[spectre] Re: the media art center of 21C

[Annick Bureaud]

A quick note after having read all the post and after having 
"experienced" this year Ars Electronica.

We tend to think that there is one single kind of institution that could 
fullfill the needs and goals in media art, so to speak one kind of 
"media center". This is the model of the 90s (AEC, ZKM, V2, ICC, etc.) 
where creation (experimental), lectures (conferences) and exhibition and 
sometimes collection go into the same building.

It seems to me that now as media art is part of art in general, as it is 
growing into very different kind of practices, one single kind of 
institution may be cannot fullfill all the goals and audiences and there 
is probably a need for different kind of institutions :
- one that would keep the "old stuff" (museum-like, could be in 
"regular" contemporary art museum, but it is  not). Why keep the "old 
stuff" ? because the coming generations have not seen it when it was 
created and might enjoy too and learn from it
- one that would deal with large audience and also with "education" in 
"new media art history". It is starting in some way but it has to be 
enlarged. How ? Where ?
- one that would be more experimental and cutting-edge but today there 
is no longer one aspect (if there has been any in the past !).

Annick


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