Hi all,
culture cuts and the wipeout of media/electronic art definitely are
Europe-wide/global and it is extremely important to build a strong case
together.
Up here we have established the Finnish Media Art Network to collaborate and
do policy-watching and advocacy. The negligence towards our field has many
forms, just recently popping a surprise decision to insert media art in the
Arts Council's committee for Photography, without consulting neither the
Committee or the media art orgs. And we too are facing an election in two
weeks, with the Conservatives and the extreme/right/populist "True Finns"
party polled as the two winners. (The last named already announced their
agenda for culture in which "all postmodern hypocritical art" is to be left
to the markets and only "nationally invigorating art" supported).
The Finnish network will surely support the upcoming uncut agenda; I already
proposed we discuss this in our meeting next week.
all bests
Minna Tarkka
m-cult
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Andreas Broeckmann <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> folks,
>
> i also agree that this discussion is relevant far beyond the borders of
> england; i think that when it comes to drafting letters etc., it might be
> good to work in a smaller, dedicated group and venue, but the general
> discussion about the funding cuts happening in the UK right now has its
> parallels all over the continent; i know of similar discussions (always with
> a different inflection, but also with a similar basis of arguments) in, for
> instance, switzerland, japan (before fukushima), norway, all directly
> related to the status of "media art" in the structure of public arts
> funding. (the international constituency of the list should feel encouraged
> to contribute, rather than to unsub. this discussion is what the crumb list
> is there for, as far as i am concerned.)
>
> or think of the fundamental debate that is currently going on in the
> netherlands and that has a big, big question mark hanging over the *entire*
> publically funded arts sector for 2013 ff. below are some links (for those
> of you who read dutch, i could find good english summaries yet).
>
> what's interesting is that our dutch colleagues did what simon also
> suggested, i.e. interdisciplinary (they call it 'intersectorial')
> cooperation across the different art sectors. the Virtual Platform, the
> sector institute for e-culture, has a link to the document which this
> cooperation has generated - looks like an a statement that offers an
> alternative strategy to the government's ideas for funding cuts:
>
> http://virtueelplatform.nl/#3322
>
> regards,
> -a
>
>
>
> http://www.fundraisingfactory.nl/?id=225§ie=nieuws
>
> http://www.cultuurnetwerk.nl/cultuureducatie/legitimering/opinie.html
>
> http://www.robbertvanheuven.nl/?p=225
>
> http://nos.nl/artikel/203307-alleen-nog-subsidie-bij-voldoende-publiek.html
>
> http://www.cultuurbeleid.nl/
>
> http://www.sica.nl/content/nl-zwaar-weer-voor-kunsten-europa
>
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