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   [Date]: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 03:17:09 -0800
   [From]: "fran ilich" <zoe@telnor.net>
     [To]: "Cultural Exchange via Internet" <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Censorship

hi,

i agree with many of the comments expressed here. but i would include other
kind of censorship, that is not exactly censorship, the marvelous art of
exclusivity & exclusion, which i guess is one of the favourite practices in
Mexico. there are many cultural cliques that mainly they belong to the
mainstream bureucratic art. but one needs only go to some of the so called
cultural institutes and cultural centers to find out that as usual, the real
action is somewhere else.

an example, when at laboratorios cinem=E1tik we were working to put together
the 1st cyberculture festival in latin-america, we decided to go to some
cultural centers in tijuana, some where run under federal, regional or local
governments (and budgets). everyone wanted to have their cut in this event,
show on glosy fliers their logo. but when the ptractical or economic
necessities were discussed they would say that there is no personnel and
budget and when we said "oh, then we're sorry. we thought we would work
together on this". and when they noticed we were serious and we really didnt
mind using other public venues like clubs, caf=E9s, alternative videolounges,
or the like. in other words we would care for them, only if there was some
kind of cooperation towards creating real work, not the usual power game,
they would offer to give the magnanimous quantities of maybe 300 dollars.

needless to say this is worst than censorship. this is serious.

nos vemos en el futuro.

ilich.
http://cinematik.com