Throughout our research for Unlocked we came across a number of further resources for those wishing to find out more about arts-based technologies & creativity. Below are just a few useful resources for further learning.
Organisation: Epic Arts
Project/publication: Pop Up and Play
When published/created: July 2015
What’s it about:
Epic Arts are exploring the use of video sharing/live streaming internationally to share and discover different worlds between artists and students in partnership with Attenborough Arts in Leicester. This is being done through the recently developed ‘Pop Up and Play’ system.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84LhwI9SH44
Organisation: Access All Areas
Project/publication: Eye Queue Hear
When published/created: 2015
What’s it about:
Access All Areas is a theatre company that works with people with learning disabilities, based in Shoreditch in London’s East End. Eye Queue Hear is a performance audio walk that was devised in 2013. Gareth White writes about the production in his publication Applied Theatre: Aesthetics
Link: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hCfbBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42
Organisation: Jo Verrent
Project/publication: Getting Closer to No Boundaries
When published/created: April 2014
What’s it about:
Jo Verrent’s blog post Getting Closer to No Boundaries is about The Arts Council of England’s State of the Arts Conference and how it had become accessible by using technology in 2014 compared to 2013.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jo-verrent/getting-closer-to-no-boundaries_b_4872268.html
Organisation: Short Circuit
When published/created: 2013
What’s it about:
Short Circuit is all about the art not the access – the aim is to design an accessible process for artists to explore the potential of digital rather than a process for artists to explore the accessibility potential of digital. It’s a process that is about exploration, play and learning, not focused only on output/creation, although that might be a by-product.
Link: http://shortcircuit.org.uk
Organisation: Nesta
Project/publication: Making Digital Work: Accessibility
When published/created: 2015
**What’s it about:
** The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts is a partnership between Nesta, the Arts Council England and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Accessibility is one of the major learning themes from the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. The accessibility work across the R&D Fund projects has mainly been focused specifically on improvements for disabled people. But as the projects have reported, improving access for a targeted section of an audience often improves it for all. The user testing that makes a better product for disabled people in an audience has benefits for everyone. These projects from the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts have been using digital to make the arts more accessible, creating the possibility of a rich interaction with arts and culture for everyone.
Links:
http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/making-digital-work-accessibility
Read more and download the accessibility toolkit at: artsdigitalrnd.org.uk/features/accessibility-video
Organisation: Creative Case
When published/created: February 2012
What’s it about:
Digitising Disability: on the work of Ju Gosling, Simon McKeown and Merce Cunningham
Link: http://www.creativecase.org.uk/creativecase-digitising-disability
Technology Apps
Organisation: Epic Arts
What’s it about:
We are currently in the initial stages of researching the development of a mobile app to enable our deaf dancers in Cambodia who are unable to read and write to be able to plan movement workshops, record choreography ideas and make notes on their weekly schedule using photos, video and images instead of words. We hope that this may be helpful for other artists as well. We use technology a lot within our work to encourage and enable independence in our students and artists and Skype and video messaging is a huge help along with Facebook groups to share information and updates.
Link: http://epicarts.org.uk
Organisation: HeartNSoul
What’s it about:
A project to help people with learning disabilities express themselves musically and collaborate with other people using readily available musical technologies.
Link: http://www.makeyoursoundlab.org
Organisation: Rhythmix
When published/created: October 2014
What’s it about:
Using iPads in Participatory Music is in an extensive piece of work done by Graham Dowdall (one of our key practitioners) for Sound Connections. Part 1 is the research and Part 2 is the Review and Guide
Link: http://www.sound-connections.org.uk/news/using-ipads-in-participatory-music-part-one-research
Organisation: Edutech
What’s it about:
A digitally based storytelling multimedia authoring environment for young children 3-8 year olds
Link: www.i-theatre.org
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