Dear all,

I have notived that I am often in one-to one mode style of networking than
one to many...but these posts made me want to add somethin.

For the last years I've noticed that organisations which are run and owned
by artists and cultural managers especially in Slovenia, however
independent in their official title, are becoming a different type of
public institution, where funding dominates their internal logic. Otherwise
they aren't able to sustain themselves, but they are always ready to
negotiate. and this just makes me angry.


So I have felt rather disappointed as I have not founded or found yet a
structure that would allow me to take a few steps forward and reflect on
the cultural experimentation that in its logic strives for sustainability,
which could possibly not be measured only in short presentations to
festivals audiences, which are still being seen by cultural project funders
as some sort of stages – and not processes. taking away from this context
rare examples.


the bricolist and projects that are presented here are my continous immense
source of inspiration!


I have been lucky enough to have managed to visit friends in Asia,
especially Honf, Indonesia and Sabaw in the Philippines. And I am glad I
had the opportunity to collaborate with Atteqa for the new media mapping
Pakistan research study in the last years.


This year was then collaborately writing proposals for the project called
Migrating art academies MIGAA ( Lithuanian academy of arts) where the core
idea of the residency was to host a nomadic residency project across
different countries. for which we tried out a Europe-Asia partnership,
however that failed to materialize in the way we planned.


Some other project i was working on was funding for the next meeting of the
Transitory Network Forum, co-organized by Museum of transitory art from
Ljubljana, Ciant from Prague and Amber platform Istanbul, with Third space,
Belgrade, for which I connected as well with Interferenze in Italy. This
latter one is a festival set in Irpinia,a rural region in south of Italy,
that highlights technology-rurality connections.

I am still trying to engage in a collaboration with the festival in 2012,
even if funding for that specific meet-up was not approved, Gustaff,
Common Room Bandung was also in touch with Leandro Pisano and perhaps some
Bricos exchange could happen there. I will elaborate further on this one,
as some more funding needs to be approved.


Being partially involved with the New Media cross border project, a
Slovenia-Croatia initiative, hosted by ACT and Kruno Jost I had the
opportunity to finally meet Vicky this summer. So glad this has also
finally happened. And finally, in Kiblix, after some years we had finally a
discussions again with Kruno Jost about the Bricoboat, and other possible
ideas for infrastructures as mobile labs. More ground for Brico networking
in Čakovec, in Croatia coming up…


At Kiblix festival held recently in Maribor,Slovenia and organized by
Kibla, Marc Duseiller, (Hackteria.org) and SGMK Switzerland (DIY makeaway)
created an open lab with educational programmes that run for about 10 days
non-stop… There was also an opportunity for Tobias Hoffmann to attend a
conference at the same time on the Internet of Things as well where parallel
to super business oriented talks, social-educational role of IOT was also
highlighted also thanks to the overall concept of conference co-created by
Rob and the Opcomm centre in Ljubljana. timely connection happen there!


Just to continue, the multimedia institute Kibla showed that open lab
projects were becoming integrated in its Kiblix festival structure, but for
next year, as it will be European capital of culture, here in Maribor the
festival organizers won't allow a structure like Open, or Lab in their way
and will instead create a purely BioArt exhibition that is more aesthetical
than discursive…so moving away from the concept of open platforms…again!

and as of now, I am searching for collaborations, and engagement in various
projects which would made me slowly move away from the dependency of
public, semi-private, private institutions…and yes, it keeps a great
motivation to be part of the list, observant as of now, but ultimately very
attentive!


till soon,

Jerneja


On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:54 PM, victoria sinclair
<vickysinclair@???>wrote:

