[spectre] FWD: Electrohype throws in the towel

[zeljko blace]

I would say this just ads to a big pile of similar cases, where small 
organisations who have no interest (for different reasons) in growing to 
big institutional sizes can locally be ignored very easily and that 
cultural capital never measures up to the political one or to the 
strategic connections to individuals in governing bodies.
It is always easier for outsiders to recognise size then expertise or 
specific aesthetic quality, then to spend time learning about field and 
issues they are dealing with.

If there was a way for cultural administrators to see that new media 
culture and digital arts can function on different scales we would not 
end up today with such a big gap in-between hundreds of small "on the 
survival edge" organisations and few huge mostly dormant or at least 
inefficient institutions.
One musicologist told me opera took half a century to be established 
internationally as art form and with it's curent form and 
infrastructural standards... so maybe we should be patient and hope for 
best ;-)

Good luck to all of the individuals who worked for Electrohype in their 
future work.

Best - Zeljko