What is the most urgent need that you have?
Media art & science & tech education: to bring together local and international educational experts
What is the best/ interesting case or project on new media arts that you have just recently experienced?
The intersection of historical works, juxtaposed with current experimental formats such as Norman White’s Menage (1974) inspired by the work of W. Grey Walter, a neuroscientist who studied the effects of brain damage to soldiers returning from battle during WWII shown together with Unprepared Architecture (2007) by Simone Jones and Julian Oliver. This work presents “augmented reality” through perception, space and limitations of the two dimensional picture plane. The ceiling mounted robots of Menage interact with each other independent of the visitors, while Unprepared Architecture places the body of the viewer at the centre of the mediated experience. The line of development traced through these works provides us with constructive notions. The installations were included in the IA25: MAPPING A PRACTICE OF MEDIA ART, which I co-curated for the 25th Anniversary Celebration (2008) of InterAccess, Electroni Media Arts Center, Toronto.
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?
Personally, I did not experience major (and positive) changes.
