Organized Networks

Training Programme in Cultural Network Management

Questionnaire

1. NAME (of your organisation) AND COUNTRY:

2. MISSION (aims):

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
(please list your main activities (5-6) in priority order: e.g. organising of public events, organising of festivals (name of festival), hosting artists residency programmes, publications, art productions, or other):

4. SCALE:
(how many people work in your organisation)
4.1) full time:
4.2) part time:
4.3) volunteers:
4.4) internship: (are you collaborating with some universities, can students work in your organisation for obtaining practical skills in org. management, or other ways)

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
(please list what do you have regarding physical space: venue for public events, office space, lab space with facilities, libarary with books and audio/video archive, other?)

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.1) do you have your own server / or server space? If yes, what is the main URL?
6.2) what is your organisation’s main website address:
6.3) do you host your own publication and info-channels: e.g. blog, twitter, mailinglist, other (please list them and add their URLs)
6.4) what are the other main information exchange channels you use for your announcments: e.g. mailinglists (international, local): spectre, nice, other?

7. NETWORKING:
7.1) Connectivity: please list all organisations you are collaborating with:
a) Organisations you have had close collaboration (e.g. shared resources, developed co-projects, exchange programmes, etc.):
b) Other organisations (with whom you have indirect collaborations, e.g. participating in the same network or event, but not having experience working together):
7.2) Funding: please list funding institutions from which your organisation has recieved support:
a) public / private foundations
b) private sponsors
7.3) Networks: please list all networks you have been involved (please indicate also your role: are you co-founder or member)
a) local networks:
b) translocal networks:

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:
(you can answer any of these questions by your choice):
What are the most crucial sustainability issues for your organisation and its’ networks?
What are the issues you would like to address in the meeting?
Which topics are you interested to discuss more specifically: open source, alternative economics, art and renewable energy projects, festival / exhibition cooperations, residency exchanges, other?
Or anything else, you would like to say, ask, discuss in the meeting…

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture (Latvia)

2. MISSION:
To explore the role of art in a broader social context; to be a meeting place for different types of cultures on both local and international scale; to experiment with new media technologies and new forms in art.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:

1. Organizing public events for new media art and culture;
2. Organizing Festival for New media culture Art+Communication;
3. Publishing “Acoustic space” publication series;
4. Production of collaborative media art projects;
5. Local and translocal networking

4. SCALE:
4.1) full time: 5 people
4.2) part time: 1 person
4.3) volunteers: 1 – 5 people
4.4) internship: students from Liepaja University and Riga Stradins University (Latvia).

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
RIXC has an Office Space, Space for public events – RIXC Media Space (in Artists Union Building), and an exhibition space – RIXC Gallery at Spikeri (in kim? building).

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.1) Own server URL – http://www.rixc.lv

6.2) Organisation’s main website address: http://rixc.lv

6.3) Publication and info-channels:
RIXC on Twitter (http://twitter.com/rixcriga), local mailinglist REZONE (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/), Baltic-Nordic mailinglist NICE, other mailinglists: Locative (for locative media), Xchange (for internet radio and sound art), and Renewable (for art and renewable energy).

6.4) Other main information exchange channels for your announcements:
SPECTRE, NICE, recently launched RENEWABLE mailinglist and others.

7. NETWORKING:

7.1) Connectivity:

Atelier Nord (Oslo) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project RAM (2001-2004)
De Balie (e.g. co-organising events of the “net.congestion” festival in Amsterdam, 2000),
Banff New Media Institute / Banff Center for the Arts (Canada) – regular participation in conferences; co-developing of streaming radio programmes in the framework of Xchange network (since 1998)
Contemporary Art Centre (Lithuania) – partnership in exhibition productions
CRAC – Creative Room for Art and Computing (Stokholma) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project RAM (2001-2004)
Contemporary Arts Association (Minska) – associated partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project RAM
Dlux, media center (Sidneja) – regular participation in conferences and artists exchange
Ellipse (France) – French-Latvian artists exchange, residencies and collaborative project “Spectrography” (2005); partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project TCM (2004)
E-Media Center / Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonia) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project RAM
Foam (Belgium) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project TRG (2005)
Hartware MedienKunst Verein (Germany) – partner in organising the RIXC’s participation in “nrw_scene” festival in Dortmund (2006)
Katastro.fi (Helsinki) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project RAM (2001-2004)
Kuda.org (Novi Sad/Serbija) – partner in artists residency exchange programme (since 2003)
Kulturverkstan/Natverkstan (Sweden) – partner for NICE and management training programme developing (2001)
Lorna (Iceland) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project TCM (2004)
MAMA/ Multimedia institut in Zagreb (Crotia) – partner for artists residency exchange programme
Media Art Lab (Maskava)
Montevideo (e.g. organized video-lecture series in Riga, 2003).
M-Cult (Helsinki) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project RAM (2001-2004)
Mikro & Bootlab (Berlīne) – partner for Xchange network in streaming media projects (since 1998)
Okno (Belgium) – partner for Waves project (2006)
Piknik Frequency Ry  (Finland) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project TCM (2004)
Projekt Atol (Slovenia) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project TCM (2004)
Pro Arte (Russia) –
RadioQualia (Adelaida, Austrālija) – partner for Xchange network project development (since 1998)
Smart Studio, Interactive Institute (Sweden) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project TRG (2005)
TEKS (Norway) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project TCM (2004)
Tesla (Germany) – partner in WAVES project
Times Up (Austria) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project TRG (2005)
VILMA (Lithuania) – partner in EU Culture 2000 supported project RAM (2001-2004)
V2 (e.g. exchange project between Latvian and Dutch media artists in the framework of European Cultural Capital City, in Riga and Rotterdam, 2001),
de Waag (e.g. organising RIXC artists group participation in World-information.org exhibition in Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, 2002);
Virtual Platform (e.g. co-founding the ECB network together with other European media art organizations)

