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"Digital Directions" This report looks at the media arts field as it is constructing a critical future. The constituents making up NAMAC’s membership survived the arts funding reductions and shifts of the late 80s and early 90s. They not only survived, they emerged as vibrant sites of diverse media cultural practices at the end of the decade. They are now actively creating another future. This time it is a future that must contain places for their organizational missions, aesthetic and political values in the emerging global media culture.

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Dark and Bloody Ground Indeed An Appalachian Media Response to Robert Schenkkan’s play, “The Kentucky Cycle”, originally printed in Ace Magazine, Lexington, Kentucky, 1998.

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Cyberpunks in the White House From, Fractal Dreams: New Media in Social Context, Edited by Jon Dovey, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1996.

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Vox Pop In January 1990 I went to London for a year to work with the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Community Programme Unit (CPU). This is a semi-autonomous division within the BBC which gives the general public and independent producers access to BBC broadcast time, staff, and resources. The CPU is similar in principle, if not in practice, to public access production on cable television in the US.

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