Reply to CODA from Andrew Naire / Arts Council England

[CODA]

To the Council of Digital Arts,

 

Thank you for your letter of 28 April to myself, Liz Forgan and Alan Davey, in which you proposed an ongoing dialogue about future investment in digital culture.  The Arts Council would very much welcome this, particularly as many of the issues and questions you raise we are currently debating and discussing with artists and arts organisations.  To this end, we would like to make a detailed and formal response to your letter at the end of June.

 

One of those discussions will of course be on Saturday at the Future Everything conference. Arts Council Relationship Manager Lucy Dusgate will be coming along to this meeting. Lucy will be there very much in a listening capacity at this time, rather than to give any detailed responses to your letter. She will ensure that views represented are fed back to her colleagues.

 

I hope that this exchange, and the discussion on Saturday,  is the beginning of a longer and productive conversation. I also hope that through dialogue with you and with the wider sector, we can work together to achieve the goals and priorities set out in our strategic framework, Achieving great art for everyone.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Andrew Nairne

 

 

Executive Director, Arts

Arts Council England

 

 

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[Sarah Cook]

Hello all

sorry to have missed the meeting in manchester at FutureEverything, while I was in Canada at the Banff Centre battling against naive corporate understandings of media art practice (not a Banff Centre member of staff I should say but a hired facilitator for meetings about the future of digital media - rather depressing). 

Will someone be posting minutes or a report on what was discussed?

Sarah

[Pauline van Mourik Broekman]

Hi Sarah,

Yes... sad to have not had you there - it was very interesting and productive.

I am sure that Rachel B took notes, and said she would circulate these or possibly publish them on the coda2coda.net site. Since the discussion was quite long and involved, I'm not sure how long this will take; perhaps she herself has a sense of that - Rachel?

In addition, a lot of other people took notes, including Lucy Dusgate who, as you can see in the Andrew Nairne email below, was there 'in a listening capacity' on behalf of ACE.

All bests,
Pauline.

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