NICEPAPER Nr.1 -- towards self-sustainable media cultural practice -- on new media cultural policy development in the region of the Baltic Sea and North East Europe -- http://nice.x-i.net
New Media Culture as emerging archipelagos of interbridged islands... Micro cultures, socially active art, information technologies, creative workshops, critical discourse, education alternatives... Connections and links... Catched in the global net... Lifeworld of communication, challenging the borders of powers and overcoming limitations of knowledge... Seed is scanning its soon-to-be-born paths through the concrete jungles... Raising the voice of the speechless, discovering the music of silence... Bringing play and colour to our reality... Designing the environment, in order to open minds... This is new territory, compared to the old geographical setup and historical similarities... We are part of a changing architecture of the Baltics, new Europe and the globe, with open societies, integrated outskirts, and a variety of cultures...----------------------------by Normunds Kozlovs/Baltic Sea Media Space meeting @ TEMP, Kiasma, Helsinki, 1999.---


CONTENT:

WELCOME TO BALTIC CYBER-CORRIDOR - [NICE] WEEK OF NEW MEDIA CULTURE IN RIGA.
By Rasa Smite

NEW MEDIA ARTS | NEW FUNDING MODELS -
Report prepared for the Creativity & Culture Division of The Rockefeller Foundation. By Pamela Jennings

PARTICIPANTS & QUESTIONNAIRE

MEDIA MASSAGE II -
Normunds Kozlovs dialogue with Tuomas Toivonen from AULA/Helsinki.

AULA-intro

CONNECTIVITY, NEW FREEDOM, NEW MARGINALITY -
A Report from the Baltic Cyber-corridor. By Eric Kluitenberg

K@2 - Culture and Information Center in Karosta

MEDIA MASSAGE III -
Discussion between Normunds Kozlovs, Rasa Smite and Sergey Timfoyev from ORBITA/Riga

THE IMPORTANCE OF MEETSPACE -
A Manual for Temporary Media Labs. By Geert Lovink

TECH_NICKS WORKSHOP SERIES. By Lisa Haskel

UPCOMING EVENTS:

MONEY Exhibition in Stockholm, June 15 - August 8, 2001.

ART+COMMUNICATION 2001 - Acoustic Space Lab, in Latvia, August-September 2001

M-NICE - Mobile Network Interface for Cultural Exchange. 2002.