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Next President Should Launch the Digital New Deal
Read how, from a media arts perspective, the country needs a national broadband initiative and a “Digital New Deal.”
Spying in the House of Sundance
NAMAC was long overdue to establish a presence at Sundance, so in
January, our co-directors, Jack and Helen, went to the Festival. Our
raison de venir was to proselytize by giving out our membership
materials and publications, like Deep Focus, at the Filmmaker Lodge. We
got into some movies, we attended some parties, we stopped in on some
panels, we handed out our stuff. We shared a condo with our friends
Michael Lumpkin and Jennifer Morris from Frameline. Helen stayed for
the first weekend of the event, and Jack followed for the next three
days. Because we were not there at the same time, we had some different
experiences, which are recounted below.
Appalshop Meeting Report
In the April of 1998, Appalshop hosted a meeting of twenty mostly old timers from the media arts community nationwide to come together to talk about the state of this field, and hold a kind of strategy and brainstorming session. The question we were charged with answering (or at least talking about) was whether it was time to come together as a field with a bold, unified strategy.
