[Oberlist] Fwd: [spectre] New Media Art Organisations in Netherlands lose funding

Thu Jun 16 18:33:09 CEST 2011

salut Ruslan,

am vorbit la Europa Libera de fapt...

dami de stire in ce mod concret ne poti ajuta?

o seara buna,
Stefan

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Margina Ruslan <rmargina at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Salut Stefan. Te-am ascultat la ieri la Vocea Basarabiei. E o ideie buna.
> Trebuie realizate. Daca ai nevoie de ajutor, ma poti apela.
>
> Ruslan.
>
>
> --- On *Wed, 6/15/11, stefan rusu <suhebator at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: stefan rusu <suhebator at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Oberlist] Fwd: [spectre] New Media Art Organisations in
> Netherlands lose funding
> To: "cultura tinerilor, arta, politici culturale / youth culture, art &
> cultural policies" <oberlist at lists.idash.org>
> Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 9:21 AM
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Honor Harger* <honor at lighthouse.org.uk<http://mc/compose?to=honor@lighthouse.org.uk>
> >
> Date: Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [spectre] New Media Art Organisations in Netherlands lose
> funding
> To: spectre at mikrolisten.de <http://mc/compose?to=spectre@mikrolisten.de>
> Cc: Annette Wolfsberger <annettefromaustria at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=annettefromaustria@gmail.com>
> >
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> The situation evolving in the Netherlands is shocking and catastrophic.
>  Can those involved in the Dutch media arts scene let us know what the
> international community can do to help or support the organisations who face
> oblivion?
>
> I know they seem like small gestures, but I'm sure there's a petition or
> open letter in circulation, and it would be great to post the details of
> that here.
>
> Plus, is it worth concerned colleagues from around the world, writing
> letters directly to Halbe Zijlstra?
>
> I'm saddened and concerned, and my thoughts are with all my friends in the
> media arts sector in the Netherlands.
>
> Best,
>
> Honor
>
>
>  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%).
>
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