Multimedia Arts Collective
Independent Artist Organizers
Welcome to the Independent Artist Movement
New Media Initiative (NMI) Collective supports local and non-mainstream experimental and multimedia collaborations between artists. Often independent artists focus on the big lights, ignoring the potentiality of supporting local level networks, events and economies.
Places like Philadelphia, which was listed as the best city for the arts, are fertile ground where artists are already joining forces to construct an alternative--something more livable--through pooling in money, multimedia collaborations and
"I understand it as instead of seeing your progression as vertical--not just within your own field but also as an artist--see it as horizontal within the local and through collaboration across fields," says Aditi Joshi, activist and researcher, in commenting on the New Media Initiative's aims.
We are building infrastructure. In that design, we are constructing space and opportunities for independent artists so that they can operate as independent artists--not seeing that as some kind of in between state before being signed by a label or joining a dance company or theatre company.
NMI does this justice work through workshop salons, offering project support and hosting multimedia events--most notably Salon Lab at Warehouse Loft.
New Media Initiative stresses the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in the Arts as a way for artists to become resources for one another as well as a way to appeal to and connect various communities.
This form of integration showcases the orchestra of the Arts--the orchestra of Life.
"FROM THE LOCAL, STRENGTH. FROM THAT STRENGTH, CHANGE. FROM THAT CHANGE, LIFE--MORE ABUNDANTLY"
Places like Philadelphia, which was listed as the best city for the arts, are fertile ground where artists are already joining forces to construct an alternative--something more livable--through pooling in money, multimedia collaborations and
"I understand it as instead of seeing your progression as vertical--not just within your own field but also as an artist--see it as horizontal within the local and through collaboration across fields," says Aditi Joshi, activist and researcher, in commenting on the New Media Initiative's aims.
We are building infrastructure. In that design, we are constructing space and opportunities for independent artists so that they can operate as independent artists--not seeing that as some kind of in between state before being signed by a label or joining a dance company or theatre company.
NMI does this justice work through workshop salons, offering project support and hosting multimedia events--most notably Salon Lab at Warehouse Loft.
New Media Initiative stresses the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in the Arts as a way for artists to become resources for one another as well as a way to appeal to and connect various communities.
This form of integration showcases the orchestra of the Arts--the orchestra of Life.
"FROM THE LOCAL, STRENGTH. FROM THAT STRENGTH, CHANGE. FROM THAT CHANGE, LIFE--MORE ABUNDANTLY"