{"id":268,"date":"2010-10-27T18:26:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T18:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-10-27T18:26:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T18:26:36","slug":"the-cultural-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Day 3: The Cultural Void"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a bit of a slow day in comparison to the first two. I began by being sucked back into the real world, with 50+ emails that took my the whole morning to clear. In the afternoon we had a weird presentation by a guy called <a href=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.tv\/?id=-1198\">Peter Eyres<\/a> \u2013 loosely based around exploring \u2018alternative funding strategies\u2019. We split into two groups to role-play a future without public funding from two different perspective \u2013 the corporate whore and the \u2018social responsible\u2019 artist.<\/p>\n<p>I found myself in the \u2018socially responsible\u2019 group, but the idea of \u2018role-playing\u2019 this felt pretty impossible as it all felt just too close to home. We talked about compromise, being told what to do \/ working to a brief and funding \/ subsidising your practice by working other jobs so that your work can remain more autonomous \/ less commercial. Below are my notes from the session, which lasted most of the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/notes-small1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-271\" title=\"notes-small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/notes-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"845\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a bit of a slow day in comparison to the first two. I began by being sucked back into the real world, with 50+ emails that took my the whole morning to clear. In the afternoon we had a weird presentation by a guy called Peter Eyres \u2013 loosely based around exploring \u2018alternative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}