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The 2021 Creative Informatics Innovation Showcase took place online on the 8th and 9th of June.
Thank you to everyone who joined us to find out more about some of the inspiring data-driven work Creative Informatics is supporting in Edinburgh and South East Scotland’s creative industries.
If you didn’t make it along, you can watch video highlights from the event now!
The 2021 Creative Informatics Innovation Showcase is now over.
Thank you to everyone who joined us to find out more about some of the inspiring data-driven work Creative Informatics is supporting in Edinburgh and South East Scotland’s creative industries.
You can find out more about all of our Meet Ups over on our CI Innovation Showcase Miro Board. Sessions will be taking place on Whereby – all you have to do is click on the link for the session you would like to join and knock on the door!
Day 2
Creative Edinburgh: What does data mean to you?
Join Meet Up at 2pm: bit.ly/MeetUp-CE
Hear from some of Creative Edinburgh’s Connected Innovators and figure out what data means to you and your creative practice.
DISTANCE Project
Join Meet Up at 2pm: bit.ly/MeetUp-Distance
Find out more about Applied Arts Scotland’s DISTANCE Project, which is exploring new possibilities for makers to collaborate using immersive technologies.
Creative Informatics Director Chris Speed introduces the CI Innovation Showcase.
Artist Sarah Calmus, service design and user experience research consultancy InChat, and cultural web platform providers Scottie will introduce their Creative Informatics projects and discuss the ways in which they are using data and data-driven technologies to reach and interact with new audiences in a live panel.
Oliver Littlejohn, Head of Partnerships at CodeBase, will host a panel exploring the future for creative ecosystems as we start to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis, what can we learn from the last year and how can businesses engage globally while building strong empathetic local connections?
Brian Baglow, founder of Scottish Games Network, creative and digital agency Insurgent Studios, and digital surveying and pre-visualisation specialists Stageport join us to talk about their Creative Informatics projects, utilising a variety of data sets to create new tools and resources for the creative industries.
Take your pick from a selection of meet ups exploring the latest innovations in Edinburgh’s Creative Industries and the wider Creative Informatics community.
Interactive experience designers SENSECity New Media Artist Martin Disley, and Rebecca Kaye, founder of environmental data design agency Ploterre, discuss the new modalities of experience they have uncovered for creating innovative new work and audience experiences.
An interview and live Q&A with Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, co-founder of the award-winning social enterprise Stemettes, and host of the Women Tech Charge podcast.
Both the Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review/the ‘Logan Review’ and Scotland’s AI Strategy have set out ambitious visions for the future of creative data and technology use in Scotland. This panel will look forward to emerging opportunities for the creative industries to innovate in creative, sustainable and inclusive ways in the near and further future.
Take your pick from a selection of meet ups exploring the latest innovations in Edinburgh’s Creative Industries and the wider Creative Informatics community.
Foxdog studios bring their award winning show Robot Chef to the CI Innovation Showcase, for a special interactive online performance. Have your phone fully charged to control Foxdog’s DIY robot chef, and help Lloyd and Pete cook dinner by igniting their gas stove, driving a sky tractor and firing the sausage cannon!
Presenting inspiring data-driven work from the Creative Informatics Community
Creative Informatics is an ambitious research and development programme based in Edinburgh, which aims to bring the city’s world-class creative industries and tech sector together, providing funding and development opportunities that enable creative individuals and organisations to explore how data can be used to drive ground-breaking new products, businesses and experiences.
