Les mobile festivals ont fondamentalement deux objectifs :
1/ Découvrir de nouvelles formes et pratiques artistiques
2/ Explorer les nouvelles tendances du marché, de nouveaux produits, les nouveaux usages
Les spécificités de chacun tiennent à l’accent mis sur l’un ou sur l’autre de ces objectifs. La grande nouveauté par rapport aux festivals de courts-métrages se situe bien dans cette ambition de prospective. Il est néanmoins curieux que ces évènements soient seulement ponctuels. En tant que festivals, ils encouragent cette prospective et la rendent accessible au grand public. Dés lors, la question glisse vers un autre petit dilemme : faut-il privilégier la prospective ou la communication ? Est-ce une fausse question ? L’un est-il souhaitable sans l’autre ? Evidemment non. Mais le festival est-il la forme la plus pertinente pour ce mix prospective/communication. Pas forcément. Alors pour quel modèle peut-on opter ? La réponse est là, quelque part, sur le site de la Mobile asia competition (voilà un nom bien old school ; ) :
All participants are selected and invited by Art Center Nabi located in Seoul, Korea. In order to cover a wide range of interests and identities across the Asian region, Mobile Asia expects diverse agencies ranging from artists, audiences, scholars, professionals, activists, to policy-makers to participate. The main projects are initially designed by Art Center Nabi although the detailed execution and direction of the projects will be modified and further developed throughout the planning process in the pilot year.
1. Project development: Mobile Asia endeavors to support and present
creative energies and productions in new media culture and youth cul-
ture in Asian region.
- Mobile Asia Competition 2006: Mobile Asia will host Mobile Asia
Competition 2006 to reflect upon the mobile cultures of Asian region
through creative works and ideas by artists and media-makers.
- Exchange Program: Mobile Asia will promote cultural exchange
among cultural groups and individual artists among Asian countries
and/or between Asian region and non-Asian region.
- Exhibition: Mobile Asia will present exhibitions based on collective
curation and/or broader thematic approaches to promote critical
thoughts and alternative aesthetics that are relevant and unique to
contemporary Asian experiences.
2. Information Mapping & Research: Mobile Asia operates as an idea
generator to critique the current trend and explore the future of
communication technologies and cultures in Asian region.
- Feature, the magazine: Mobile Asia will publish Feature, an on-line
magazine to address the multiple facets of new media and youth
cultures in Asia by attracting a wide range of voices from journalists,
scholars, and practitioners.
- M-Flow,the blog: Mobile Asia will introduce updated, grounded
writings centering on Asian cultures and media trends addressed by
a body of selected bloggers from all over the world.
- Research: Mobile Asia will publish in-depth research reports and
book series based on collaborative, long-term studies of commonal-
ities and differences among new media experiences and youth
culture in Asian region.
- Conference: Mobile Asia organizes a conference dedicated to an
exchange of academic studies of new media and youth culture in the
Asian region, an examination of the role of Asian culture and identities
in the global communities, and a suggestion of policy initiatives to
enhance cultural empowerment for the public within Asia and beyond.
3. Network & Collaboration
- All the activities and projects above take place through collective
frameworks. We induce participation from a wide range of creative
agencies including artists, professionals, cultural workers, policy-
makers, etc. to share resources, information, and opinions. This way,
Mobile Asia will grow as an ever-evolving entity that embraces inputs
from diverse positions and visions.
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