What is the nowadays role of the journalist and artist? What do they have in common. About taking position in a fast changing, non transparant world.

1. Art & Journalism = …
Albert van der Kooij
Academy of Pop Culture

2. Today
• The Academy of Pop Culture
• The World is changing….
• Art & Journalism
• IslandCQ

3. The Academy of Pop Culture
• The movie about what we are or what we are
not…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDKM7wFg
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4. The Academy of Pop Culture
• Two bachelor degrees: Music & Design
• One program/Curriculum
• Based on personal, professional and artistic
development
• Practice based
• Everybody is different and has different things
to learn

5. Basics for our actions
• On the corners of the triangle you will find the charactaristics
of of our Academy. In the middle the underlying values
Frontline/N
iche
Sustainability
Trust
Authenticity
Grass roots
Social Regional/International
economic (glocal)

6. The Academy of Pop Culture
• Florian Wolff: sustainable artist
http://florianwolff.com/blog/new-year-new-shows/
http://www.entertainandsustain.nl/
• Wild Street Parade Amsterdam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffe-8uWiJZU
• Thomas Azier went to work in Berlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edf9Yvz-b5U&feature=related
• Henri Kuipers went to Eritrea helping a music School
http://avp4eritrea.wordpress.com/
• Inge Grupstra designed a bench presented on the famous Milano Fair
http://www.pietheineek.nl/nl/collectie/collectie-nieuw/een-balk-bank/gelebank

7. The World Is Changing
• Glocalisation
• Act local think global
• Social networks
• New networks based on common interests
• Development of China and India is the fear of
our economists

8. Technology is Changing
• Fast technological development
• Internet
• Knowledge based development
• Innovation and complex matters
(environment, food problem, energy, …)
• More knowledge than we ever can learn
• The consumer as producer

9. Art is Changing
• How can arts contribute to society and
business in a social economic way?
• Artists are not supposed to act in de side line
• Intercultural thinking and acting

10. Education is Changing
• Interdisciplinarity as new standard for solving
problems
• Student centered education
• Prepared to solve problems of tomorrow
• Entrepreneurship
• Internationalisation

11. Media & Journalism
• The radical changes in technology, and society
necessarily needs rewriting media education.
• It not only means that we have to teach the
use of digital technology instead of analog
technology
• but we necessarily have to change our way of
thinking about teaching media and journalism
as collaboration with the audience

12. Art & Journalism
• Both researching
• Finding the truth
• And communicate the truth
• Translating the message into design
• Involved and engaged
• Not on the sideline, but participating
• Storytellers

13. Art & Journalism
• Photo journalism: World Press Photo, is it art or
news?
• It is a perception and observation
• Finding the right form to tell the story
Whereas journalism provides a view on the world,
as it 'really' is, art often presents a view on the view,
as an act of reflection.
But is journalism objective?

14. Art & Journalism
• Wiki leaks
Is it activism, art or new way of journalism?
New media offers the possibility to show the
unseen

15. Collaboration between Art & Journalists
Grass Root Media
• To cover the voices of people on the street during the
Republican National Convention, and let you directly plug
in, the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition and the Indymedia
Network have build their own newsroom: everyday, they
produce a newspaper, a television show, a radio webstream
and a website with up-to-the-minute reports, videos and
photographs about the RNC.
• To help showcase this work, the Gigantic Art Space has
offered these independent journalists their gallery. From
August 19 through RNC, the Independent Media Infoshop
at GAS/gigantic artspace will serve as an Independent
Media Infoshop for a public hungry for truth.

16. Art & Journalism
• The Transparency Granate as imagination
A piece of art (?) and technics by Julian Oliver:
I believe quality journalism has never been so
important as it is today yet at the same it's never
been so threatened, both in and out of a democratic
context. Given great reductions to the freedom of
the press recently it's only natural that we see them
adopt guerilla tactics - especially given new
discovery vectors opened up by digital
communications.

17. The Transparancy Granate
• the Transparency Grenade contains 'just' a tiny
computer, a microphone and a powerful
wireless antenna. The Transparency Grenade
fights against the lack of corporate and
governmental transparency. It captures
network traffic and audio at the site of closed
meetings and anonymously streams the data
to a dedicated server
http://transparencygrenade.com/

18. Art & Journalism
• hyperlocal citizens' media project
• Master's students at Northwestern University
documented the building of GoSkokie.com, a
community news site they built using
primarily citizen-contributed content to cover
a nearby suburb.
A project about citizen participation and
democratizing media

19. IslandCQ http://islandcq.nl
• Island Creative Quarantine is an international,
interactive meeting place between students,
teachers, scientists and artists from the
various partner universities from Finland,
Latvia, Hungary and the Netherlands.
• IslandCQ researches the rapidly changing
world, from the perspectives of art,
technology, ecology, humanity, and society.
The goal is to formulate new definitions and
strategies for a sustainable future.
• http://islandcq.nl

20. IslandCQ
• 2005 Demands of the Isle of Ameland
(Wadden sea) and the local government
– New ways of sustainable tourism
– Profiling Ameland as Isle of culture and innovation

21. IslandCQ
– Build a semi permanent village that fits in the
landscape
– Bring together scientists, artists, young talent
and entrepreneurs
– Let them develop new innovative products
– Connect the activities and products to the local
environment
– Central themes: PLAY, Sustainability

22. IslandCQ
After
• 3 presentations, try outs
• 3 workshops in Tampere
• 1 in Liepaja
We decided to keep it small

23. IslandCQ 2010
• 50 Students worked for 6 days in workshops
on interactive installations, documentarys,
movies, websites
• 4 nationalities exchanged and encountered
• And connected their work to Ameland
• …the landscape and the people

24. IslandCQ Newshub
Contribution of the College of Business & Communication

25. Project Covering IslandCQ
• First, it focuses on news and other genres of
journalism as a service to be sustained rather
than a product to be sold, as Jeff Jarvis
suggests. (2010.)
• Second, while covering the events and
preparing stories students tried out and
played with several free online applications to
discover them as new tools for journalism.

26. Covering IslandCQ
• Students tried to discover the other participants
of the IslandCQ and the inhabitants of Ameland
as information sources and as partners in content
providing process.
The results were interviews put together in a Prezi
presentation:
http://prezi.com/otg1w8tf1jul/covering-island-cq/

27. IslandCQ other results from Hungarian
Workshops
• IslandCQ on public TV in Hungary! Item of 7
minutes
Two students were invited to tell about their
experiences at Ameland:
http://videotar.mtv.hu/Videok/2010/12/01/17/
Mediaguru_2010_december_1_.aspx
00:00:45 – 00:06:28
• Blog about the program at Tumblr:
http://islandcq.tumblr.com/archive

28. IslandCQ
• Some other products
Latvian contribution: The Flipbook, based on interviews with
the local people about the threat of the rising sealevel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6B9xPDjHYw&feature=pl
ayer_embedded
Finnish workshop: Ameland 2020
http://www.islandcq.nl/ameland2020/index.html
Is it art or journalism?

29. IslandCQ 2012
• Edition this year in Latvia
• The theme: Privacy, Transparancy and Media
We will go to:
http://vimeo.com/29362283

30. IslandCQ 2013
• Next stop:
Hungary…