4 Years as a Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective

Tate Exchange AssociateDigital Maker Collective, Year 4Means, Motives, MethodsCCW Staff Conference 2019. Chris Follows, CCW Emerging Technologies Manager

Link to video files in the presentation:

SKY NEWS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaOBOtG81Gw&feature=youtu.be

Pre Tate meeting & set up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XlhCsFQHg&feature=youtu.be

Transcript

1. Tate Exchange Associate Digital Maker Collective, Year 4 Means, Motives, Methods CCW Staff Conference 2019 Chris Follows, CCW Emerging Technologies Manager
3. 3 Tate Exchange: Sky News Feature 2018 Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019 Arts Work of the Future Featured on Sky News weekend March 2018 Event engaged a massive 3981 public visitors including 2200 public visitors over the weekend as a result of the SKY News coverage.
4. 4 4th year as Tate Exchange Associate Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019 2018 2019 2017 2020
5. 5 4th year as Tate Exchange Associate Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019 2018 Probe: Complex Emergent Practice 2019 Analyse: Complicated Good Practice 2017 Chaotic: Novel Practice 2020 Categorise: Obvious Best Practice
6. 6 End goal - curriculum integration: Categorise ¢ cross college ¢ course ¢ discipline E.g. a new model like Makerspace or a new process like VR or 3d printing Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
7. Motives
8. 8 Tate Exchange & DMC not just a week-long event • Voluntary Creative Tech R&D • Year round meet ups • External events (not just Tate) • Tech skills/people- CCW capacity • College projects (makerspace) • Course experimentation (Intro ML) • Tech industry collaboration Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
9. 9 DMC & other Associates are Tate Exchange Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
10. 10 Back of House & Front of House: Personal perspectives – confidence, motivations, experience Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
11. 11 Responding to a Chaotic digital landscape: 2015 Extra-curricular activities: Probe Emergent Practice ¢ Chelsea Jam 2015 ¢ UAL, alumni, staff & students ¢ shared motivations & interests ¢ external collaborators ¢ digital makerspace community ¢ building relationships, first dates ¢ Think about long term, future capacity Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
12. 12 Extra-curricular projects & events 2016: Analyse Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019 • Student, tech meet ups • prepared for an audience • first in-house audience • Pop Up Makerspace 2016 • MOZFEST 2016 • FABLAB staff development • Tech Conference
13. 13 Tate Exchange Associate invite 2016 Huge incentive – Digital Maker Collective - DMC created Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
14. Means & Methods
15. 15 Team, Kit & Platform Event development & audience engagement Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
16. 16 Tate Exchange UAL/CCW Teams Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019 DMC primarily reliant on voluntary participation • event planning meetings • programme development • workshop development • production meetings
17. 17 Tate Exchange UAL/CCW Teams Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019 Managing event planning • open participation • roles & hierarchies • equal participation • invited participants • participant expectations • programme development
18. 18 Course involvement in Tate Exchange events • WCA Print & Time Based Media • Camberwell Photography • WCA BA Fine Art • WCA Ars Electronica Centre Linz • MA Games Design, LCC • MAID CSM Open Design Manufacturing Project • Other schools, colleges & HEIs Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
19. 19 Essential: Industry experts sharing tech expertise Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
20. 20 Kit ¢ DMC primarily reliant on students & alumni to supply emergent tech ¢ college investment in R&D kit can have huge impacts, however small ¢ access to emerging tech from industry collaborators is essential Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
21. 21 Platform ¢ Tate Exchange provides an amazing incentive ¢ large platform like Tate Exchange is a challenge ¢ funding, event costs, associate fees, event designs, promo, travel ¢ planning and responsibility, health & safe and safe guarding etc. ¢ Lots of commitment Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
22. 22 Platform audiences Engaging audiences – different publics ¢ Tate public – challenges – maintain mutual beneficial exchange ¢ Invited public: DMC, UAL & Event collaborators ¢ Invite new people who don’t normally go to Tate ¢ Media & press coverage e.g. impacts of SKY NEWS coverage Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
23. What Next
24. 24 Spatial Computing: location based entertainment Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
25. 25 DMC + Industry + Curriculum + Tate Exchange Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
27. 27 Help us create a new space where the art world meets the tech world ¢ Demystify and unpack the creative power of the tech industries ¢ Transform Tate Exchange into an open & accessible ‘Test Bed' for creative tech, a space for all to explore and question the world of tech business & future technologies. ¢ Immersive CoLab space and Co-Creation Studio, help define the future of new immersive arts from location-based experiences to holographic entertainment and question the world of tech from facial recognition to the smart city. Tate Exchange Associate, Digital Maker Collective, Year 4. Means, Motives, Methods, CCW Staff Conference 2019
28. Thank you Chris Follows c.follows@arts.ac.uk