and in brasil
http://fruido.blogspot.com/2011/06/ovo.html
the MIS is being changed from a digital arts centre to an educational centre ..
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:56 PM, pedro <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In Catalunya the Conseller de Cultura , Ferran Mascarell, has just
> announced a new project of law - known as the Llei Òmnibus - which
> effectively dismantles arts funding (including reducing the recently
> created Arts Council to a merely consultory function) and changes it
> into Cultural Industries - so if your project isnt seen as being
> profitable you dont get funding ...
>
> http://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20110603/54165359572/mascarell-suprime-todo-poder-al-conca-y-lo-deja-solo-como-consultor.html
>
> http://blog.aavc.net/tag/ferran-mascarell/
>
> minipimer now streaming a debate on this from barcelona :
> http://stream.hangar.org:8000/minipimer.ogg
>
> x
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Honor Harger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Further to the brief comments by Simon and Jon earlier this week, I think it
>> is important to elaborate on the fact that our colleagues in the Netherlands
>> are set to experience savage cuts to their funding, which threaten to change
>> the face of new media arts in that country, and possibly beyond as well.
>>
>> The Dutch Secretary of state for culture, Halbe Zijlstra, has announced
>> sweeping and historic cutbacks which take effect in January 2013. The cuts
>> effect the entire field of arts and culture, but are particularly damaging
>> for experimental arts, and media arts. Key factors for our sector include:
>>
>> - NIMK: The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) is facing a 100% cut in
>> its governmental funding.
>>
>> - "e-culture" as a sector of the funding system will be scrapped and be
>> combined with other fields to create a new "creative industries" fund.
>> e-culture currently funds STEIM, De Waag, V2, Mediamatic and several other
>> media arts organisation we know well. It would seem that all of these
>> organisations face an uncertain future.
>>
>> I welcome the comments of colleagues who are closer to the situation than I,
>> particularly those who are in the Netherlands, who may have comments or
>> insights to offer.
>>
>> In the meantime, I am copying below this email two postings from Spectre and
>> nettime, respectively. Apologies for those of you who have already seen
>> these postings, but for those who haven't, they provide some useful context
>> into the scale of the changes afoot.
>>
>> There is a statement from the Netherlands Media Art Institute here:
>> http://nimk.nl/eng/media-art-we-care
>> They are encouraging comments and feedback.
>>
>> There is a petition (in Dutch) here:
>> http://petities.nl/petitie/bezuinigen-op-cultuur-zonder-alle-feiten-nooit
>>
>> Personally, I find these decisions deeply troubling. Dutch new media arts
>> organisations have had a massive impact on the development of new media arts
>> culture internationally, and the demise of all or some of these institutions
>> would be felt well beyond the Netherlands. From the outside it appears that
>> Halbe Zijlstra is effectively razing arts and culture in one fell swoop.
>> Taken in light of similar (but by comparison, less drastic) decisions in
>> the UK, and new moves to chop arts funding in Slovenia, there is discussion
>> on other lists about how this may herald a more general withdrawal of the
>> state from arts and culture across Europe.
>>
>> I certainly hope this isn't the case.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Honor Harger
>> Director
>> Lighthouse
>> http://www.lighthouse.org.uk
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> From: Andreas Broeckmann <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: New Media Art Organisations in Netherlands lose funding
>>
>> (fwd)
>>
>> Last Friday the new policy plans of the new Minister were announced and
>> published and they are very dramatic in general for the whole field of art
>> and culture in The Netherlands. On the PNEK list it was announced as:
>>
>> New Media Art Organisations in Netherlands lose funding.
>>
>> The Dutch New Media Art Organisations Steim, De Waag, Mediamatic, V2 & NIMK
>> are about to lose all their funding.
>> The Dutch secretary of state for Culture in the Netherlands, Halbe Zijlstra,
>> has published his policy plan for coming years. In contrast to the official
>> recommendations given to him by the Culture Advisory Board, the cutbacks
>> will not be spread out over a number of years, but will take immediate
>> effect in 2013. The budget for visual art will shrink from 53,3 to 31
>> million.
>> Among the more damaging and destructive decisions is the complete cutting of
>> funding for the six leading New Media Art Organsiations that produce,
>> distribute and facilitate New Media Art;
>> -STEIM: Independent Live electronic music centre that is exclusively
>> dedicated to the performing arts.
