The title and topic of this years’ event will be ‘Art, digitalisation, and other stories’. The objective is twofold. On the hand, to examine examples of how and in what way technological changes have affected us as artists, industry professionals, academics, audiences, and patrons of arts and culture. On the other hand, to question how culture evolves alongside digitalisation through shifts and changes that bear no relation with digitalisation as a process.

This will be achieved through presentations of the dissertation of our MA students from last (2023 – 2024) year, and a keynote from Dr Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Assistant Professor of Cultural Economics and Organizations at the Department of Arts and Culture, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Carolina’s keynote will delve into the relationship between the local and the digital implied in creative and artistic production. She addresses the power of crowdsourcing and dispersed patronage participation to leverage the power of ‘glocal’ creativity. With a focus on the socio-economic aspects of creative production, Carolina addresses both the artistic and financial reasons implied in creative production and consumption. In line with new forms of funding the arts, mixed and matched forms of funding are suggested as a path ahead to secure sustainable avenues for the arts.

The keynote will be followed by a discussion, moderated by Christine Osborne, Partnership Officer, Belfast City Council.

Get your free tickets at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-digitalisation-and-other-stories-tickets to be a part of the event, which will be arranged in the Brian Friel Theatre, 20 University Square, at 4pm on the 6^th November 2024.

There will be a drinks reception afterwards open to all attendees.

More information is available at the link https://sluggerotoole.com/2024/10/19/arts-digitalisation-and-other-stories/ 

Part of the The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science Northern Ireland.