Film and Media

Early in 2004, the Graduate Center of the City of New York convened ten small to mid-sized arts organizations to talk about what had happened to them in an experimental, internet-based project funded by the Ford Foundation. The ten, from across the country, are community-based cultural organizations; they share a commitment to emerging and experimental artists and art forms, and a commitment—equally firm—to their local or nearby communities. Despite their similarities of mission, the ten were not familiar with each other's work.

On December 2 and 3, 2004 the University of Chicago's Cultural Policy Center held a conference on “The Future of Public Television” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Chicago. The Center convened a star-studded series of presenters and key speakers to illuminate the current condition of public television and to make some predictions about its future. The speakers and panelists included Kathleen Cox, president and CEO, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB); Pat Mitchell, president and CEO, Public Broadcasting System (PBS); Kenneth P.

January 7, 2005. Hosted by the Ford Foundation and organized by Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media's (www.gfem.org) Working Group on Electronic Media Policy. Co-sponsored with Grantmakers in the Arts, the Funders Network on Trade and Globalization (www.fntg.org), and the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers (www.nyrag.org).

The following remarks were presented at a symposium that was part of the 2004 Ars Electronica Festival: TIMESHIFT—The World in Twenty-Five Years. This festival for art, technology, and society was founded in 1979 and is held annually in Linz, Austria. Joan Shigekawa, associate director of Creativity and Culture at the Rockefeller Foundation, spoke on the final panel of the symposium, “TOPIA,” which was designed to “present scenarios around a wide variety of topics relating to art, technology, and society.

2004, 45 pages. Published by Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, 1155 E. 60th Street, Chicago, Il 60637, 773-834-5995

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July 2004, 76 pages. Published by Art in the Public Interest, P.O. Box 68, Saxapahaw, NC, 27340, 336-376-8404, info@communityarts.net, www.communityarts.net

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2003, 83 pages. Published by National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, 145 Ninth Street, Suite 250, San Francisco, CA, 94103, 415-431-1391, namac@namac.org, www.namac.org

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2004, 48 pages. Published by Independent Television Service, 501 York Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, 415-35-6 8383, itvs@itvs.org , www.itvs.org, and Center for Social Media, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20036-801, 202-885- 3107, socialmedia@american.edu, www.centerforsocialmedia.org

March 2004, 352 pages, ISBN 1-5942-0006-8 . Published by The Penguin Press, 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY, 10014, 212-366-2000, www.penguingroup.com

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2004, 58 pages. Published by Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Decmocracy Program, Free Expression Policy Project, 161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th floor, New York, NY, 10013, 212-998-6730, www.brennancenter.org, www.fepproject.org

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