Creative Freelancers Sought for Research Interviews
CI small grant holder Holly Patrick needs your help!An academic research project is looking for creative freelancers to interview. Dr Holly Patrick is investigating the effects of the pandemic on creative freelancers and the role of online groups in providing support. Interviews are being held until the end of this month (September 2020) and will be around 30 minutes each. She is particularly […]
Zoom Obscura – expressions of interest call
funded call for artists/hackers/creative tech people for critical interventions into video-callingCI researchers Pip Thornton, Chris Elsden and Chris Speed were recently awarded funding from the Human Data Interaction Network (HDI +) Ethics & Data competition. Collaborating with researchers from Durham and KCL, the Zoom Obscura project aims to investigate creative interventions for a data ethics of video conferencing beyond encryption. The COVID-19 pandemic has gifted […]
ImprovBot
Experiments with Practice Based Digital ResearchIn this post, Creative Informatics Director of Research Prof. Melissa Terras reflects on her involvement in the development of an artificially intelligent improvised Fringe show generator, which has been getting rave reviews locally and around the world. Research undertaken by Creative Informatics is evolving to take various guises. From quantitively mapping the cultural and creative […]
Creative Informatics Guide for Online Events
At Creative Informatics we run many events, from meetups and networking, to drop-in sessions and workshops to support applications and funding of various programmes. We don’t do any specific teaching, however many of our sessions are intended to be informative and enable peer collaboration and knowledge exchange.
The guide is written in an informal, and practical style and is initially a way for us to share and think through …
Susceptible, Infectious, Recovering:
Tracing responses to the novel coronavirus in the cityCreative Informatics researcher Pip Thornton recently contributed to a Design Informatics seminar led by Chancellor’s Fellow and Director of Data Civics at Edinburgh University Dr. Liz McFall. The seminar, which also featured brand new work from Edinburgh sociology PhD students Kath Bassett, Idil Galip and Addie McGowan was divided into two complimentary sections, each addressing […]
Spaces for skills:
Blending the physical and the virtualIn this blog post, CI researcher Ingi Helgason discusses some of the research and delivery hurdles faced by the CI team in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, and how they have been experimenting with innovative ways with which to overcome them. I’m writing this in the summer of 2020 as we are all trying […]
The Trouble with Data
Mapping Freelancers in the Creative IndustriesIn this blog, Creative Informatics researcher Inge Panneels asks: How do we make sure freelancers aren’t overlooked when we gather data on the cultural sector? A question made all the more pertinent by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Inge suggests that compulsory collection of more granular and carefully coded data through HMRC might […]