[spectre] Leaving Las Palmas

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Plans to set up Las Palmas, a large international institute for new media
culture, which had been due to open in 2003 in Rotterdam's historic
docklands, have been abandoned. The City of Rotterdam called a halt to the
project after a turbulent development period. Two of the five founding
partners had already withdrawn (Amsterdam's Film Museum and the Netherlands
Photo Restoration Studio); the other partners were V2, the organisation
"for unstable media", the Netherlands Photography Institute (NFI),and the
Netherlands Photo Archive (NFA). (DoP newsletter, 21-9-01)