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations

Latvian Cultural Capital Foundation
Foundation de France
Mondrian Foundation
European Cultural Foundation
EU programme Culture 2000
Nordic Culture Fund
Nordic Council of Ministers Information Point in Riga
Nordic Culture Point
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia
Riga City Council
Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres Republique Francaise
French Cultural Centre
Swedish Institute
Pro Helvetia
Mondriaan Foundation

7.3) Networks:
a) local networks:
Association for Cultural NGOs

b) translocal networks:
NICE Network – for media labs and new media art centers in the region of the Baltic Sea and North East Europe
Xchange Network – for internet radio, streaming media and acoustic space explorations
Locative Network – for location-based art
Spectre – mailinglist and nework for media arts in Deep Europe
ECB – European Cultural Backbone – towards European Media Cultural Policy

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:

Q: What are the issues you would like to address in the meeting?
A: The goal of this meeting is to work out clear next steps for how to go on with Art and Renewable Network in order that its’ work results into real collaborative projects in the field of art and renewable energy.

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
Piknik Frequency ry (Finland)

2. MISSION:
The main goal of Piknik Frequency ry is to organise the Pixelache, festival of electronic art and subcultures.

PikseliÄHKY // PixelACHE is a festival of electronic art and subcultures, organised in Helsinki since year 2002.
Through a series of performances, exhibitions and club events, Pixelache presents playful projects both experimenting with and taking a critical approach to media and technology. In addition, the festival features practical workshops as well as seminars addressing current issues in the development of digital media.
Amongst the festival’s fields of interest are: experimental interaction and electronics; VJ culture and audiovisual performances; grassroot organising and networks; politics and economics of media/technology; media literacy and engaging environmental issues.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
Organising Pixelache Festival annually,
organising punctual educational events around the year (Pixelversity),
coordinating Pixelache international network,
hosting artists residency programmes.

4. SCALE:
4.1) full time: 1 person,
4.2) part time: about 5 people,
4.3) volunteers: about 30 people.
4.4) internship: (are you collaborating with some universities, can students work in your organisation for obtaining practical skills in org. management, or other ways?)
Yes, but not on a regular basis.

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
We rent tables at Mindworks Open Studio, no other physical space.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.1) Do you have your own server?
Yes, we have our own server.

6.2) Organisation’s main website address: http://www.pixelache.ac

6.3) Publication and info-channels:
Blog: www.pixelache.ac/blog
Pixlache network site: www.pixelache.ac
Wiki: http://wiki.pixelache.ac/
Vimeo platform: http://www.vimeo.com/pixelachehel/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/pixelache/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/pixelache/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28593749522

6.4) Other main information exchange channels for announcements:
Pixelache own mailing lists, Spectre, Rhizome, katastro.fi

7. NETWORKING:
7.1) Connectivity:

a) Close collaboration organisations:
Pixelache Network members
NIFCA
HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Residency Programme
VJ Finland
Koelse – Kokeellisen elektroniikan seura / Association of Experimental Electronics
Doors of Perception conference
CRAC
University of Art and Design Helsinki
MUU ry
RIXC
Plektrum
Demos Finland

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
Ministry of Education
Minstry of Foreign Affaires
Finnish Art Council
AVEK
City of Helsinki
Nordic Contact Point
Nordic Culture Fund
European Union
Foundation Kordelin
Foundation Svenska Kulturfonden

b) private sponsors
Nokia
Helsinki Energy
+ other small new media companies
+ other small project-related sponsors

7.3) Networks:

b) translocal networks:
Pixelache Network – founder

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:
[no answer]

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
MARIN Association (Finland)

2. MISSION:
To research, produce projects, to run a residency and network that addresses marine ecologies, sustainable use of technologies and mobility, at the crossroads of art and science.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
1. Oranize M.A.R.I.N. research residency annually
2. Foster forming a network between art and science organisations and individuals
3. Co-ordinate and realize research projects in our field
4. Run workshops in collaboration with project partners
5. Participate and co-produce exhibitions and events
6. Publish text, audio, data, maps, software

4. SCALE:
4.2) part time: 2 people,
4.3) volunteers: 4 people.

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
No venue, but a residency vessel for each summer season.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.1) Own server’s main URL: http://marin.cc

6.2) Organisation’s main website address: http://marin.cc

6.3) Publication and info-channels: Facebook, Twitter, Pool community media portal, and wiki for production coordination, ical

6.4) Main information exchange channels for announcements: e-mail lists and partner event marketing/comm teams if available.

7. NETWORKING:
7.1) Connectivity:

a) Close collaboration organisations:

Pixelache Festival, Helsinki, Finland http://www.pixelache.ac
RIXC, Riga, Latvia http://www.rixc.lv/
Rauma Art Museum http://www.raumantaidemuseo.fi/english/
Copenhagen Dream House (Half-Machine) www.halfmachine.dk
Plektrum Festival, Tallinn, Estonia http://www.plektrumfestival.ee/
i/o/lab, Stavanger, Norway http://iolab.no
Lorna, Reykjavik, Iceland http://www.rhiz.eu/institution-11658-en.html
Humlab, Umeå, Sweden www.humlab.umu.se

AND Festival, UK
FACT Liverpool, UK
Folly, Lancaster, UK
ISEA2009 & University of Ulster, NI
Catalyst Arts, Belfast, NI
University of Salford, UK
University of New South Wales, AU
Audio Nomad, AU
House of Natural Fiber, ID

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Environmental Agency, Lisburn, NI
National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin, Ireland
British Oceanographic Data Centre, Liverpool, UK.
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool, UK

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:

