What is the most urgent need that you have?
Funding resource, capacity building & international support
What is the best/ interesting case or project on new media arts that you have just recently experienced?
Urban Cartography Project, which was actually inspired by the work of Indra Ameng and Keke Tumbuan at 347/EAT exhibition space (Secret Places, 2005). This project involves its audience to map out locations with particular information for the public in Bandung to represents the dynamic psychogeography of Bandung from the view of its inhabitants. In 2005, this project renders the emerging creative practice that is being developed in Bandung for the past 10 years, which is compiled in Urban Cartography Project V.01: Bandung Creative Communities 1995 – 2005. Up until now, this project is becoming part of ongoing research on public knowledge & creativity, which has been participated by various communities in Bandung – Indonesia. Currently this project is also becomes an anchor for the network of creative communities in Bandung.
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?
In the past 10 years, there has been a lot of things are started to change in Indonesia. There is a good sign for the emerging civil society that is being cultivated by new technology in internet era. The birth of new and emerging creative practice in Bandung has been always connected with new information & knowledge that is weaved together by the internet. In the institutional level, public policy is still part of problem and an obstacle in further development for more open and independent society in Indonesia. Sometime there is a conflict and friction that is caused by different ways in understanding problems in our country. I think that is why an informal network and open environment in some case could become an accelerator and meaningful factor for practice changed. We have good hopes for the rise of new generation who are engages themselves with globalization and new technology.
