Some 2012 Conference Highlights

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Early bird rates available until July 31st.

MEET YOUR COMMUNITY

Join hundreds of media and visual arts producers, practitioners, advocates, reformers, academics and patrons.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Build your skills and expand your horizons at a variety of workshops, panels and plenaries:

● Plenary: "Artists As Leaders"

● Plenary: "Creative Placemaking"

● Networked Nonprofits: Leading the Field in a Peer-to-Peer Universe

● Activating Networks through Power Mapping and Social Network Analysis

● A Brief History of the Alternative Spaces Movement, 1997-2012

● Borders, Digital Diasporas & Ethnic Media

● The Mobile-Media Millennium

● The Public in Public Art

● Pennies from Heaven: Crowdfunding Critiques & Innovations

● Workshop: Burnout & Nurturing Productivity

● Workshop: Fiscal Sponsorship: Extending Nonprofit Impacts

● Workshop: Circumventing Censorship

● Policy for the Generations: Public & Community Access

● Prodding the Sleeping Giants: Media, Arts & Citizen’s Movements

● Media Literacy: Surviving in a Saturated Media Environment

● Defending & Extending the Commons: a Generational Manifesto

● Youth Media Networks: How We’re Connected

● Serving Neglected Communities

● … and many more!

EXPOSITION
Encounter dozens of media and visual-arts innovators, venues, service providers, and showcase your work to hundreds of conference attendees.

SCIENCE FAIR
Experiment with and showcase new technologies in transmedia, gaming, production, presentation technologies.

MEET & GREET WITH FUNDERS
Converse directly with grant makers.

OPEN CONVENING GROUPS
Affiliate, organize, teach, learn and socialize around topics in production, practice, development, management and more.

TOURS, PARTIES & SHINDIGS
Hosted by peer organizations in the thriving Minneapolis community, including the Soap Factory, Franklin Art Works, MTN Studios, Intermedia Arts, the Hack Factory and the Walker Art Center.