CWL NEWS ARCHVE

This is the CWL News and Funded Project News Archive. It draws an informative picture on which stories relevant to the creative industries were happening during the AHRC-funded period of Creativeworks London between 2012 and 2016.

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Arts Council England and Innovate UK: Launch new programme supporting artists working with technology

A pilot aimed at supporting innovation across arts and technology has launched with three projects. This £1m programme will support practitioners working at the intersection of arts and technology, and has been set up by Arts Council England and Innovate UK.

Responding to rapid developments in technology and accompanying shifts in ways of working, the programme focuses support on groups of creative people who are exploring the place and impact of technology in our lives. It will explore how best to support new talent and ideas emerging across a range of fields from making to bio-tech, data and interaction.  Through the programme, we’ll also explore how this practice can best be sustained; in particular how the different values it generates – artistic, social and commercial – can be capitalised on.

Delivered through three organisations – Manchester Digital Laboratory (Madlab), Broadway in Nottingham, and Makerversity in London – participants in the pilot programme will be provided with the space, the tools, networks and the advice necessary to develop new practices, ideas, products and services. What we will learn from the pilot will help us better understand how arts and technology practices can flourish.

Commenting on the pilot, Dawn Ashman, Arts Council’s Director, Creative Industries said:

“This is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate the value of creative and arts practice in fostering innovation. Some of the most innovative and risky projects in various areas of technological endeavour are driven by artists, experimenting with technology, engaging users in new ways and critically reflecting on the impact of new technologies. We are excited to be working with Innovate UK to pilot this programme, and see this as the beginning of a long-term relationship to support original and innovative arts practice”.

If interested then please keep an eye out for calls for participants and updates from MadLab, Broadway and Makerversity.  The programme runs until September 2016.

More details can be found on the Arts Council England website.

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Creativeworks London is one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations, to strengthen and diversify their collaborative research activities and increase the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.