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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Open call for Madlab and Makerversity Art/Tech Pilot

Madlab and Makerversity have both launched open calls for participants in Arts Council England/Innovate UK’s pilot art and technology innovation programme. This £1m pilot programme will support practitioners working at the intersection of arts and technology.

Responding to rapid developments in technology and accompanying shifts in ways of working, the £1m 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, and looks at 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.

More information on the open calls can be found here:

Madlab: http://accelerator.madlab.org.uk
Grants of £10k are available for each participant, deadline for applications is 15th November 2015.

Makerversity: MVWorks site and blog
Funding pot of £100k available for the group of participants, deadline for applications 26th October 2015. 

Further background on the programme:

www.artscouncil.org.uk

www.cwlblog.org.uk

 

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Queen Mary - University of London
Arts & Humanities Research Council
European Union
London Fusion

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.