I just got back from the National Alliance For Media Arts and Culture conference in Austin, Texas. It was a super fun time. My sweet sweet friends from the Video Databank, one of the countries best distributors of video art, let me sleep on their floor! More importantly, they won a big award and Abina Manning, their leader/programmer/not sure what her title is delivered a great speech honoring video artists--she's such a badass and a believer in the power and importance of artists who go to difficult places (sometimes REALLY difficult) in their work. The conference had many panels--some fun ones, some less fun. Most importantly, there were incredible networking opportunities and chances to meet up and learn about projects all over the country from tiny cable access channels, to big Youth Media Organizations, to video artists, web geeks, policy freaks, and other badasses! I did a panel on Popular Cultural Aesthetics and Activist Media with Franklin Lopez of Submedia, Anne Elizabeth Moore of Punk Planet, and finally Cynthia Carrion of Manhattan Neighborhood Networks. The panel went well. The panelists were all badasses. Kudos to them all.
More to come later...
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