>> -De WAAG: Organisation & Worklab for old and new media, developers of open
>> source tools, research & technology for the creative independant industry &
>> intermediate between art, science and media.
>> -Worm: Rotterdam based laboratory, venue and studios for film, music and
>> internet featuring concerts, new media events, screenings, production of
>> film, music and software art.
>> -Mediamatic: software art projects, lectures, workshops & screenings aiming
>> on the young generation of artists, designers & tinkerers.
>> -V2: interdisciplinary centre for art and media technology in Rotterdam,
>> activities include organizing presentations, exhibitions and workshops,
>> research and development of artworks operating in an international network
>> -NIMK: The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) promotes the wide and
>> unrestrained development, application and distribution of, and reflection
>> on, new technologies within the visual arts. Since the Netherlands Media Art
>> Institute came into being in 1978 an extensive collection of video and media
>> art has been assembled, to which new works are constantly being added.
>>
>> These institutes together form the foundation for New Media Arts in the
>> Netherlands and forfil an important role in the International Network that
>> shares knowledge, exchanges, produces, distributes and promotes various
>> forms of New Media Art.
>> For most of these organisations the budget cuts will mean their
>> disappearance.
>>
>>
>>
>> (fwd)
>>
>> BUT of course there is more to it. In the document one can read that
>> Architecture, Design and eCulture are fusing together in a new fund called
>> Creative Industry (something non of these sectors wants). ALL organization
>> in the 3 domains won't receive any structural funding anymore in this plan
>> BUT the new Fund, that is now being structured, will likely offer the change
>> to organizations to get structural funding (2 to 4 years). But since this
>> fund is not there yet and since they are having strong debates about the
>> role and function, and program of this fund nothing is indicated about this
>> fund in the published document. So when reading the document you get a
>> different picture of what is being debated right now insight the Ministry
>> and with the 3 sectors.
>> The thing that should be in place for this fund are
>> 1. structural funding to some of the important plpl.ayers in the 3 sectors;
>> and
>> 2. creating space for basic research in the 3 sectors.
>> When we get this done we are still facing a hardcore economic agenda (the
>> Minister is a hardcore liberal) but that we can shape and address
>> 'creatively' since we can't and don't want to fullfill this agenda
>> ourselves. Dealing with the goals of the new Fund will be a major challenge
>> since NO ONE wants this Fund and it has NO bearing grounds.
>> Still, if you read the whole document you can see that probably eCulture,
>> design and architecture are coming out best if you compare what is happening
>> in other sectors like theatre, performing arts, post academic education,
>> visual arts a.s. For example all production houses for theatre won't be
>> funded anymore; all post-academic organization like the Rijksacademie, Jan
>> van Eyck and Berlage Institute won't receive any funding anymore after 2012.
>> This are just some of the cuts that have been done.
>>
>> NIMk nevertheless, since they are not part of eCulture but the visual arts,
>> are serious trouble up from 2013. The Minister indicated that he has NO
>> responsiblity for an archive that is not set up by the Ministry but by a
>> foundation itself, so it's NIMk's responsibility to deal with their archive
>> he thinks. The same for the Theater Instituut Nederland that won't get any
>> funding and who also have a large archive on theatre on theatre covering
>> decades of history. but it's also an archive setup and organised by the
>> institute itself so also here the Minister sees no responsibilities for him.
>>
>> So you can imagine that I have been lobbying, having meetings last months
>> since we saw all of this coming, even though the result is very unexpected
>> in its format (bringing architecture, design and eCulture in one new sector
>> called Creative Industry - that nobody wants to be related to).
>>
>> I keep you updated since the coming month will be essential for the future
>> of eCulture in the Netherlands since the new fund is now being discussed and
>> shaped and should be announced end of July. And of course we think and push
>> that this new fund will supoort some organisations structuraly since the
>> budget is there (eCulture is far less cut down then any other sector, only
>> about 15% while other sectors face cut downs to 25 till 50%).
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:19:53 +0200
>> From: Florian Cramer <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: Nettime <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>
>> Some comments/remarks from someone living and working in the
>> Netherlands, more or less in the same sector (but only in education).
>> It's not correct that the new media arts organizations will lose their
>> funding completely. At the moment, the situation is not completely
>> clear yet. What is known for sure:
>>
>> - NiMK (Netherlands Institute for Media Art, still better known as
>> Montevideo) will lose its funding.
>> - "e-culture" ("e-cultuur") as a sector of the arts funding system
>> will be scrapped and be moved into a new sector "creative industries".
