What is the most urgent need that you have?
A sustainable model for research and development on objectives that are socially relevant rather than exploitable by industries.
What is the best/ interesting case or project on new media arts that you have just recently experienced?
The bottom-up making of the Bricolabs17 network as an ensemble of displaced and heterogeneous actors with non-obvious critical skills and experiences in the fields of new media art, architecture, urban planning, magical inspiration and ethnographic research.
This process is both interesting and challenging, as it constantly draws new directions as well requires an active exercise of criticism to keep focused and achieve results, while drawing a topography that offers knowledge and visionary models from the South of the World.
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?
The adaptation of current policies on media practices to the digital age is crucial. A policy system that respects rights and freedoms in the digital age, rather than calling them piracy, can avoid an harsh conflict that is both economical and generational. The world connected by digital technologies and the philosophies elaborated by the free software movement are offering an important step to humanity, leading to new development models based on cooperation rather than competition. While corporate interests have globalized their exploitation strategies and are facing the failure of their sustainability, a plan that opens the access to existing infrastructures and fosters the creation of independent local economies can provide an organic answer to depressive crisis scenarios.