Finish Institute of Marine Research, Helsinki, FI
Finland’s Environment Administration, Helsinki, FI
HEUREKA, Finish Science Centre, Vantaa, FI
BONUS Baltic Organisations’ Network for Funding Science, Helsinki, FI
FOAM, Brussels, BE
OKNO, Brussels, BE
Kitchen, Budapest, HU
Virtual Platform, Amsterdam, NL
BEK-Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, Bergen, NO
HMKV, Dortmund, DE
Arts Catalyst, London, UK
Dyne.ORG, Siracusa, IT
University Center for Euro-Mediterranean Studies, Piran, SI
University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, SI
YASMIN Network (Egypt, Tunis, Algeria, Lebanon, Turkey, Croatia, Albania,
Hungary, Portugal, Spain, France, Greece, 9(11) Libya, Israel, Syria, Slovenia, Italy,
Morocco, Montenegro)
Leonard/olats, Paris, FR
Universite Tangente, FR
Planet Laboratorie, FR
Eyebeam, New York
University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara, USA
UniversIty of California, Riverside, USA
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, USA
MIT Medialab culture computing group, Cambridge, USA

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
AVEK, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture
Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
Arts Council of Finland
The Finnish Institute in London
Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia
Australia Council for the Arts
Asia Europe Foundation
Kulturkontakt Nord

b) private sponsors
Azam Foundation

7.3) Networks:
As Marin is quite recent organisation, I could not list the networks we are involved in… so I list networks I have been involved in, to give a track record. Also whether one lists e-mail lists as networks, is an open question, but I list them also:

a) local networks:
katastro.fi
charmlist
Finnish Network for Cultural Studies
Finnish Network for Game Studies
Attac, Finland
Carrot mob

b) translocal networks:
Inter-Society for Electronic Arts ISEA
Leonardo ISAST
European Cultural Backbone, co-founder
polar circuit, founder
NICE network
m-cult related networks, co-founder
nettime
fibreculture
bricolabs
dynebolic
mute
rhizome
idc
V2_East -> Syndicate->Spectre
Sarai (several lists)
Fibreculture
Australian Network for Art and Technology, ANAT
IFACCA

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:

Q: What are the most crucial sustainability issues for your organisation and its’ networks?

A: I would first like to raise some discussion on the use of the term “sustainability”. It should be made clear that while not unrelated, ecological sustainability is distinct from the general “being able to maintain and develop economically and otherwise”. So when addressing sustainability, we should specify which aspect of the term we are referring to.

1. Ecological S*: developing one’s production and organisational practice to not only design ecologically, but to come up with ideas, discourse and actions that contribute to ecological sustainability on several levels. This is a slow process and not a black and white issue that can be measured so easily.

2. Economic S*: improving funding for infrastructure is always the hardest task, while project fundability is relatively good.
–> for this workshop: how to share resources more effectively to do the work we do?

3. Human resources S*: how not to burn out, because Economic S* is at least fluctuating if not always very hard to maintain. How we can describe our activity as education and learning, social impact, publishing, and other modes which in fact become assets for the participants to the events and projects? Ie. how to translate different parts of activities into economies, yet not necessarily monetary ones?

4. Critical and discursive S*: Perhaps most underrated discussion, but an important one, is to link our practices with history and critical sustainability rather than going with each discursive and industry driven rhetorical and technological turn?

Q: What are the issues you would like to address in the meeting?
A: On-line networks in my experience are not sustainable for production purposes, but rather mediation of information and ideas. The larger they are, the more unfocused they become.
When talking about organized networks, I take it is a step-up from the wider networkendess we are in towards combining a network with a particular agency or a set of practical goals. Here, again, the more diverse an ON would be, the less chances it has for survival or being effective, if it reaches for tangible outcomes. I am currently interested in a networked organisation, ie. where the .org itself is a network. The sustainability of something like that I would argue depends on a balance of authorship and control with shared kudos and openness. Think about Linux for example, which at its Kernel core is very tight and closed, and at the edges as open as possible.

Q: Anything else, you would like to say, ask, discuss in the meeting…?
A: I am interested currently in partnerships around M.A.R.I.N. ie. how different orgs and projects could interface with it…

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
Kultivator (Sweden)

2. MISSION:
Experiment in the field of agriculture+art, create room for discussion and development of new ideas or thoughtpatterns.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
Art productions for:
SKOR, Wilhelmina Polder, Växjö Konshall, W139, Verbeke Foundation,
Forming and executing collaborative projects:
Glocalguide, Right to farm the land, Make a meal of it, Right of public access, a.o
Hosting guestartists:
3-4 per year

4. SCALE:
4.1) full time: 1 person,
4.2) part time: 5 persons,
4.3) volunteers: 1 person
4.4) internship: We are regularly having artstudents (2-3 weeks per year) working on sometimes their own projects, sometimes helping us with building, etc.

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
Meeting/conference room, office, exhibition space, outdoor spaces, the farm.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:

6.2) Organisation’s main website address: http://kultivator. org

6.4) Main information exchange channels for announcements: mailinglist, Facebook,

7. NETWORKING:

7.1) Connectivity:

a) Close collaboration organisations:
Yellow Box, Nedre bygatan, Littoral, SKOR, My villages, Doors of perception, W139, El Parche, Skart, Kalmar konstmuseum, Mossutställningar, Sprong, Plan3/octava, Public globality gardens, foam, Kasteel Groeneveldt, Seeds for life, Mykorritza, Reaktor Sydost, Ölands folkhögskola, Free Soil, One minute Festival, Verbeke foundation

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:
SERDE, RIXC, pixelache, piksel, fremtidssmia, plataforma rural, supermarket artfair (more than 50 artistrun initiatives, international) futurefarmers, arabeschi di latte, plantot, living on the edge.

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundation
Framtidens kultur
LRF
LBU
Leader
SKOR
Littoral
Foam
Verbeke foundation

7.3) Networks:

a) local networks:
Ny kul ö – co-founder, KRO – member, One minute festival – member/partner, Skördefesten – member

b) translocal networks: One minute festival.

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:

Q: What are the issues you would like to address in the meeting?
A: We are interested in the ideas over how a network could be an institution, what structures could we make to really support and collaborate. For us being an initiative in rural area the aspect of connecting on line is vital. We are also interested in the open source approach, exchanges and collaborations, in art + agriculture projects.

