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Call for events – Brighton Digital Festival 2012
Brighton Digital Festival is a celebration of digital culture that happens in venues across the city, throughout September. The festival returns in 2012 and after the successes of last year, we think we really have something to shout about.
The festival’s steering group is looking for great projects to open and close the festival and we’d like to invite our community to send us ideas.
Brave New World – A New Arts Landscape
As part of the Brighton Digital Festival 2011 Fabrica held a series of three discussion evenings. Each with a different theme they gave an in-depth look at how social media and the digital space is changing the arts landscape. From artists taking their first steps and learning how to manage their online reputation, to those using the digital space to make work and invite creative participation, to the forces that will reshape arts organisations, challenging elitism and encouraging a diversity of voices into the arts.
Session 1: September 6, Fabrica
The first session focused on artists engaging online, what the first steps you should take, how do you control your reputation, how much control should you seek? Should you try and make this part of your practice? Do you view it as an additional activity that you’ll do when you have time? What are the pitfalls and excitements?
The speaker for the first session was Antony Mayfield, a Brighton resident who is a consultant, author and commentator on web media strategy, social media, online content, reputation management and digital literacy. He is the author of Me and My Web Shadow: How to Manage Your Reputation Online.
Find out more about Antony here.
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Session 2: September 14, Fabrica
The second session featured four artists who are using the online space in interesting ways.
The panelists were-
Kevin Meredith aka Lomokev, Brighton-based photographer
Kirsty Hall, Artsist and purveyor of mad obsessive projects (her words)
Wandering Bears, an artists’ collective
Lucy Phillips, creator of the What Cannot Be Seen project
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Session 3: September 21, Fabrica
The final session will look at the impact of social media on arts organisations. What are the challenges we face and what are the opportunities?
The speaker for this event was Laurence Hill, Fabrica’s Head of Audiences and Communications and freelance arts communications consultant. He talked about the work that he’s done and continues to do on developing a new way of communicating for Fabrica, which is an acknowledged leader in this area. And more broadly about what this means for diversity in the arts.
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Making Space at Fabrica
As part of its Making Space programme, Fabrica is opened up its gallery space to recent graduates from Brighton’s MA Digital Media course to explore new ideas.
Resonance is a digital art collective whose artists recently graduated from the Digital Media Arts MA at University of Brighton. They worked in Fabrica over two weeks during Brighton’s Digital Festival to create and test an interactive work. The work will be shown at this year’s White Night Festival and will follow its theme of Utopia.
Check out their online diary and witness ‘the dome’ coming into being!
resonancearts.co.uk
