Shaping the future
of the creative
industries

We aim 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.

Shaping the future<br> of the creative<br> industries

Case Studies

Take a closer look at the innovative work and research that has been carried out by our funded partners and creative community networks across the Creative Informatics programme. Our Case Studies highlight the stories and achievements from showcase projects that have been supported and developed through funding from Creative Informatics.

Community

Over the past five years, Creative Informatics built a community of creative professionals across Edinburgh and South East Scotland through its funded programmes, projects and support networks. Browse the community pages to find businesses and individuals who have been supported through the Creative Informatics programme.

Events

12
Apr

Let’s Play

7pm
Dissection Room, Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL

Celebrate the Scottish video game industry at this interactive night out that’s just for adults! The night is yours to play with – choose from a programme of short talks from industry creatives and researchers, try out cutting-edge tech or relax with a drink at the bar and enjoy some AI-generated beats.

10
Apr

Talk: Creative AI for Creative Work

6pm
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF

The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence is creating challenges for the creative industries around human creativity, originality, intellectual property, and ethics. However, AI has incredible potential as a tool for creative work - for experimentation or as part of an ideation process.

30
Mar

Creative Informatics: Unleashing the Power of Data

10am
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF

Explore some of the innovative products, new experiences and groundbreaking creative work that has been developed through funding and support from Edinburgh’s Creative Informatics programme. The free exhibition will run at the National Museum of Scotland as part of Edinburgh Science Festival 2024.

Stay in Touch

How to Communicate Your Business Idea! We’ve partnered with Edinburgh Napier University’s student and alumni enterprise team, Bright Red Triangle @brightrtriangle to deliver a series of workshops created specifically for the needs expressed by the Creative Informatics community.

These events are in person, free to attend and open to anyone who has received Creative Informatics funding and support through any of our programmes or funding calls.

The first session takes place on Wed 21 Feb, 10am-12pm, at Bright Right Triangle’s Start Up Studio. Learn how to create an effective pitch and tailor your communication to make people as passionate about your idea as you are. This session is suitable for those at any stage of their entrepreneurship journey and anyone at your company can attend. 

Register now via the link in our bio 🔺

How to Communicate Your Business Idea! We’ve partnered with Edinburgh Napier University’s student and alumni enterprise team, Bright Red Triangle @brightrtriangle to deliver a series of workshops created specifically for the needs expressed by the Creative Informatics community.

These events are in person, free to attend and open to anyone who has received Creative Informatics funding and support through any of our programmes or funding calls.

The first session takes place on Wed 21 Feb, 10am-12pm, at Bright Right Triangle’s Start Up Studio. Learn how to create an effective pitch and tailor your communication to make people as passionate about your idea as you are. This session is suitable for those at any stage of their entrepreneurship journey and anyone at your company can attend.

Register now via the link in our bio 🔺
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Join us as we reflect on the past 18-months with our newly published annual review. With highlights from our research, events and community, there's plenty to celebrate. Read online or download a copy via the link in our bio 🌟

We're in the final few months of the Creative Informatics as our programme comes to an end in March 2024. We have some exciting events and partnerships to announce before then so look out for further information 👀

📸 Chagall on stage at our Innovation Showcase in September 2023. Photo by @littlekatphotos 

#CreativeInformatics #CreativeClusters #creativecommunity #EdinburghCreative

Join us as we reflect on the past 18-months with our newly published annual review. With highlights from our research, events and community, there`s plenty to celebrate. Read online or download a copy via the link in our bio 🌟

We`re in the final few months of the Creative Informatics as our programme comes to an end in March 2024. We have some exciting events and partnerships to announce before then so look out for further information 👀

📸 Chagall on stage at our Innovation Showcase in September 2023. Photo by @littlekatphotos

#CreativeInformatics #CreativeClusters #creativecommunity #EdinburghCreative
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Evaluating Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion activities within Creative Industries Clusters - how do Creative Informatics and other funding, policy and research organisations within the creative industries measure up? Find out more about this research and read the full report now. Link in bio 🌟

Thanks to @bajbart for allowing his FND Stories artwork (photographed by @chrisandhiscamera) to help illustrate this report. 

#CreativeClusters #CreativeIndustries #CreativeInformatics

Evaluating Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion activities within Creative Industries Clusters - how do Creative Informatics and other funding, policy and research organisations within the creative industries measure up? Find out more about this research and read the full report now. Link in bio 🌟

Thanks to @bajbart for allowing his FND Stories artwork (photographed by @chrisandhiscamera) to help illustrate this report.