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
NMM / Resistans > Citilab (Sweden)

2. MISSION:
Inspire and innovate

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
1. New Media Meeting Festival
2. Other public events
3. Support organizers
4. Support artists
5. Diverse production

4. SCALE:
4.2) part time: 5 people
4.3) volunteers: more than 20 people
4.4) internship: (are you collaborating with some universities, can students work in your organisation for obtaining practical skills in org. management, or other ways?)
Yes. All of the above.

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
We have workspace at Interactive Institute and a office not far from it.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:

6.2) what is your organisation’s main website address:
Organisation’s main website address: http://www.nmm.se

6.4) Other main information exchange channels for announcements: individual contacts through members own organizations.

7. NETWORKING:
7.1) Connectivity:

a) Close collaboration organisations:
Citiab
Norrköpings Kommun
Norrköping Science Park
Östsam
Interactive Institute
Nordisk Kulturfond

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:
Too many to list.

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
Citiab
Norrköpings Kommun
Norrköping Science Park
Östsam
Interactive Institute
Nordisk Kulturfond

b) private sponsors
Too many to list.

7.3) Networks:
[no networks]

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:
Q: What are the most crucial sustainability issues for your organisation and its’ networks?
A: Time. Our organization is non-profit.

Q: What are the issues you would like to address in the meeting?
A: Co-operation in 2010.

Q: Which topics are you interested to discuss more specifically: open source, alternative economics, art and renewable energy projects, festival / exhibition cooperations, residency exchanges, other?
A: Festival / exhibition co-operation.

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
Mejan Labs (Sweden)

2. MISSION:
Combining an innovative exhibition programme with education, research and experimentation. Show international artists who are yet to be shown in Sweden, as a means to make visible a range of approaches not yet established with the Swedish audiences.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
Exhibitions, both in own gallery and external exhibitions, seminars, workshops, lectures.

4. SCALE:
4.1) full time: 1 person,
4.3) volunteers: 1 person
4.4) internship: We sometimes make projects for and with students of the Royal University College of Art in Stockholm.

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
Office space and gallery.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.2) Organisation’s main website address:
http: //www.mejanlabs.se

6.3) Publication and info-channels: Just Facebook group. You can get news letter via email. Subscribe via http://www.mejanlabs.se

6.4) Other main information exchange channels for announcements: Facebook and own mail list.

7. NETWORKING:

7.1) Connectivity:
Permanent collaborations: Royal University College of Fine Art and Royal Academy of Art. Apart from that we have temporarily collaborated with a large number of organisations, such as Interactive Institute, Furtherfield, Swedish Institute, National Museum of Science and Technology, National Museum of Nature History, Modern Museum, Kulturhuset, Konsthall C, Nacka Konsthall, Bildmuseet in Umeå, Luleå Konsthall, Uppsala County, British Council, Polish Institute, Croatian Contemporary Art Gallery, National Academy of Art in Minsk, Swedish VJ-Union, Pixelache and many, many more.

a) Close collaboration organisations:
Royal University College of Fine Arts and Royal Academy of Art

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations: too many to mention….

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
None.

b) private sponsors
Only private funding.

7.3) Networks: Pixelache.

a) local networks:
Node.stockholm (founder, there’s no organisation anymore)

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:
[no answer]

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
Lorna – Association for Electronic Arts (Iceland)

2. MISSION:
To nurish and promote media art in Iceland.
To initiate and sustain international and local networks with other similar associations, orginsations and individual artists.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
Art production, festivals (Pikslaverk), public events, artists residency, research

4. SCALE:
4.3) volunteers: 4 people

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
We don’t have any physical space. We collaborate with orginsations and institutions, e.g. Reykjavik Art Museum, Icelandic Academy of Arts, galleries, Living Art Museum and other artists run spaces.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.1) Lorna does not currently have its own server space but receives hosting through one of its members (Pall Thayer: pallit.lhi.is) and uses the URL for its Pikslaverk festival for the primary organization URL.

6.2) Organisation’s main website address: http://www.pikslaverk.org

6.4) Other main information exchange channels for announcments – mailinglists: Rhizome, e-mails

7. NETWORKING:
7.1) Connectivity

a) Close collaboration organisations:
RIXC
Pixelache
Catalyste
Hartware MedienKunstVereins
Projekt Atol
Raflost / S.L.Á.T.U.R.
NIFCA/RIXC
m-cult
Prix Möbius
World Summit Award of the United Nation

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:
Media Lab Europe, Dublin, IT University
Copenhagen/Centre of Game Research
Media Lab UIAH, Helsinki.
Research Service of the Icelandic University
Piksel

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
Nordisk Kultur Fond
EU-Culture Fund
Ministry of Education and Culture
Reykjavik Academy
Municipality of Hornafjordur

b) private sponsors
Islandsbanki
Vodafone

7.3) Networks:

a) local networks:
Raflost/Pikslaverk – co-founder

b) translocal networks:
Pixelache (member)

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:
[no answer]

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
Atelier Nord (Norway)

2. MISSION (aims):
Atelier Nord is a project base for unstable art forms, such as electronic and new media.
Our aim is to create better conditions for unstable art forms, and to maintain a critical reflection to them.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
Our work consists of producing and supporting projects that promote the above mentioned goals. We produce both collaborations and self initiated projects. A project can involve producing works of art, workshops, exhibitions and conferences. The projects vary in size and duration. Atelier Nord also offers various, standard services for production and communication.

4. SCALE:
4.1) full time: 2 people
4.2) part time: 1 person (50%)

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
Project room of 65 m2: The room is used for production, seminars and workshops. It is also used by artists testing ideas for installations and exhibitions. When the artists wish to have a public event this is possible. The size of the room limits the number of audience to 40 – 50 people depending on the character of the art work to be presented.

Lab/Office space 91 m2 with 3 permanent work stations and room 5 working in the lab area. The workstations are open for artists on a drop-in basis or for longer projects.

