On 24-26 July 2008, the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), in partnership with ISEA2008 (International Symposium for Electronic Arts), co-hosted a mini-summit on government support for new media arts practice in Singapore.
The event brought together 54 artists, researchers and policy makers from 26 countries to develop an overview of the key issues impacting on new media arts practice and to create a policy framework and some key points for action. The group represented 10 Asian countries, 12 European countries and four observer countries. Approximately 20 percent of the delegates were from government agencies.
The mini-summit linked back to the 2004 mini summit co-hosted by IFACCA, the Arts Council of Finland and m-cult which coincided with ISEA2004 and focused on policies to support media arts and new media culture. Debate at the 2004 mini summit resulted in the publishing of the 'Helsinki Agenda',which outlined the values of new media culture, set out key principles for new media arts policies, and made recommendations for further action. It also linked to The Delhi Declaration of a new context for new media, a meeting of an ‘International Working Group on New Media Culture’ hosted by the Open Cultures Network – a network created by the Waag Society, Amsterdam, Sarai-CSDS Delhi and Public Netbase, Vienna.
In preparation to the 2008 mini summit IFACCA and ASEF initiated a D’Art research question to identify policy issues and to locate key people to invite to the mini summit.
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