hello
> On Sun, 04 Mar 2012, bronac@??? wrote:
>
>> I would propose we respond with the following:
>>
>> bricolabs is a translocal, intraregional network that regards
>> nationally determined cultural policies for 'new media' as attempts
>> to dominate, rationalise, claim and own practices that exist by
>> nature of being between and outside and beyond such
>> frameworks. Inclusion of a network like bricolabs in a category such
>> as Dutch media labs is futile, incommensurate, without reality and
>> frankly deluded.
>>
>> Yours sincerely
>> the bricolabs network
>
> Bronac you are definitely the most elegant, calm, sharp and rational
> voice of the whole circus here. This formulation washes away all my
> narrow self-references and goes straight to the point which I also
> reach to see now more clearly... for instance, what about the change
> of name from Montevideo/Time Based Arts to Netherlands Media Art
> Institute, which happened already some years ago? As someone else
> wrote already "cultural meltdown in process".
>
> Please then let's go ahead with this exact formulation.
>
> The sarcastic question I'd leave on this table: when we can start
> calling "collaborationists" those condescending cultural operators
> selling out? ... :^/
>
> I'll close this chapter, not worth spending more energy on it. Anyone
> interested in teaming up in the Randstad area: dyne.org is up to
> implement some kind of "emergent institution" gig (a la Commonwealth,
> last chapter, first RTFM before contacting us..) with some important
> patching to the concepts, as in less focus on singularity and emphasis
> on processes and access.
>
> Insha'Allah
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