| ASSETS
- College students
- "Creative Class" environment
- Media Procedures
- WPVM ? (Low power FM radio)
- Broad band access
- Rural broadband initiative
- Charter Cable
- COL
- Artist Resource Center
- Community Resource Center
- Blue Ridge Community Center
- Teleconference center
- Museum & Libraries
- AB Tech
- Fine Arts
- Many new profession performance arts groups
- Diana W. Theatre - Community outreach
- Artists /Art Council
- Clubs & performance spaces
- Kellogg Center on UNCA campus
- UNCA
- Distance learning programs
- YMI
- Blue Ridge Motion Pictures
- Asheville Film Commission
- Film festivals
- Institute at Biltmore
- Ashville High Schools
- County Schools
- Charter Schools
- Local foundations/state fairs
- Hospitals (MAHEE, M.St.J.)
- City of Asheville
- Chamber of Commerce
- Land of Sky Regional Council
- Citizen-Times
- MCED/Advantage West/ARC (regional/chartered by State)
- Growing independent media sectors
- Bookstore
- Leaf, etc.
- NAACP radio
- Literary/independent publishers
- Congressman Taylor - knowledge board
- For-profit training in business
- Non-profit organizations
- Pro-active community
- Retirees and idle wealthy
- Volunteers
- Gay Community/Diversity
- Indigenous cultures (Cherokee)
- Tolerance
- Super computer at Weathner Ctr.
- Intangibles - the idea fits with our environmental and QOL
values - stress of economic change is opening doors to new ideas.
VISION
- A place downtown where people can play, make ads, make music,
rent equipment, make messages (political, social, etc.), learning
new things.
- Should not compete with commercial production facilities
- Large space with room for galleries, classes, production of
multimedia creations
- It becomes self-sustaining
- Place to show works (tourism)
- Incubator for ideas and low cost productions ---art or commerce
- Hub for talent that moves in Asheville
- Independent media center -- helps the story be told
- Public space (physical space) that does not marginalize grass
roots, mediation, civil society
- Space for diverse groups to produce and show work (but the
diverse groups don't talk to each other or they fight -- Center
should address this!)
- Creative arts center
- Faculty can come in and teach citizens
- Production facility and office space, tools, training, visiting
artists, artists in residence
- Cathedral and the Bazaar - Book
- Cyclotron - spins off partnerships, incubates projects, education
entrepreneurs -the money side link to mall kiosks!
- Export our creativity
- Break down barriers between art forms via new technology
- Economic development - not the traditional model but the creative
commons generating innovation
- Economic development and job creation
- Small business start up
- Development engine for grants and investment
- Training and mentoring
- Mobile technology bns? - gets out to the country/mountains
- Media assistance for non-profits
- Cable broadcast - transmit ideas to community
- Low power FM
- Routing capabilities
- Broadcast infrastructure gives skills/jobs to geeks/engineers
- Restores local infrastructure for communication that serves
the public interest, controlled by non-profits.
- Public perception about media (like the affordable housing
campaign).
- Show horse/race horse/work horse - "Center for the Gazelles
in the Media Arts World"
- MM center in Adelaide, Australia - PC's on the sidewalk. (Changes
perception of Asheville readiness)
Misc. Statements
Who do we serve? "The Map" is broad/regional/inclusive
Flexibility that an independent entity can have
We write the code to - it's an art and intensely creative!
Media democracy - public source code enabled rapid development
of Internet - Map center showing support public/community resource
We should not have to pay for this! It is a democratic right.
We create internet technologies
Internet - rough consensus and working code - stay flexible
Geography complicated by who's in the franchise footprint |
