OUR MISSION
Public Media Institute is a non-profit community-based grass roots arts and culture organization based in Chicago established in 2001. Our mission is to promote art, technology and social activism in order to transform people - socially and intellectually – through the production of festivals, events, exhibitions, community projects, artifacts and through the use of new technology and media.

Programming includes two international annual arts festivals, Version and Select Media Festival and Proximity Magazine, the international arts and culture journal that debuted  in April, 2008

Public Media Institute also produces artifacts and showcases emerging and established artists and cultural workers in the communities that they live in. Public Media Institute is committed to engaging the questions of our youth and residents of our communities through education, social activism, events and media. Our projects address the conditions in the participants’ lives and the networks that connect them locally and globally.