Please see detailed list of equipment in the Project room and Lab/Office space on web page: http://ateliernord.no

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.1) Own server’s main URL: http://ateliernord.no

6.2) Organisation’s main website address:http://www.ateliernord.no

6.3) Publication and info-channels: A mailinglist consisting of 1100 subscribers. Atelier Nord also has a profile on Facebook and Twitter.

6.4) Main information exchange channels for announcements: web page, our own mailinglist, e-kunst, Underskog, a local net community for actors in the cultural sector.

7. NETWORKING:

7.1) Connectivity: please list all organisations you are collaborating with:

a) Close collaboration organisations:
PNEK in Norway (Production network for electronic art in Norway)
Dance Information Norway, Kedja (Dance and New Media), Nordic Sound Art, Norwegian Short Film Festival, Rom for Art & Architecture.

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:
Norwegian Arts Council, Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs, Atopia, Oslo, ICEM, Essen, General Public, Berlin, Baltan Laboratories, The Netherlands, Bureau for Unstable Urbanism, Film and Video Umbrella, London

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
Arts Council Norway
KORO (Public Art Norway)
Oslo Municipality
Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Nordic Culture Point
EEA Cultural Exchange Fund
Goethe-Institute

7.3) Networks:
a) local networks: PNEK

b) translocal networks: Syndicate mailing list, Bureau for Unstable Urbanism, e-kunst.

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:

Q: What are the most crucial sustainability issues for your organisation and its’ networks?
A: To maintain long term funding and a good level of project activity. Forecasting the future funding situation is difficult as it is unpredictable.

Q:What are the issues you would like to address in the meeting?
A: (1)It would be interesting for Atelier Nord to explore the possibility for ideas on common projects and for the projects to be financed by EU funding.
(2) A focus area for our activity is soft technology and live video, and it would be interesting to know if any of the others in the network are involved in this.
(3) Look at possibilities for a common web platform or database for the network
(4) Exchange information on activities and projects.

Q:Which topics are you interested to discuss more specifically: open source, alternative economics, art and renewable energy projects, festival / exhibition cooperations, residency exchanges, other?
A: Renewable energy projects.

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
Productframes (Norway)

2. MISSION:
Contemporary art in a migratory perspective

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
Art production, organising of public events

4. SCALE:
4.2) Part time – 2 people.

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
Studio space with editing facilities for video and sound, access to venue for public events (a ship)

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:

Organisation’s main website address – http://www.productframes.org
Main information exchange channels for your announcments – mailinglists: SPECTRE, NICE, kunst.no and Facebook.

7. NETWORKING:

7.1) Collaboration with:
Oslo University College, Faculty of Art and Design and KLOK research group,
KIT,Norwegian University of Technology and Science,
Oslo Open,
Nordic Black Theatre
Atelier Nord

a) Close collaboration – Nordic Black Theater

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
The Norwegian Arts Council
Norwegian Visual Artists Association

7.3) Networks:

a) local networks:
PNEK (co-founder) http://www.pnek.no

b) translocal networks:
NICE (co-founder)
CAVIC (Contemporary art and visual culture in education, Nordic-Balitc research network, started up a week ago) co-founder

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:
Q: What are the most crucial sustainability issues for your organisation and its’ networks?
A: We have worked on cultural sustainability, migratory issues a.o. through different productions and research

Q: What are the issues you would like to address in the meeting?
Which topics are you interested to discuss more specifically: open source, alternative economics, art and renewable energy projects, festival / exhibition cooperations, residency exchanges, other?
A: We are just starting a renewable energy project connected to urban development in Oslo as an art project, so this is what I am really interested to work on. We have looked at green architecture and recycling as two main strategies.

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
BALTAN Laboratories (the Netherlands)

2. MISSION:
BALTAN Laboratories initiates, supports and disseminates innovative research and development activities in the field of art, technology and culture. A two-year pilot initiative located in the SWA building in Strijp S in Eindhoven, BALTAN Laboratories is a first step towards a broader Art Science Lab in the former NatLab (Philips physics laboratory). BALTAN Laboratories actively pursues new collaborations between disciplines and acts as point of intersection for artists working with technology in Eindhoven and beyond.

We accomplish this mission through:
– the development of specific research projects in the field of art, technology and culture;
– the investigation, further development and promotion of the art and technology lab concept through practice;
– the development of new relationships between art and technology;
– the open and transparent dissemination and discussion of developed research, technologies and knowledge;
– the provision of facilities in Eindhoven for local and international creative practitioners to interact and innovate through the meeting of art and technology.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
Research, artist-in-residence programme, workshops, lectures, publications.

4. SCALE:
4.2) part time: 2 people

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
Laboratory and office space.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.2) Organisation’s main website address:
http://www.baltanlaboratories.org

6.3) Publication and info-channels:
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/baltanlaboratories
Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/baltanlaboratories
Vimeo – http://www.vimeo.com/user1007641

6.4) Main information exchange channels for announcements:
Contact database (internal), newsletter (own), Spectre, Nettime-nl.

7. NETWORKING:
7.1) Connectivity:

a) Close collaboration organisations:
Piksel (Norway)
Virtueel Platform (NL)
BAM (BE)
Flux-s festival (Eindhoven, NL)
MU (Eindhoven, NL)
Fontys Hogeschool (Eindhoven, NL)
Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, NL)
Vooruit (BE)

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
Constant (BE)
FoAM (BE)
Swiss Artists in Labs (CH)
Locus Sonus (FR)
Le Laboratoire (FR)
V2_ (NL)
Medialab Utrecht (NL)
Netherlands Media Art Institute (NL)
Medialab Prado (ES)
STRP Festival (NL)
Culture Lab, Newcastle University (UK)
iShed (UK)
iMAL (BE)
WORM (NL)
The Patching Zone (NL)
RIXC (LV)
Etc….

