MISSION STATEMENT media and Dance network ( MAD)
MAD is a non-profit international network of media and dance festivals, centres, archives, and independent curators. Among the main goals of MAD are to serve as a resource to media & dance artists and programmers around the world and to establish an exchange of information and ideas in the field of media & dance.
As representatives of their national media & dance artists, MAD aspires to explore different possibilities for both curatorial and artistic collaborations worldwide. In this way, MAD hopes to promote genres such as dance screen, dance installations, dance-technology hybrids, and computer-based dance to new audiences.
GOALS
• To raise the profile of dance screen and other related genres on an international level in order to benefit the artists we represent. This will be done through the power of an international collective that supports all members activities.
• To provide information relating to dance screen events and opportunities to artists and curators through email networks, our website, and links across our members’ websites
• To open up discussion through an email group on the logistics of dance & media, presentation and promotion, archiving, audience development, screening technologies, workshops, competition structures etc
• To facilitate the development of discourse around dance and media through sharing theoretical articles, essays and programme notes and making them available through the MAD website
• To meet regularly at dance & media events in order to continue to develop our agenda and support the hosting festivals
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