ReGrowing Digital Arts – Creative Growth
NEoN is commissioning to develop a ‘Digital Arts Symposia Provocation’ that can push the boundaries of what academic and arts-based conferences can be.
This ‘provocation’ is a researched digital arts symposium proposal that aims to experiment with the format by incorporating performance, multi-media, and wider disciplines while ensuring the symposium’s quality marker through up-to-date research and ‘energised’ knowledge exchange. Perhaps most importantly, this provocation needs to break down academic barriers by demonstrating accessibility and broadening reach, such as through live streaming elements and the use of city-based locations around Dundee (i.e. what works well? and why?).
Apply here by Monday 15 March 2021
NEoN are looking to commission someone with experience of contributing to conferences and symposia in the creative, cultural and/or academic sector and be a demonstrable advocate for knowledge exchange. They are open to all disciplinary backgrounds, though with some connection, knowledge and/or experience of digital arts.
The role will involve working with Donna Holford-Lovell, director of NEoN, and Dr Michael Pierre Johnson, a creative economy researcher based at the Innovation School, The Glasgow School of Art. This will include using and responding to data collected as part of Michael’s research collaboration with NEoN, working with archive materials of NEoN’s past internships and work placements, and engaging with a range of stakeholders from Higher Education and the digital arts sector to produce the manifesto.
The commission is funded by Michael’s AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Innovation Leadership Fellow, The Value of Creative Growth. It offers £2400 for the work to be delivered between 15th March and 11th June 2021. This is calculated at £200 / day for 12 days of work; the working pattern is flexible within this timeframe.
There is also a budget available to cover materials, production and dissemination costs. Part of your role may suggest ways of presenting/sharing this manifesto in engaging ways after the June 2021 deadline.
The deadline for applications is Mon 15th March. Interviews will be performed on Wed 17th March, with the selected person informed on Fri 19th March.
