Building the Wireframe

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Building the Wireframe

• e-Science processes in the creative industries
• e-Science in arts practice
• Using resource for local arts infrastructure
• Workshop series

Dr. Gregory Sporton
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Issues in e-Science

• What is e-Science?
• Technology/Network
• Digital media/processes
• Computers
• Not monolithic

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e-Science Post-modernism

• Moved away from culture of experts
• Challenged notions of authority, skill, meaning
• Claimed vast range of practices and products
• What do you want it to mean???

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e-Science Arts Humanities

• Who owns technology?
• How do you develop it?
• Social cost/benefit
• Opportunity and innovation
• Role of the University
• Public understanding

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e-Science Visual Arts

• New forms of creativity?
• Collaborative practice?
• Interactivity?
• Unfinished/ Unfinishable?
• Theory running ahead of practice
• Create an infrastructure

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e-Science in the Visual Arts

• What would a useful infrastructure look like?
• How to link technology and creativity?
• Re-interpretation of training/practice
• What is it to be creative?