7:30 Cloudland opened yesterday at Substation, despite the frenzy in the street. Glad you all could show up.
Thank you's to ISEA and the Modrian Foundation. Weng will introduce everyone and then Renee will speak about the project.
Each of the contributers will speak, then Weng will speak about why the project exists. Finally, we'll take questions from the audience.

7:46 Weng is introducing the contributors now.

7:48: Weng discusses the tech aspects about tonight's event. Comparing last evening's and tonight's lo-tech/hi-tech setup.

7:50 Renee thanks ISEA and the Mondrian Foundation. Thanks the web designers, without their help this site would not exist. 1.5 years of research we are finally able to present news. Development of the platform, the process, the technology.

Gate Foundation. Publication. Different artists in the Netherlands working in video over the past 25-30 years (hold up book).
Explains early work in Netherlands. exhibitions and conferences, such as Flight or Fight. 2006, became a Board Member of Gate Foundation. Priority to find new home for the artists archive, library of over 3,000 books donated by artists over the years.

The changes within the Gate Foundation. Gate Foundation was given as a gift to the Van Abbemuseum. Creation of a space different from Western hegemonic notions of discourse. Focus on cultural diversity.

Sebastian Lopez coined the name "n.e.w.s". Advisory board then traveled and met with curators and arts critics. Asking questions. How to make a significant contribution to discourse.

Technical
Web 2.0: Research into the types of technologies to help facilitate the new discourse. A folksonomy via a tag cloud. A CMS (content management system), focus on community oriented systems and open source options. 6.1 Drupal, a content management framework. Basic site functionality can be managed with little or no programming.

Renee is guiding the audience through the interface of the site.

Drupal (English "Drop", or "Dorp" in Dutch which means village)

Definition of curator is very broad. 10 contributors and one moderator. Thanks all contributors both present and abroad.