ACE and NESTA digital research and development
Andrew Wilson
"Arts Council England and NESTA are developing a programme which aims
to help arts and cultural organisations use digital technologies to
engage audiences in new ways and create opportunities for new business
models."
*In order to ensure that programme is fit for purpose, Arts Council
England and NESTA are undertaking an initial scoping exercise until 27
May to help develop the themes that the programme will focus on. We're
looking for your help and feedback*
http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/creative_economy/digitial_rnd
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Andrew
Simon Biggs
This is an example of the sort of instrumentalisation of arts practice we
should be fighting.
Secondly, NESTA's remit covers the UK. How can NESTA justify only supporting
English activities when it has a national remit? How are these funds being
hypothecated?
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Simon
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Mat Trivett
Here is the website for the ACE / NESTA fund:
If you have ideas then put them down, it is clearly ideas all coming from NESTA at the moment and no voices from the organisations that deal with digital arts practice.
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=7ce40&t=7ce40.47&f=7ce40.38952c
Thought I would share
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Pauline van Mourik Broekman
I don't know whether anyone's already been on this 'Google Moderator'
platform, but, for an organisation (NESTA), or organisations (NESTA/ACE)
positioning themselves as leading on this subject, I really do think it's
one of the most bizarre attempts at consultation I've seen in a long time.
I say this against my own instincts, as I just don't understand how these
organisations could *ever* have made it as democratic as it is... But
then, that's also what makes me mistrust it entirely.
I mean, you can literally rock up here, submit a user-name (no email
verification required, unless you have no established account within
Google), start pitching with your priorities and plans, and vote like
crazy on the ones that have already been submitted.
OK, the NESTA-created ones are clearly flagged as such, and all the new
ones will be clearly identifiable as indexed to the interests of those who
submit them (e.g. specialists in certain areas of digital, or agencies
with a track record for 'X', or digital strategy consultants, etc. etc.
etc.), but STILL, in essence it remains possible for literally 'anyone',
travelling under any nickname, to influence the process.
What this will result in, and already has, is massive duplication, hazy
overlaps, unclear provenance, etc. The opposite of something like a
balanced picture of opinion, through which the funders might really get a
sense of what a *variety* of organisations and individuals think.
Perhaps it will give NESTA a 'vibe' of what's going on out there; what's
being thought; what people value... But my sense is that, just like with
other processes that are predetermined and where consultation constitutes
no more than a gloss applied after the fact, this really means very little
(beyond, perhaps, ensuring via a quick, last-minute crowd-source that
they've covered their bases and aren't missing anything obvious).
Alongside it, other processes of consultation are being conducted, within
which those questioned have been very carefully chosen, whose names
haven't been published (or at least I haven't seen them yet), and which I
imagine will determine the order of the day.
Perhaps I'm just being too pessimistic, but I can't help but feel this is
a real shame, and a waste of resources.
Pauline.
PS Hey Matt, thanks so much for the FT link too!
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this is online at the Guardian:
| Website to catalogue impact of arts funding cuts The Guardian "Every £1 invested in the arts produces £2 for the economy, and yet the arts and culture sector is currently suffering from disastrous local authority cuts, as well as the cuts that the Arts Council has had to make after its 30% cut from the government ... See all stories on this topic » |
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