New Media Art/New Funding Models

Rockefeller Foundation,
02 December 2000, USA

New Media Art/ New Funding Models report investigates the current state of funding for new media artists. The emphasis is on the support structures for innovative creative work that utilizes advances technologies as the main vehicle for artistic practice.

Twenty-three individual artists/innovators, organizers, directors, and foundation program officers involved in the international new media arts community were interviewed. Participants were asked a number of questions regarding how they frame new media art, concerns from the field, funding histories, and concepts for funding models. Several participants are involved in new initiatives that bridge the for-profit and non-profit funding sectors including artists' research centers, innovative business models, new approaches for traditional funding sources, incubators, venture funding, and leveraging community.

http://www.mediaactioncenter.org/files/New_Media_Arts_New_Funding_Models.pdf