Hi List,
Dear Taylor,
My thoughts go to you currently and I hope there are ways you can
continue to do the great work you do up in the North West with folly
and all your partnerships. I was shocked to see such a swathing cut
to some of the most established new media organisations that are
without venue, (which is another thing).
I too am getting a little frustrated with the focus put on digital
innovation and away from new media practice and critically focused
digital practice. I think this part of a national debate around
funding and developing new media practice. I for one would be really
keen to open up a public dialogue around this.
All my Best
Mat
On 31 Mar 2011, at 10:01, Sarah Cook wrote:
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>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: 31 March 2011 09:48:42 GMT+01:00
>> To: Clive Gillman <[log in to unmask]>
>> Cc: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] ACE funding
>>
>
>> (Hi Sarah, I do not have access to my usual email account for this
>> list today, please can you forwards to CRUMB)
>>
>>
>> Cheers for this Clive
>>
>> I too am shocked at the extent of disinvestment around digital
>> visual arts and new media. Though perhaps we could see this coming
>> as ACE has prioritised embedding digital distribution technologies
>> and social networking (as marketing) channels into mainstream arts
>> activity.
>>
>> Personally I see this as a flawed approach; whether we consider
>> that New Media practice and artists have informed and led
>> innovation in web technologies or whether we consider the whole
>> digital as participatory arts engagement that places a centralising
>> role on (and empowering) the consumer, or whether we consider how
>> wider artistic practices, production and publication models have
>> and are shifting through engaging with new media. The organisations
>> mentioned have been at the forefront of this, facilitating,
>> agitating and promoting such work for some tome.
>>
>> What now may be opportune is for the UK wide digital visual arts
>> community to come together and look at consolidating our work and
>> setting a clear ambition for the future.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>> Taylor Nuttall (private e-mail)
>> [log in to unmask]
>> @digitaylor
>>
>> Mob. 07932692336
>>
>> See also:
>> [log in to unmask]
>> www.thorneyhow.co.uk
>> @ThorneyHow
>>
>> Thorney How
>> Grasmere
>> Ambleside
>> Cumbria
>> LA22 9QW
>> Tel. 01539435597
>>
>> also work contact:
>> CEO
>> Folly
>> [log in to unmask]
>> www.folly.co.uk
>> @follydigitalart
>>
>> On 30 Mar 2011, at 20:45, Clive Gillman <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Don't want to start a new line, but it feels like some comment is
>>> needed on the complete wipeout of ACE-funded organisations working
>>> with new media announced today - folly, PVA, Mute, Access Space,
>>> Lovebytes, Proboscis, Vivid. Been out of the loop in England, but
>>> is that it for Arts Council England support for new media ?
>
Mat Trivett
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