Art of Dogital London Day 2 - 17th July

Arts Council England, London AmbITion Roadshow

‘Do The Arts Speak Digital?’: Symposium, July 17 2009, London, AmbITion Day 2 Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells In association with Amb:IT:ion, the Guardian and Resonance FM

9.30: Registration Coffee and refreshments

Stage Door Garden Court Café

MC: Bill Thompson Web Jockeyists: The People Speak

Lilian Baylis Studio

10.15: Welcome – Dame Liz Forgan, Chair, Arts Council England 10.25: Introduction: Hannah Rudman & Rachel Baker 10.30: Leader (keynote) on ‘the arts and the digital’: Ekow Eshun 10.55: Culture Blog: Interview - Charlotte Higgins (The Guardian) talks to Bill Thompson on her view of arts experimentation with digital models and her own Culture blog community. Ekow Eshun to join.

11.25: The PDA Blog: Social media and the arts – does the phenomenon and the tools of social media change expectations and relationships with audiences?

Named after the Guardian blog, PDA: Digital Content, usually written by Jemima Kiss, this panel will explore how ‘communities’ or even ‘markets’ are being built around arts projects as opposed to ‘audiences’.

Andy Gibson (School of Everything). (10 minute presentation).

Chair: Meg Pickard (Guardian) Panellists: Rachel Coldicutt (ROH), John McGrath (National Theatre Wales), Richard Slaney (London Philharmonia), Ed Baxter (Resonance FM).

12.30: Lunch

1st Circle Bar (part of Front of House area)

13.30: Performance, Peter Gregson plus interview with Hannah Rudman.

13.55: Paul B. Davis, Ambient TV 14.25: Digital Rights and Wrongs: Do the arts need a digital rights agency to manage IP and copyright control? Are the Digital Britain proposals regarding filesharing realistic?

Jamie King presents VoDo (10 minute presentation) Chair: Charles Arthur (the Guardian) Panelists: Pete Buckingham (UKFC), Laurence Kaye (Legal specialist), Gavin Starks (d::gen, AMEE), Bronac Ferran.

15.30 Break

Garden Court Café

15.40: The Technology Blog: Implications of ‘Digital Britain’ on the arts, or, what public service content looks like in the digital age'.

Bill Thompson (10 minute presentation) Chair: Bill Thompson Panellists: Will Gompertz (Tate); Frank Boyd (Unexpected Media), Jess Search (Channel 4 BRITDOC); Adam Gee (Channel 4); Marc Boothe B3 Media ; Hasan Bakshi (NESTA)

16.40: Comment Is Free Chair: Bill Thompson Participants: all speakers and audience.

17.35: Close

The symposium will be followed by a series of follow up workshops and surgeries facilitated by IT4Arts - The Information Technologists’ City of London Livery Company and Mute Publishing. The program for the surgery will be built up in consultation with the arts organisations attending the symposium and will start in September 2009.