What is the most urgent need that you have?
To communicate to a broad(er) field meaning and relevance of media arts and cross-disciplinary practice.
What is the best/ interesting case or project on new media arts that you have just recently experienced?
The Bank of Common Knowledge (Platoniq) exports the dynamics of Free Culture and the Copyleft philosophy to general processes of knowledge generation and transmission among citizens. In short, The Bank of Common Knowledge wants to allow people conscious of the value of knowledge to assemble, produce, create and transmit in new communication and exchange circuits, free from restrictive hierarchical roles.
The project Friends is a workshop which translates the so-called social web – online services such as Facebook, Myspace, etc. – into a paper-based form in physical space. All workshop participants contribute a profile page to the big Friends Book and make their own personal friends booklet in which to collect as many friends as possible. With their own hand-made profile photo stamp and a large amount of prefabricated web 2.0 service stamps, users trade among each other information about their favorite online services and web activities.
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 practice changed?
I believe that there is a potential of policy being able to generate change and to provide a fertile (or hostile) ground for media arts practice.
Providing these frameworks and conditions should be where policy makers support the environment in which artists, producers, organizations, labs and mediators take over, ideally without further regulatory policy interference.
E-Culture and media arts policy differs from country to country within Europe and beyond, but whatever level it has reached, there still is a lot of work to be done on both sides, policy makers and practitioners/researchers.
