Allied Media Conference 2008
- When: Fri, Jun 20 thru Sun, Jun 22, 2008
- Where: McGregor Conference Center (495 Ferry Mall) and Community Arts Building on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit.
- Why: The Allied Media Conference cultivates media strategies for a more just and creative world. It is the primary point of intersection in the U.S. for alternative media makers and committed social justice activists.
Two Toledo-area residents, Jen Angel and Jason Kucsma, co-founded Clamor Magazine, which existed from November 1999 to December 2006.
January 12, 2004 Toledo Talk posting : Clamor Magazine, a local success story.
Clamor Magazine's mission is to provide a media outlet that reflects the reality of alternative politics and culture in a format that is accessible to people from a variety of backgrounds. Clamor exists to fill the voids left by mainstream media. We recognize and celebrate the fact that each of us can and should participate in media, politics and culture. We publish writing and art that exemplifies the value we place on autonomy, creativity, exploration, and cooperation. Clamor is an advocate of progressive social change through active creation of political and cultural alternatives.
The origins of the Allied Media Conference, by Jason Kucsma
The initial “Zine Conference 1999” was a day-long conference focusing on why people make zines and what effect their zine-making has on the world. What started as a fairly elite subcultural get-together has blossomed into a grassroots resource for people creating independent media in all formats. While we appreciated the need for a gathering that fostered cross-pollination within the zine subculture, we ultimately wanted to make the conference more accessible to a variety of independent media makers – not just zinesters.
In 2002, Jen Angel and I partnered with Joshua Breitbart (founding member of Rooftop Films – Brooklyn, NY) to form Allied Media Projects (AMP), a non-profit organization. The creation of AMP brought about yet another name change and the Allied Media Conference was born as a way of including even more independent media makers who might not identify their work as “underground” or strictly “publishing.”
So now every year in June, hundreds of the most passionate people from the world of independent media converge for the Allied Media Conference. If you're looking to build new networks or find new approaches to independent media, this is the place.
2008 will be the second year the AMC has been held in Detroit. In previous years, the AMC was held at Bowling Green State University. I enjoyed the Saturday session I attended in 2005. You get to meet a lot of fascinating people working on interesting projects.
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