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
The City of Eindhoven
Brainport (regional funding)
SRE (regional funding)
Cultuurfonds Strijp-S
Mondriaan Foundation
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands

7.3) Networks:
[no networks mentioned]

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:
Q: What are the issues you would like to address in the meeting?
A: Open source, residency exchanges, lab exchanges, staff exchange…

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
Field Work (Denmark)

2. MISSION:
Amongst the many relations defining human existence the individual and collective relation to the environment and close surroundings is one of the most essential.
The cultivation, elaboration and even destruction of the environment are defining our culture and a central tool in the creation of national and social identities.
Field Work aims to investigate those relations by engaging directly with urban and rural landscapes, and reflect on contemporary perception and uses of it.
Field Work is Nis Rømer and Lise Skou.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
Critical art production, curating and organising

4. SCALE:
4.2) part time: 2 people

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
On demand or Ad Hoc – we use existing structures and institutions.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
[no answer]

7. NETWORKING:
7.1) Connectivity:
http://www.free-soil.org
http://www.crir.net
http://www.publik.dk
http://www.ngbk.de
http://www.futurefarmers.com
http://www.rum46.dk
http://kultivator.org/weblog
…not a full list, lots of links in free soil blog too

a) Close collaboration organisations:
http://www.odaprojesi.org

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
Danish Arts Council

7.3) Networks:
[no networks mentioned]

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:
[no answers]

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
ACCEA/NPAK (Armenia)

2. MISSION:
Promotion of “Cutting-Edge” contemporary experimental art in Armenia

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
Organizing group thematic exhibitions, which stimulate innovation and alternative approach, organizing annual festivals of “One Minute-One Shot” video art, organizing annual festival of theater on “One Square Meter Stage”, production of multi-media theatrical performances, assistance and production of “zero-budget” short and feature films.

4. SCALE:
4.1) full time: 6 people
4.2) part time: 5 people
4.3) volunteers: 15 people

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
1,400 m2 exhibition space, one small theater seating 135 persons, small art library with about 500 books and periodicals. No audio-visual equipment.
Office spaces (11 rooms), office and audio-visual equipment (computers, video projectors, DVD players, are getting old and are worn out. They need replacement).

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.1) Own server’s main URL: http://accea.info

6.2) Organisation’s main website address: http://www.accea.info

6.3) Publication and info-channels: We have recently started a NPAK group on Facebook. Others may come soon.

6.4) Main information exchange channels for announcements:
We communicate our programs by direct mail (local and international), as well as we post them on our website. At this time we have more than 100 visits per month to our web site and since April 2009 we have received close to 10,000 visits.

7. NETWORKING:

7.1) Connectivity:

a) Close collaboration organisations:
There are not any organizations in our type an caliber in Armenia. At one point we collaborated with “Gumri Biennale” group, which is a small “seasonal” group. It comes to life every 2 years, works for couple of months and stops until next time. The relationship did not last long.

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:
Anatolu Kulture in Turkey
Wato Tsereteli in Georgia

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
We have received no public funding during the 17 years of our existence. The only public support we have is the space, which has been provided to us in delapidated condition, but free of charge and for unlimited period.

a)private sponsors
We have received a number of small and large contributions during 17 years of our existence:
Robert Boghossian and Sons Fund
Jean and Albert Boghossians
Cafesjian Museum Foundation
Late Mr. Rouben Avanessian

All of the fundings have stopped due to the global financial crises. We are in extremely critical situation.

7.3) Networks:
We are not involved in any network.

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:

Q: What are the issues you would like to address in the meeting?
A: We have found ourselves in extremely critical situation. After 17 years of hard work, we are now face with serious threat of permanent closure. We have applied to the government (From Prime Minister down) with no result. We are trying international organizations. We hope we will be successful with Soros Foundation (Open Society Institute – Armenia). If we are not we do not know what will happen! Any help in the realm of directing us to international funding organizations will be great help.
There are many plans, but without funding all will remain on the shelves.

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
GeoAIR (Georgia)

2. MISSION:
GeoAIR organizes and supports international exchange projects with the goal of strengthening the Georgian and Caucasian art world, bringing together artists from different cultural backgrounds and finding relevant contexts for them to work in.
Besides this, GeoAIR stimulates and raises awareness and engagement with art and culture from this region. We work together with international individuals and organizations that share our goals.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
Organizing and supporting international exchange projects, organising public artist talks, building up an archive of contemporary art “Archidrome”, offering GeoAIR residency program (from April 2010)

4. SCALE:
4.1) full time: 3 coordinators, 1 residency manager (from April 2010),
4.2) part time: preject depended,
4.4) internship: we can not offer any paid internship, but we are always open for ideas and offers from students’ side.

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
GeoAIR space consists of two rooms, 50 square meter living space (with natural light, heating, electricity, kitchen and bathroom) and 10 square meter working space equipped with computer and internet connection. In working space there is and archive based on “Archidrome”.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.2) Organisation’s main website address: http://geoair.blogspot.com/

6.3) Publication and info-channels:
http://geoair.blogspot.com/
http://archidrome.blogspot.com/
http://georgianartistsarchidrome.blogspot.com/

6.4) Main information exchange channels for announcements: local mailing list, Oberlist mailing list.

7. NETWORKING:
7.1) Connectivity:

a) Close collaboration organisations:
Goethe Institut, Georgia
State Silk Museum, Georgia
Arci Gallery, Georgia
Georgian National Museum.Tbilisi Historical Museum – Carvasla, Georgia
Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Georgia
Apartment Project, Turkey
Stroom, the Hague, the Netherlands
Enough Room for Space, the Netherlands
Expodium Utrecht, the Netherlands

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:
New Art Union, Georgia
Berlinerpool, Germany
MoTa, Slovenia
BAS, Turkey

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
OSGF, Georgia
Fonds BKVB, the Netherlands
NCDO, the Netherlands
European Cultural Foundation, the Netherlands

7.3) Networks:

b) translocal networks:
Berlinerpool, Germany – member
artnews.org, Germany – member
Rhiz.eu, the Netherlands – member
Artcitizens.net, Turkey – member

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:

Q: What are the most crucial sustainability issues for your organization and its’ networks?
A: Collaboration, cooperation, dialogue with neighbor countries and beyond.

