Exploring Creative Technologies in the Arts and Cultural & Creative Industries (CCIs)

This workshop aims to explore the commonalities and distinctions in the infrastructural needs and data practices across arts-focused and related research communities. Those involved in the workshop will have the opportunity to engage with the emergent landscape of the UK's Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI), to input on infrastructural needs, and to identify opportunities for collaboration and future development.

The workshop is organised as part of the UKRI-DRI-funded DISKAH project. The network aims to widen access to digital research infrastructure, including high-performance computing, within the arts and humanities communities. In doing so, it also seeks to overcome interdisciplinary siloes towards innovative approaches to data, high-performance computing (HPC), and code libraries within these communities. The workshop will be an opportunity to explore how approaches to data-oriented, computationally informed research skills, alongside other key resource requirements, effectively address the needs of the broader landscape of arts, culture, social sciences, creative industries, and humanities.

This workshop is by invitation only.

Programme

Time Session

9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Networking

10:00 - 11:30 Welcome & Roundtable Introductions

– Introduction to CCP-AHC and DISKAH

Prof Karina Rodriguez, University of Brighton

– Creative Technologies, Social Media, Arts, Humanities, and Culture

Dr Zoetanya Sujon, University Arts London

11:30 - 11:45 Break

11:45 - 13:00 Mapping the field(s): Digital Research Infrastructure, Data, Skills sets, Barriers and Needs

Professional Support (e.g. RSEs, Creative Technologists, etc)

13:00 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 14:45 Blue Sky / Wild Card Thinking

15:00 Workshop End