Calling all media arts centers, community technology centers, museums, film festivals, media distributors, film archives, youth media centers, community access TV stations and independents working in the field of media arts to contribute to this digital timeline and scrapbook to help assemble a history of the organizations and people who have pioneered and nurtured the growth of independent media production, exhibition and distribution around the globe.
What is the media arts? And what is a media arts center? How have these vital non-profit and community-based cultural organizations, collectives and educational centers, as facilitators of storytelling using film, video, audio and digital arts, contributed to how we see ourselves and our communities?
Take a moment to compose the history of your organization and post it on this site. Illustrate it with choice mementos from your personal or institutional archives. Such items could include old press clippings, mimeographed flyers, meeting agendas, film calendars, audio and video tapes clips of specific events.
Artists too can contribute with how a specific class at a media arts center, a film screening at a repertory theater or any other kind of support, be it monetary or emotional, from a media arts center has contributed to your work.
As much is made of the way that the Internet is creating community this is an opportunity to document the importance of the places, classrooms, galleries, movie theaters, editing rooms, and wherever media artists and those who support them have gathered over the years.
moving images, moving backward and forward through history, building movement, expressing pure movement