Q: What are the issues you would like discuss in the meeting…
A: International exchange projects / exhibitions, residency exchange, cooperation; a collaborative process with institutions, organizations and culture producers to strengthen and extend the artistic foundation of the Caucasus area and to encourage and stimulate the exchange of knowledge and the production of significant cultural projects on long-term basis.

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
Codeep / MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art (Slovenia)

2. MISSION:
To establish the first Artist in Residency program in Ljubljana, with regular activity and specific program profile;
to present creators within broad range of art practices but with focus on intermedia, visual and sound art and new forms of artistic language (livecinema,temporary installations);
to produce artworks with international artists;
to become a critical/ reflective platform;
to encourage active participation of young people in production of artworks;
to establish sustainable relations between home and foreign productions;
to develop a regular artist exchange network with partner institutions, thus creating a continuous interaction between countries involved;
to research ‘transitory’ and ‘temporary’ artwork as a logical result of our specific background (on a macro and micro level);
to promote alternative, specific art, but aiming to reach broader audience;
to discuss art, to talk about art with artists, theoreticians, producers etc.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
1. art productions,
2. organising of festivals (Sonica, Spring Festival),
3. hosting artists residency programmes,
4. organising of public events,
5. publications.

4. SCALE:
4.1) full time: 2 people
4.2) part time: 3 people
4.3) volunteers: 5 people

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
Residency appartment/ temporary studio
AudioStudio (Codeep)
Production Studio
Mediatheque as part of Jakopic Gallery owned by City Museum (collaboration project Mediatheque)
Nevertheless, we don’t have our own venue for events.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.2) Organisation’s main website address
http://www.mota-atom.org
http://www.martinbricelj.com

6.3) Publication and info-channels: Twitter – http://twitter.com/motaatom, MySpace – http://www.myspace.com/robovox_yourvoice, Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/motamuseum

6.4) Other main information exchange channels for announcments – mailing list.

7. NETWORKING:

7.1) Connectivity:
Zavod projekt Atol, Fundacija Igor Zabel, Aksioma, LokalPatriot, Pina, Kibla, Zavod K6/4, Animateka, Kino ·i”ka, Mestni Muzej, Robert Salon, StripCore, ·KUC Buba, Gala Hala, Menza pri Koritu, Kulturni Inkubator, Oko/Uho.

a) Close collaboration organisations:
ICA London, InterSpace Sofia, Sabaw Manila, Monochrom Vienna, Protok Banja Luka, Cenatus London, Musikprotokoll Graz, Dispatch Belgrade, GeoAir Tbilisi, ArsLonga Paris, PIST Istanbul, Cimatics, Sound:Frame Vienna, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Kunsthaus Graz…

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:
CTM Berlin, MUTEK Montreal, Unsound Krakow, Elektra Montreal.

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations:
British Council, Institut Charles Nodier, Goethe Institut, ERSTE Fundation

b) private sponsors:
Adria, Sonce.Net, Grad Kodeljevo, Megaklik, Simobil

7.3) Networks:

a) local networks: Codeep.org

b) translocal networks: ICAS- International Cities of Advanced Sound (member), MoTA Transition, MoTA Asia (co-founder).

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
The Interdisciplinary Art Group SERDE (Latvia)

2. MISSION:
SERDE is public association and the mission statement of the organization is to develop the regional and international collaboration between different culture fields, organizations and professionals.
SERDE residencies centre is a platform for international and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Our aim is to encourage professionals creative development and long-term cooperation through participation in residencies programes.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
SERDE’s main activities contribute on exchange between culture, science and education fields organizing residencies, workshops, expeditions, seminars, lectures, presentations etc.

4. SCALE:
4.1) full time: 2 people
4.3) volunteers: 8 people

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
SERDE has 3 studios and conference room for meetings, seminars and presentations. Studios have equipment for work with wood, metal and ceramic etc.

Conference room is easy to transform for working space. It has broadband Internet connection, PC with Open Office and basic digital editing suite, sound system and video projector. Specific tools residents has to bring with them.

SERDE has an open air ceramic kiln on the island of river Tebra. It is about 100 metres from the residencies centre.

Especially designed tent is available for the outdoor performances. It is suitable for the video projections, exhibitions, shows etc.

Residents work and live in the same building. SERDE centre has 6 rooms, each room has 2 beds but it is easy to transform to single room. Few rooms is possible to transform to family apartments and add an extra bed. For short term residencies, meetings, seminars we have possibilities to host up to 20 people. Common kitchen and cooking possibility is available in the same building.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.2) Organisation’s main website address: http://www.serde.lv

7. NETWORKING:

7.1) Connectivity:

a) Close collaboration organisations:
RIXC, LLMC, NOASS, ARTELIS, LAUSKA

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:
JTI, NOMADI, LMA (Academy of Art), LKA (Academy of Culture), Pedvale open air art museum, Klaipeda culture and comunication centre

7.2) Funding:
VKKF, City councils (Riga, Liepaja, Roja, Aizpute), UNESCO

a) public / private foundations
Latvian fondation

b) private sponsors
SIA PARVI

7.3) Networks:

a) local networks:
Association of NGOs

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:
[no answer]

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
New Theatre Institute of Latvia – NTIL (Latvia)

2. MISSION:
To promote the contemporary performig arts in its diverse forms (contemporary theatre, dance, performance, and new circus) both locally and internationally. NTIL strives to expand the creative boundaries of Latvian theatre production and theatrical expression, thereby assuring professional excellence and the freedom to explore new ideas. NTIL focuses its work on professional theatre artists and students, as well as wide-reaching audience.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
Festivals (International Fetsival of Contemporary Theatre Homo Novus, Festival of Experimental Theatre Homo Alibi), production, international collaboration, information, professional development, reflection.

