I recently had a fascinating conversation with Juliana Farha, founder and MD of Dilettante – the exciting classical music social web service. We covered all sorts of topics and this is the first of a two part interview where Juliana introduces Dilettante and shares her thoughts on the excitement and challenges of being a pioneer in the space where classical music and the social web meet.
This is part 2 of my recent conversation with Deborah Dignam, curator of the recent Connected showcase of some of the UK’s leading practitioners of interactive performing arts.
In it we talk about how best to support new and emerging artforms and artists.
This week I met Deborah Dignam at the British Council to talk to her about the Connected UK, a showcase of British interactive performing arts for the East Asian market. From my own interest in this particular form of practice, I feel that the UK is home to some remarkable and world-leading talent in this area and I was fascinated to find out more about the group and how East Asia responded to their work.
The footage from the latest Peer to Peer event – The Arts & The Moral Economy – is now online. Visit the event page to see Stewart Wallis, Executive Director of the New Economics Foundation sharing his vision for an economy which benefits both people and planet.
There was lively debate about what role the Arts ‘could’ or ’should’ play in sparking dialogues that re-imagine the future. Here’s a taste of some of the themes discussed, or visit the dedicated page for more videos and audio excerpts from the sessions.
Here is part 2 of the interview with pioneering cellist Peter Gregson.
You can find out more about Peter and what he is up to via his website www.petergregson.co.uk
And we’re sorry if the darkness of the video is offputting. We shot the video in Shoreditch House and halfway through our conversation they decided to pretty much put us in candelight. Romantic yes. Good for handheld video interviews no.
Ben Cameron (Doris Duke Foundation) and Clara Miller (Non Profit Finance Fund) recently came to the UK as part of MMM’s Funding Transition event.
In this fascinating interview, Ben and Clara talk more about their Leading for the Future programme and their understanding of innovation. Essential viewing. Even if we do say so ourselves.
This week I met with Simon Worthington. As well as being the publisher of Mute magazine and director of OpenMute , Simon has recently been running the Art of Digital London project on behalf of Arts Council England’s London office. We met up up at the Hub Kings Cross to find out more…
Following last week’s publication of Not Rocket Science: a roadmap for arts and cultural R&D, I went to NESTA to see one of its authors Hasan Bakhshi to find out more about where the idea for the paper came from.
This is an interview that I held with Dave Moutrey, Director of Cornerhouse - the leading mixed arts venue in Manchester. I was particularly keen to hear more about Cornerhouse’s Art of With programme which was kicked off by the commissioning of Charlie Leadbeater’s paper of the same name. This was followed by further essays and a seminar series.
As well as this thought-leadership – and I highly recommend reviewing the first seminar summary to get a flavour for the ideas – I was particularly intrigued to hear about how they are taking these ideas of openness, self-organising and user-as-producer and incorporating them into their core business.
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