From Revolution to Evolution: What Next for the Digital Creative Industries?

 

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The University of Brighton is marking the launch of its new Journalism and Digital Media Hub by bringing together industry and academics involved in the digital creative industries for an early-evening gathering of short talks and discussion. The aim of this event is to consider the future of the digital creative industries and ways in which universities and industry can work together in advancing the sector. The digital revolution has taken place – but how can the creative industries evolve?

Digital creative industries offer enormous promise to contribute to economic growth and social development. The creative industries is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the UK and, according to the CBI, contributes 6% of GDP and employs over 2million people. The media and communication fields are now in a constant state of adaptation and innovation due to rapid technological development. The University of Brighton has responded to these shifts by launching the Journalism and Digital Media Hub. The Hub has combined existing and new degree courses linked with the creative industries and will be launched in September from the Hastings campus. The Hub considers industry partnerships as vitally important to producing employable graduates, and knowledge exchange and collaboration as crucial to social and economic development. https://www.brighton.ac.uk/studying-here/subject-areas/journalism-and-digital-media.aspx

To reserve your place, please visit the De La Warr Pavilion booking page

Programme

4.00-4.10pm: Welcome and introduction the Journalism and Digital Media Hub

Simon McEnnis (Senior Lecturer in Sport Media, University of Brighton)

Helen Kennedy (Deputy Head of School of Art, Design and Media, University of Brighton)

4.10-4.35pm: Key note speaker: Making Universities Fit for Business

Jon Dovey (Professor of Screen Media at the University of the West of England)

Jon will talk about the challenges and lessons from teaming creative businesses with academics for prototype development, sharing the wide range of impacts that emerge and how to understand creative ecologies as a methodology rather than just a metaphor.

 4.35-4.50pm: The Tech Revolution in the Newsroom

Catalina Albeanu (News Editor for journalism.co.uk)

New technologies can help journalists do their jobs better and faster, but do they also add more tasks to the to-do list? This talk looks at ways media outlets have adopted technology in the newsroom and what this means for the skills and expertise required of new hires.

4.50-5pm: Podcasting: An Evolution of Traditional Broadcasting

Lance Dann (Course Leader of Broadcast Media Top-Up, University of Brighton)

5.00-5.15pm Coffee

 

5.15-6.00pm Panel discussion: What Next for the Digital Creative Industries and Higher Education?

Chaired by Helen Kennedy (Deputy Head of School of Art, Design and Media, University of Brighton)

Jon Dovey (Professor of Screen Media at the University of the West of England)

Paul Sermon (Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Brighton)

Joe Macleod (Closure Experiences and former Global Design Director at ustwo)

Juliet Tzabar (Managing Director of Plug-in Media)

Catalina Albeanu (News Editor at Journalism.co.uk)

 

6.00pm: Networking and refreshments

 To reserve your place please visit the De La Warr Pavilion booking page

Biographies

 

  Jon Dovey is Professor of Screen Media at the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education at the University of the West of England, Bristol. In 2008 he launched the Digital Cultures Research Centre which he Directed until 2012.

He was a Knowledge Transfer Fellow at Bristol’s Pervasive Media Studio from 2010-12, co-authoring the Pervasive Media Cookbook (http://pervasivemediacookbook.com/). In 2012 he became the Director of REACT (Research and Enterprise for Arts and Creative Technologies) one of four Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the AHRC.

He is co-author of Game Cultures Open University Press 2006 and New Media – A Critical Introduction Routledge 2009.

 

  Catalina Albeanu manages the Journalism.co.uk media training portfolio, organising open training courses designed to help journalists, freelance writers, charities and anyone who publishes online keep up with the latest trends and use the new tools available to build on their core reporting and writing skills.

She also writes news and features about technology and the media, and produces podcasts looking at the latest apps and tools that could help journalists with their day to day tasks.