4. SCALE:
4.1) full time: 2 people,
4.2) part time: 2 people,
4.3) volunteers: yes, during the festival,
4.4) internship: yes, we practise internships, also international.

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
Office, library of books/video, storage, shared venue for public events.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.2) Organisation’s main website address: http://www.theatre.lv

6.3) Publication and info-channels: Twitter – http://twitter.com/homonovus

6.4) Main information exchange channels for announcments: mailinglists

7. NETWORKING:

7.1) Connectivity:

a) Close collaboration organisations: locally – theatres: Daile, New Riga Theatre, Valmiera etc., independent companies, other cultural NGOs in the field of performing arts,

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations: cultural NGOs of other fields than performing arts,

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
Ministry of Culture, Riga City, Culture Capital Foundation, embassies and foreign foundations (French Cultural Centre, Goethe Institute etc), EU Culture programmes

b) private sponsors
AB bank, RE&RE construction company + several in-kind sponsorships (airlines, hotels, publishing houses, sound&light companies etc)

7.3) Networks:

a) local networks: Association of Cultural NGOs – co-funder

b) translocal networks: SPACE (Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe) – co-funder, Prague Quadrennial project Intersection – co-funder, FIT (Festivals in Transition) – member, Theorem – co-funder, Temps D’Image – member

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:

Q: What are the issues you would like to discuss in the meeting?
A: Fetsival/exhibition cooperations, translocal practises.

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art – LCCA (Latvia)

7.1) Connectivity:

a) Close collaboration organisations:
Laikmetīgās mākslas centrs Viļņā
Laikmetīgās mākslas centrs Tallinā
Latvijas Nacionālās mākslas muzejs
Latvijas Mākslas akadēmija
Rīgas galerija
Francijas kultūras centrs
Britu padome
Dānijas kultūras centrs
Ziemeļvalstu informācijas birojs
Mākslas centrs Apolonija, Strasbūra, Francija
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Somija
Mūsdienu mākslas muzejs Lentos Austrijā
Moderna Museet Stokholmā
IASPIS
NIFCA
Laikmetīgās mākslas muzejs VAL / MAR Francijā
Starptautiskā fotoaģentūra MAGNUM
Jauno mediju kultūras centru “RIXC”
Viļņas Laikmetīgas mākslas centru
Tallinas Laikmetīgas mākslas centru
Igaunijas mākslas muzeju KUMU
Jauno mediju kultūras centru “RIXC”
Igaunijas Mākaslas vēstures institūts;
Lietuvas Nacionālās mākslas galerija;

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:
Jaunā teātra institūts
Liepājas Pedagoģijas akadēmija
Starptautiskais kino centrs
Latvijas vēstniecība Stokholmā
Gētes institūts Rīgā
Kunsthalle Zurich, Šveice
Kunsthalle Basel
Salzburger Kunstverein, Austrija
University of Art and Design, Helsinki
Fonds regional d’art contemporain de Picardie, Francija
Skuč galerija Ļubļanā
Laikmetīgās mākslas muzejs Bordo, Francija
Pro Helvetia, Lucerna
Mākslas centrs Platform Garanti Stambulā
“Apollonia”, European Art Exchanges
apexart, Ņujorka
Vidusjūras Fotogrāfijas centrs, Korsika
Pasaules Bankas mākslas programma;
galerija Heden, Hāgā, Nīderlande;
Sanktgallenas Kunsthalle, Šveice;
Edinburgas Universitāte;
Trento Universitāte, Itālija,
MACBA, Laikmetīgās mākslas muzejs Barselonā;
Laikmetīgās mākslas centru Tranzit.hu, Ungārija
Wyspa mākslas institūts, Gdaņska, Polija;
Laikmetīgās mākslas muzejs Bordo, Francija.
De Appel, Amsterdama, Nīderlande;
Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Kopenhāgena;

7.2) Funding:
VKKF
Rīgas dome
Francijas Kultūras centrs
Nordic culture fund
EU programma „Cultue”
Aizkraukles banka
Swedbanka
Frame
Nifca
Somijas vēstniecība
Gētes institūts
LR kultūras ministrija

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1. NAME and COUNTRY:
Arts and Culture project NOASS (Latvia)

2. MISSION:
NOASS’ goal is to participate in the formation of the Latvian and European cultural environment.

3. FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:
1. “Waterpieces” Contemporary Arts and Video Festival
2. Noass Video Art Database and Archive
3. Naive art museum of Latvia
4. Floating culture centre Noass and Betanovuss
5. International Artists in residencies programme
6. Nordic and Baltic audio visual art network.
7. International Cooperation:
TEH Trans Europe Halls- network
EU voluntary service
8. The Association of Non-Governmental Contemporary Culture Organisations

4. SCALE:
4.1) full time: 2 people
4.2) part time: 4 people
4.3) volunteers: 10 people
4.4) internship: (are you collaborating with some universities, can students work in your organisation for obtaining practical skills in org. management, or other ways?)
Yes.

5. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
Venue for public events, office space, libarary with books and audio/video archive, residency house, museum space.

6. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
6.2) Organisation’s main website address: http://www.noass.lv

6.4) Other main information exchange channels for announcements: TEH, RELAB.

7. NETWORKING:
7.1) Connectivity:

b) Other organisations, indirect collaborations:
The Association of Non-Governmental Contemporary Culture Organisations, Latvia

7.2) Funding:

a) public / private foundations
KKF, LKM, City council Riga.

b) private sponsors
Re&Re

7.3) Networks:
a) local networks:
The Association of Non-Governmental Contemporary Culture Organisations, Latvia

b) translocal networks:
TEH Trans Europe Halls – network

8. SUSTAINABILITY / OTHER:

Q: What are the issues you would like to address in the meeting?
A: Residency exchanges, exhibition cooperations