Creative Horizon 4 Discovery Workshop - Data and Creative Practice

Join us to find out how you can apply for £5k of funding to develop creative & artistic responses to the issue of data and creative practice

Funding Opportunity:

Inviting creatives to get creative about data

Applications are invited for individuals and organisations who wish to develop creative and artistic responses to the issue of data and creative practice.

We will fund at minimum four projects with a budget of £5,000 to cover fees and production costs for the creative work. Additional budget is available for travel, exhibition, recording and archival costs. Applications close at 5pm on 27th of April, with successful applicants notified by 11th May. Projects should commence no later than June and conclude by mid-September for an exhibition and symposium at the end of September.

If you are interested in applying, come along to this informal online session to find out more about what data means in the context of creative practice. There will be plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion.

Through this open call, we are inviting creatives to respond a creative brief. We will select several practitioners to work with us, leading to an informative, provocative and engaging exhibition and showcase of the outputs. As an inspirational approach we encourage responders to consider “Design Fiction” and related concepts. By using fiction in a creative research process we gain freedom to examine and explore the topic of data, without getting too bogged down in the practical issues.

We hope that this approach will reveal insights for further discourse, and create outputs that engage a wider public audience in an accessible way. We want the work created to address what data about creative practice/business might mean, what it reflects, what it might not reflect, what it should capture and not capture, what it could do/or not do…?!

Image credit:

Crypto-Knitting-Circles workshop at Swap Market Glasgow 2019 – image courtesy of Ailie Rutherford & Bettina Nissen. Photographed by Bob Moyler

About Creative Informatics

Creative Informatics is a collaboration across the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, Codebase and Creative Edinburgh.

Funded by the Creative Industries Clusters Programme managed by the Arts & Humanities Research Council as part of the Industrial Strategy, with additional support from the Scottish Funding Council. The programme is part of the City Region Deal Data Driven Innovation initiative.

Find out more athttps://creativeinformatics.org/

Data Protection

In providing your completed registration response you are giving explicit consent for us to use this data in our programme monitoring and reporting processes. The data is managed confidentially. Your data will be held and used by the Creative Informatics delivery team based at the University of Edinburgh with some data shared with our funders the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Policy and Evidence Centre based at Nesta. Your data will only be reported in anonymous aggregated forms and will always be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and therefore also in accordance with the General Data Protection Act 2018 and therefore also in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).