What is the most urgent need you have?
Lightness and time
What is the best/ interesting case or project on new media arts that you have just recently experienced?
Biomodd is a social and interactive art project that brings together ecology, game culture and installation art. The work tries to visualise and rework the intricate relation of organic life, technology and consumption. Inspired by the case modding scene, a monumental custom computer is built as a form of expanded sculpture. Inside the case, excess heat of overclocked processors is recycled by an elaborate living ecosystem. The computer hardware is used as server for a new computer game. The objective of this game is to bring some of the main themes of Biomodd into an imaginative multiplayer game experience. Both the computer structure and the game are developed with a group of biology, game and art enthusiasts. Furthermore, exhibition visitors can also actively modify the piece: through playing they generate heat and hence influence the interior ecosystem. Biomodd is not a project with a classic art object-oriented focus. It is rather conceived as a nomadic project where each local version will have its own temporary character. Only parts of previous versions are integrated in each new structure. The travelling, social and evolving nature of the project is essential. (By Angelo Vermeulen)
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?
Yes there is a potential, if the policy is sufficiently in touch with practice. Change can be forced top-down without this, but in this case it will not have an impact on the long-term cultural changes.