> hey all
>
> i totally agree with james' post
>
> in fact it precedes the completion of several half-written responses
> and updates i have started for the brico list in recent weeks/months
> because i too was in the EU WORKING LIKE HELL scenario....
>
> am seeing dilemmas, solutions, questions....and looking forward to
> finishing an email, predominantly to James about accreditation and
> some possible collaborations
>
> i agree with fabi too that Ubatuba in May next year will give an
> opportunity for bricos to come together again as we have discussed the
> need for f2f on numerous occasions and for many of us it has been more
> than a while this time since we met and shared our perspectives in the
> same physical location (thinking back to wintercamp...) and maybe we
> can share and think laterally and spur ourselves in lively
> collaborations and action.
>
> anyway- just a little hello, and on that note there are people here at
> the cultural digital conference who still want to see how we could get
> moving with waterlabs....
>
> any takers? where are we up to with waterlabs? has it dissolved
> itself or is it meandering towards some new activity?
>
> i will be in Taganga with Vanessa for at least a couple of weeks in
> december. Felipe is here running around co-ordinating some
> activities at the festival, but hopefully we bricos will get a chance
> to get perspective on our works again. Then we will make some posts
> about projects, but May seems a great time to get together and ubatuba
> is great!
>
> For now i am focusing on eco project network activities and after a
> dead laptop and still no retrieved data soon will be posting up
> information about projects and residencies...so, it would be great for
> some brico involvement on that once the tek problems are resolved
>
> for now - greetings from rainy Rio. Yes - those of you in colder
> parts will be happy to hear it is not always a sunny paradise here!
>
> vx
>
>
> On 12/2/11, James Wallbank <james@???> wrote:
> > Hi Fabi, Hi All,
> >
> > You ask about collaborations - and sometimes there are times when
> > collaboration is tough. Here in the EU there has been a huge, across the
> > board cut in cultural funding, support and available resources.
> >
> > Sometimes when people go quiet it's not because they aren't interested -
> > it's because they're WORKING LIKE HELL to survive, and haven't got
> > enough time to discuss the projects they're working on.
> >
> > What I like about the Brico list is that I know that people are working
> > on their own projects - sometimes I don't see or hear from Bricos for
> > several years - and then I interact with them again, and it's like
> > there's been no gap at all. Often I find that moves we make, and
> > interests that we develop, are common, even though we haven't discussed
> > them.
> >
> > So just to give you all an update, we, in Sheffield, have been WORKING
> > LIKE HELL to get resources, and keep going... and a lots of the actions
> > we have undertaken have been small and local. This year we have been
> > involved in around UKP 1200000 of funding bids (social/digital research,
> > digital inclusion, community arts, adult education...) this year. I
> > personally wrote around half of those (that's a LOT of funding bids, and
> > not interesting to discuss) and up until this week we had raised just
> > UKP 5000!!! In a normal year we would expect to raise around UKP100000
> > from UKP 300000 of funding bids.
> >
> > It seems that things have changed. I expected, with the economic crisis,
> > for our funding success rate to go from 30% to around 15% - but not the
> > <0.5% that has actually materialised!!! It has (quite suddenly) become
> > almost impossible to exist on cultural, educational and economic
> > development funding.
> >
> > But are we giving up? Hell, no! Because we are small, and cheap (for the
> > scale of what we deliver) and flexible, we can adapt. So we have an open
> > public centre to run, a team of six, and we've been running out of money
> > to pay people FAST. However, it has been conceptually very interesting,
> > and we have made lots of changes which will allow the project to
> > continue and survive - and even grow.
> >
> > There is lots to say about this - but first I have to get some more work
> > done. Watch out for some interesting announcements in the next few weeks.
> >
> > ...and maybe over the holiday period I will have some more time for
> > reflection and discussion!
> >
> > James
> >
> > P.S. Patrick, good luck with your eyes!
> > ====
> >
> > On 02/12/11 04:34, Patrice Riemens wrote:
> >> Hear! Hear!
> >> I have very little to add since I am mostly a lurker on this list, and
> >> only pick up the things I find interesting, but I think we should keep
> >> these words by Atteqa in mind - also re: other lists and activities.
> >> And on a personal note: I am undergoing eye surgery nest monday. Serious
> >> but chance of success are high.
> >> Cheers patrizio + Diiiinooos!
> >>
> >>
> >>> to add to the question posed by Fabi
> >>> My analysis of the diluted flavour on this list could be due to the
> >>> following reasons:
> >>>
> >>> a) many people on this list are male and do not have a habit of
> >>> expressing
> >>> their feelings and if they feel they have shown any then they need to
> >>> apologize as they have gone against the status quo
> >>>
> >>> b) its a european thing
> >>>
> >>> c)the kind of people and environment that readers and writers here want
> >>> to
> >>> create is a noncommiting one, stay objective and youre safe. Its great
> >>> academic gimmick, I've seen it used in many conferences that I've
> >>> attended
> >>> all over the world
> >>>
> >>> Theres nothing wrong with it, asking people to open up their Pandoras
> is
> >>> much more difficult to control for admins and time consuming no?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:07 PM, fabi borges<catadores@???>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Why everybody apologizes in this list?
> >>>> why when I put some video or work, everybody answer to me
> particularly,
> >>>> it is just for serious, very serious subject?
> >>>> there is some order I don't know?
> >>>>
> >>>> this list could be more simple and more colaborative, isn't it?
> >>>>
> >>>> apologize, apologize,,,, or.... what?
> >>>>
> >>>> with love ,
> >>>>
> >>>> fabi
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> cAsSaNdRas
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> >>>> http://catadores.wordpress.com
> >>>> http://www.youtube.com/user/catadores
> >>>> http://picasaweb.google.com.br/catadores
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> >>>>
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