NAMAC Celebrates 25th Anniversary!

The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) was founded in 1980 by an eclectic group of media arts centers that realized they could strengthen their social and cultural impact by working as a united force. Their idea was as bold as it was simple: to create a national organization that would provide support services to its institutional members and advocate for the field as a whole. Since its founding, NAMAC has worked to raise the profile and influence of the media arts on behalf of its ever-expanding membership.

Collectively, NAMAC's members provide a wide range of services in support of independent media, including education, production, exhibition, distribution, collection-building, preservation, criticism and general advocacy. Members include media arts centers, production facilities, university-based programs, community technology centers, museums, film festivals, media distributors, film archives, after-school programs, community access TV stations and individuals working in the field. Combined, these organizations serve approximately 400,000 artists and other media professionals nationwide.

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Digital Scrapbook Project

Before you pack your bags for Philadelphia, look through your photo albums and archives and select a few choice visual mementos to contribute to a digital scrapbook of the history of the independent media arts field. This work in progress will be added to during the conference. We encourage conference attendees to bring scanned photographs, flyers, posters, buttons, t-shirts, important documents, letters, short video clips and other ephemera. These images and clips will be incorporated into a digital timeline of the field on site at the hotel during the conference. Electronic files are preferred. Please be sure to accurately identify title and date images. Don't forget to include any photo credits!

Keep an eye on this section of the website for more instructions about sending files electronically in advance of the conference.

Enjoy these blasts from the past.

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