#CreativeClusters #CreativeIndustries #CreativeInformatics
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We're celebrating and showcasing the potential of Creative AI with a special event in Glasgow on 28 November. Join us for an evening of performance and presentations (and food and drink) @platform_gla. 

This showcase is part of our Creative AI Demonstrator Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), to explore the potential for using AI, and specifically Creative AI, in the creative industries in Scotland. 

Registration is free - more information through link in bio 🎫

#creativeglasgow #creativeai #creativeinformatics #creativeclusters #creativeindustriesuk

We`re celebrating and showcasing the potential of Creative AI with a special event in Glasgow on 28 November. Join us for an evening of performance and presentations (and food and drink) @platform_gla.

This showcase is part of our Creative AI Demonstrator Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), to explore the potential for using AI, and specifically Creative AI, in the creative industries in Scotland.

Registration is free - more information through link in bio 🎫

#creativeglasgow #creativeai #creativeinformatics #creativeclusters #creativeindustriesuk
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We are excited to experience Sore Throat, a new, interactive film showing at @fruitmarketgallery from 10–12 November. 

How can the interactivity of performance be brought to moving image? Queer arts company @pollyannalive were funded by Creative Informatics to work with Studio Autonomic to create a new software that allows the audience to interact with a film using their voice.

Sore Throat (or Magang Lalamunan in Tagalog) has been created in tandem with the software, resulting in a unique interactive artwork. The shapeshifting characters of Sore Throat traverse a glimmering midnight world. Sound and music travels from rural Philippines to the Malate queer district of Manila. Maximalist spaces glimmer from birds-eye view on original theatrical backdrops… Drawing on the experiences of co-creator Davide Bugarin, and building on the new technology’s focus on sound, the film explores how sound has impacted queer people and space in the Philippines, in the context of colonisation, gentrification and monstrous mythology.

Produced by Pollyanna. Co-created by Davide Bugarin & Adam Castle. 

Book a ticket to the opening night on 9 Nov [link in bio], or drop in throughout the weekend. See you there! 👋

We are excited to experience Sore Throat, a new, interactive film showing at @fruitmarketgallery from 10–12 November.

How can the interactivity of performance be brought to moving image? Queer arts company @pollyannalive were funded by Creative Informatics to work with Studio Autonomic to create a new software that allows the audience to interact with a film using their voice.

Sore Throat (or Magang Lalamunan in Tagalog) has been created in tandem with the software, resulting in a unique interactive artwork. The shapeshifting characters of Sore Throat traverse a glimmering midnight world. Sound and music travels from rural Philippines to the Malate queer district of Manila. Maximalist spaces glimmer from birds-eye view on original theatrical backdrops… Drawing on the experiences of co-creator Davide Bugarin, and building on the new technology’s focus on sound, the film explores how sound has impacted queer people and space in the Philippines, in the context of colonisation, gentrification and monstrous mythology.

Produced by Pollyanna. Co-created by Davide Bugarin & Adam Castle.

Book a ticket to the opening night on 9 Nov [link in bio], or drop in throughout the weekend. See you there! 👋
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Join us @inspacegallery on 3 November for a live performance of music and movement exploring agency, creativity and empathy through embodied interactions with AI. 

As human bodies become increasingly entangled with technology, how do we maintain agency, creativity and empathy? In this performance, two dancers (Emma Snellgrove and Atul Kumar) and a musician (Theodore Koterwas) interact physically with an artificial intelligence they’ve trained to stimulate novel creative expression and bodily entrainment between them.

Find out more about the performance and sign up now. Registration is free via link in bio 🌟

Join us @inspacegallery on 3 November for a live performance of music and movement exploring agency, creativity and empathy through embodied interactions with AI.

As human bodies become increasingly entangled with technology, how do we maintain agency, creativity and empathy? In this performance, two dancers (Emma Snellgrove and Atul Kumar) and a musician (Theodore Koterwas) interact physically with an artificial intelligence they’ve trained to stimulate novel creative expression and bodily entrainment between them.

Find out more about the performance and sign up now. Registration is free via link in bio 🌟
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Data Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries

Edited by Melissa Terras, Vikki Jones, Nicola Osborne and Chris Speed.

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