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Text <div id="section05"> = Bronac Ferran = Bronac Ferran is Head of Collaborative Arts at the Arts Council of England. The Unit is dedicated to supporting new ideas crossing disciplinary sectors, with a particular emphasis on the intersections between art, science and emergent technologies. She chaired the planning group for the CODE Conference in Cambridge in 2001 and is currently part of a governmental thinktank looking at links between Higher Education and the 'Creative Industries. She has been UK representative on a Council of Europe Advisory Group on Culture and New Technologies; a member of the BAFTA Interactive Arts subcommittee; a member of a DTI trade mission examining Art & Technology in Japan and commissioned the New Media Culture in Europe book published in 1999 in collaboration with the Dutch Virtual Platform. Her current projects include developing a new Interdisciplinary Fellowships scheme which will be launched jointly with the AHRB later this year; the Unit is also publishing a cd looking at ways in which artists are working in business contexts and is leading an action research initiative considering audiences for science and art in a series of different contexts. **Abstract** Do 'new media' and 'new technologies' produce new kinds of institutions or simply require a largescale adjustment of existing structures? What can we learn from the pattern of developments around Europe and beyond in relation to cultural institutions following new media agendas? Is the early adaptation stage - arguably distinguished by emergence of new network based practitices - now being superceded by a series of institutional responses which reinforce separateness and competition for resources rather than peer collaboration and sharing of ideas, issues etc? Is this an inevitable progression and are there ways in which the 'unstable' early practices/practitoners can be housed within institutional boundaries? What are the challenges and opportunities apparent here? Are there new models of support which need to emerge from institutions - including funding agencies, universities etc - to respond to the potential in terms of emergent cultural forms? If there is 'a centring tendency' in terms of response among institutions to new media (epitomised in developments in the built environment, research labs, media centres etc) how might this sit alongside notions of distributed media and networked practice? What are the implications in terms of responses of institutions in the future? </div>