Catalina is also involved with shaping the agenda and organising panels and workshops for the news:rewired digital journalism conference in London, ran by Journalism.co.uk. The event brings together media professionals to discuss innovation in the newsroom and share practical lessons and tips from their own experiences working with new technologies and processes

Before joining Journalism.co.uk, she was a freelance multimedia journalist in London, covering the city’s dynamic technology start-up scene. She completed her journalism training at City University London, and was a trainee for Olympic Broadcasting Services during London 2012.

 

  Dr Lance Dann (http://www.lancedann.co.uk/)is a researcher of transmedia and participatory storytelling at the University of Brighton. His research explores non-linear narratives and the possibilities offered by digital and web-based radio. Lance comes from an industry background and worked as a radio producer, artist and writer, producing numerous works for BBC Radio and independent stations internationally.

He won a Prix Marulic for his production of Moby Dick for BBC Radio 4, a Silver Sony for his production of the safe sex campaign Love Safely with Kiss 107.2 and a TFT award for Digital Innovation for his transmedia project The Flickerman. Between 1998 and 2007 he was a sound designer for the acclaimed experimental theatre company The Wooster Group working on their touring rep of shows and producing a series of radio pieces broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Lance has founded the Art group Noiseless Blackboard Eraser and is an Associate Member of the New York theatre company and acts as Commissioning Editor for the London radio station Resonance 104.4FM.

 

   Juliet Tzabar has been working in media production since 1995, moving across to produce interactive content in 2000.  Making interactive content for leading digital businesses, she has specialised in delivering interactive entertainment projects with a broadcast tie-in, largely focused at the children and families audience.

Juliet worked as a producer at Victoria Real on the company’s ground-breaking broadcast-related digital projects such as Big Brother, River Cottage and CBBC’s Xchange.

Joining Plug-in Media as a partner at the start of 2007, Juliet has overseen the company establish itself as one of the UK’s leading digital agencies. More recently she has been overseeing their move into original IP development, capitalising on their experience within the kid’s content sector to originate, produce and publish original IP across multiple platforms.

Juliet serves on the advisory committee for the Children’s Media Conference and is on the board of Wired Sussex. In 2011 she was a finalist in the Women in Technology Entrepreneur of the Year award.

 

   Joe Macleod has been working in the mobile design space since 1998 and has been involved in a pretty diverse range of projects. At Nokia he helped develop some of the most streamlined packaging in the world, he created a hack team to disrupt the corporate drone of PowerPoint, produced mobile services for pregnant women in Africa and pioneered lighting behavior for millions of phones.

For the last four years he has been key to establishing ustwo as the UKs best digital product studio, with 180 people globally in London, New York and Sweden, while also successfully building education initiatives, curriculums and courses on the back of the IncludeDesign campaign which launched in 2013.

Joe has recently established Closure Experiences, a new business looking at issues around consumption, consumerism and designing the end of things.

 

  Paul Sermon (http://www.paulsermon.org) is Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Brighton. He has worked for over twenty years as an active academic researcher and creative practitioner, primarily in the field of telematic arts.

Having worked under the visionary cybernetic artist Professor Roy Ascott as an undergraduate Fine Art student, Paul Sermon went on to establish himself as a leading pioneer of interactive media art, winning the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Linz, Austria, shortly after completing his MFA at the University of Reading in 1991. An accolade that took Paul to Finland in the early 1990s to develop one of the most groundbreaking works of his career Telematic Dreaming in 1992.

 

To reserve your place please visit the De La Warr Pavilion booking page

For more information please contact us at the Hastings-Exchange@brighton.ac.uk

  The exhibition ‘Towards an alternative history of graphic design Schmuck, POP, bRIAN, Assembling’, will also be open before and during the event, located in the pavilion’s 2^nd gallery on the first floor of the building. The exhibition sets out a new way of looking at graphic design history by focusing on four publications from the late 1960s to mid-1970s: Schmuck, POP, bRIAN and Assembling, so why not arrive early and take a look. For more information visit

http://www.dlwp.com/event/towards-an-alternative-history-of-graphic-design