Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events
Happenstance Report Now Available
The official report on the Centre's Happenstance research project has now been published on NESTA's website - you can download it here. There is also a Centre blog post about learning from failure, linked to the report, plus a short YouTube video about the project.
Happenstance: Digital R&D in the Arts
Dr Chris Bilton, Ruth Leary and Katherine Jewkes have recently completed their study of the Happenstance Project - a series of creative technology residencies within three arts organisations; Site Gallery (Sheffield), Spike Island (Bristol) and Lighthouse (Brighton), conceived and produced by Caper. Watch the video or read on to find out more about Happenstance and our research aims.
Jonathan Vickery gives European Capital of Culture keynote address
On the first weekend of November I gave an opening address at an event that marked the start of the last stage of a main strand at the European Capital of Culture in Guimarães, northern Portugal. It's not an easy time for Portugal, and the actual capital investment and budgetary levels of this ECoC is lower than many past events. And yet, Portugal has demonstrated enormous creative energy. The year long event was, of course, quite complex: the strand I participated in was the Curators' Lab, which was for artists, designers, architects, urbanists and curators, as well as many others. My paper addressed the new art spaces emerging all over Europe, each playing a role in the creative economy. My paper will soon be available through the ECoC website.
See more on: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/cp/blog/