<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi<div>The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">New Media Art Organisations funding </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "> in Netherlands has ben since more then 20 years a model for working in art and media and with many issues central to contemporary art, and showing how necessary is the Istitution's presence in a full development of cultural reasearch.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">This model has allowed a great amount of experiences that have contributed to shape contemporary art and media, as well as new music, new comunications, inter/relationships with other cultures, etc...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">V2, Waag, Mediamatic, Steim, Nimk, Balie etc.. (and all the Universities' work related to them!) really defined concepts and structures of extreme modernity.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">This important platform of thought and actions has produced the most interesting and stimulating experiences.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">We must find a way to show the dutch government to defend their outstanding cultural work and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">defend those important achievements.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Prof Lorenzo Taiuti</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">University La Sapienza Roma Italy </span></div></body></html>