienced?
I would like to high-light the work by Critical Art Ensemble, and the recently concluded court process by the US Government against Steve Kurtz from CAE. CAE has for years used common science materials to examine issues surrounding the new biotechnologies. Practice by CAE is a good example of how art and science can operate so that the actions by the artists are discussed in different media and made reachable for various audiences. I am quite critical of media arts that are about technology, and about art and science that merely translate data from one field of perception to another. For me, CAE stands for critical interdisciplinarity. For details on the court case click here
In your opinion, is there a potential for change on and change through a policy level, i.e. has the status of policy as an accelerator/ a meaningful factor for practise changed?
In many countries policy has become a means to make practices understandable by policy makers through a dialogue between practitioners and officers in funding bodies. It functions well as a forum for preparing decision making. Whether it succeeds in changing cultural politics though depends on how dynamic cultural policy is in action in given countries.
