The role new media plays in contemporary culture and globally. ICT contemporary culture as its being built currently.
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Monica Nerula is part of the Raqs Media Collective and a co-initiator of the Sarai Programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Delhi. She is the coordinator of the Media Lab.
delhi declaration: agenda developed in delhi, sarai, working meeting of an international practitioners
why speak of culture?
“if development is seen not as growth in gdp or increases in object
as an enhancement of the cultural basis of people…
we need first to ask what necessary conditions of embedding of cultures; protocols and social paradigms; of nesting new media if it is to play a vital role
a new media culture is a set of practices which basis itself on communication; accross & within societies
often inflected by dynamics of economic and political power: social & cultural capital
digital divide, but more complex
-it’s not just about access as much as it is about differential communicative entitlement
-you can have an open source communication system but without an extension into daily life it can remain inactive
-media based practices depend a lot more on the existence of transmitting and receiving divices
gather all our network to produce meaningful and enjoyable signals
provocation, pleasure, plentitude, enquiry
different durations and frequencies
practice & time
in south asia express a healthy diversity in the face of formal ip
rather than having every culutural good available for one time sale
it places imparatives whithing a larger space giving/sharing
remix/repurpose characterize instants of applied modernity
where legality meets illegality and transgression
resiliant thinking which takes the above besides collaboration
in a broader sense especially over long duration collaborative cultural work is necessary; what we make today is collaborative material for the future
needed: freedom of speech, increased mobility of media/words/visuals
needed : open sharing, wide developing of approaches, mix and usage of cultural resources/ideas
they construct intermedia processes, co-exist in certain spaces some which are formal some are informal, located between and accross disciplines, expressed in a tangential relationship to the requirements of legality
recognition that all new media processes new context media, instances of what hapens when a range of comm practices (artists & telecomm) take on different recombinant possibilities
continuous renewal of conceptual field of context in order to enable
think about combining new of today and new of yesterday
priviliging is unmindful of ecology of media landscape and existing relationship between practices
draw strenghts from every day collaborations
all practitioners bring together markers of history/cultural/spacial/emmerging traditions
able to available a neighborhood of affinities
we need to work with understanding necessary difficulties of translation before we claim understanding; what we do not know, before we can claim mutual undersatnding; access to materials research (sharing)
delhi declaration endorses a plurality of ways of media uses: aesthetic, recursive, social, etc.
the commons constituted grow, no masterplan, overall design
ethic of collegial criticism across boundaries of tastes/disciplines/cultural
diverse commons, different modes, dissolution
agreement value of common itself
practice of a network culture: listening and speaking
time to move beyond mutual recognition; first wave new media practices
clique of cliques
openness, work with difficulties, language (important question)
how to build a network of networks
granting access in the global south/north
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