>>
>> "E-culture" is a word of which many Dutch people may not know that it
>> only exists in the Netherlands. It's not completely synonymous with
>> media arts, but encompasses all activities in between information
>> technology, digital media, the arts, design and social aspects of new
>> technology. The word originated with the organization "Virtual
>> Platform" in Amsterdam. In the past couple of years, it grew more
>> broadly into a "sector" of cultural funding, next to other "sectors"
>> like visual arts, music, performing arts, film etc. The organizations
>> receiving public funding within this sector are rather diverse: STEIM
>> (an institute for experimental electronic music), Waag Society
>> (nowadays a Creative Industries-oriented institute with particular
>> orientation towards projects in health care, culture and school
>> education), V2_ (organization for "unstable media", often in the form
>> of interactive art/systems), WORM (a DIY-oriented space for
>> off-mainstream music, film and media hacking), Mediamatic
>> (research/educational organization for new media, culture and
>> society).
>>
>> The funding budget for the "e-culture" sector will be moved into a new
>> "Funds for the Creative Industries". This funds/sector will cover
>> architecture and design next to new media. According to Dutch design
>> critic Max Bruinsma
>> [http://www.items.nl/2011/6/13/het-ministerie-van-de-markt/], it may
>> be represented by a new "sector institute" created out of a fusion of
>> Virtual Platform, Premsela ("Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion")
>> and the Dutch Architecture Institute NAI. A sector planning for the
>> creative industries in the Netherlands, which will also affect higher
>> education, is currently by made under the leadership Victor van der
>> Chijs, a former manager of the Schiphol Airport, ING Bank and
>> currently of Rem Koolhaas' bureau OMA. It's often hard to understand
>> for non-Dutch people that this country has a strong [and, all in all,
>> quite successful] tradition of all-encompassing, top-down master plans
>> for all areas of the country, from economy to urban development,
>> infrastructure, education and culture. We're just witnessing the birth
>> of an extremist new masterplan that will undo structures that have
>> grown in the arts sometimes over centuries.
>>
>> Outside the "e-culture" sector, all post-academic art institutes will
>> lose their funding completely and thus, with all probability, shut
>> down. This includes the Jan van Eyck Academy, where a lot of Nettimers
>> have been researchers or lecturers, and the traditional Rijksacademie,
>> the oldest art academy of the Netherlands.
>>
>> What the new sector plan will really mean for the former "e-culture"
>> organizations - aside from the fact that they will now be considered
>> service institutions for the creative industries - is not fully clear
>> yet. It could mean that they lose their base (structural) subsidies
>> and will only receive project subsidies. On the other hand, most of
>> these organizations receive a mix of national and local funding. Some
>> of them, like WORM, have been receiving national funding since only a
>> short period. By itself, the new policy concerns national funding
>> only, but will likely form the framework for local funding as well,
>> according to the Dutch "cultuurplan". The current cultuurplan period
>> began in 2009 and will end in 2012, so the changes will be effective
>> in 2013. Whoever considers this an odd marriage of socialist-style
>> plan economy and market hyper-capitalism, is not completely off. It
>> is, and always has been, one of the charms of this country.
>>
>> Halbe Zijlstra, Dutch minister of culture from the pro-business
>> liberalist VVD party, has decided to abandon the e-culture sector
>> against the recommendations in a commissioned rapport written an
>> external consultancy. In the visual arts, which will be cut 50%, he
>> has equally ignored the (previously requested) advice of the Dutch
>> Arts Council. His memo is a document of the current wave of populism
>> in Dutch politics: It states that, after WWII, the arts have been
>> defined by a small group of experts and funded according to their
>> taste. Today's society, according to Zijlstra, is more individualist
>> and has a right to arts that cater to people's diverse tastes. By
>> catering to them (and, by implication, becoming more
>> popular/accessible), art institutions can finance themselves, with the
>> exception of cultural heritage organizations whose function it is to
>> preserve the memory of Dutch history worldwide, including (to cite one
>> of his examples) coats of arms of Dutch ships in the colonies.
>>
>> Interestingly, net cultural concepts such as crowdfunding are being
>> taken, turned around and heavily promoted by the Dutch government as
>> way for arts organizations to finance themselves in the future.
>>
>> - Dutch higher education is being transformed according to the same
>> policies.
>>
>> Florian
>>
>>
>> --
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>> honor harger
>>
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