Just when you think…
December 1, 2008
there’s a grown up conversation happening about the arts the Sunday Tribune publishes this pointless article. Fearghus’s very gracious response is on his own blog here.
December 1, 2008
there’s a grown up conversation happening about the arts the Sunday Tribune publishes this pointless article. Fearghus’s very gracious response is on his own blog here.
December 1, 2008
I always look forward to Adam Phillips’ interpretation of fairy stories at this time of the year. So, from Saturday’s Guardian, here’s (part of) his take on Cinderella Freud’s infamous question “What does a woman want?” is both silly and mildly insulting, implying as it does that women in general…
November 28, 2008
I have just uploaded Andrew Taylor’s presentation to the New Media, New Audience? website and I’m pleased to share it with you here also. The conference website has presentations from other speakers and will continue to be updated as that data is made available to us.
November 26, 2008
213 people attended the Arts Council’s New Media, New Audience? conference at Dublin Castle yesterday – we hoped for 150 but quickly surpassed that. I’m biased but I think it was a useful and successful event – certainly ‘good enough’. Damien thinks so and then there are views from Emily,…
November 24, 2008
All quiet on the blogging front for the past week as I have been spending a lot of time talking and corresponding with bloggers, social media specialists, keynote speakers, artists and arts organisations in preparation for the Arts Council’s New Media, New Audience? Conference at Dublin Castle tomorrow. Sometimes taking…
November 13, 2008
Courtesy of the Guardian here are the 50 greatest videos on YouTube. There are some real finds in here including Katharine Hepburn gives a rare interview, 1973 ‘Can’t we have a stationary table?’ thunders Katharine Hepburn, 66, to one of the producers on The Dick Cavett Show. Hepburn rarely did…
November 11, 2008
This is a 20 minute interview (in two parts) with Ken Robinson put together by British Reporter Riz Kahn in which Robinson outlines his criticism of our western education models – created he argues for the industrial age and predicated on an outdated idea of talent. In part one of…
November 4, 2008
John Kelly (RTE’s The View and RTE Lyric FM’s JK Ensemble) has been confirmed as the chair of the upcoming Arts Council New Media, New Audience? conference at Dublin Castle on 25 November. Registration is free for the conference and it’s rapidly filling up so I’d encourage arts organisations and…
October 23, 2008
The Arts Council of Ireland is hosting a one day working seminar on the arts, new media and broadcasting on 25 November 2008 in Dublin Castle entitled New Media New Audience? (A disclaimer here – I have consulted to the Arts Council on the organisation of this event). The purpose…
October 1, 2008
This TED talk from Technorati’s Peter Hirshberg on how the relationship between TV and the Web has evolved is fascinating. There’s a lovely piece at the beginning where he interviews a group of ‘tweenies’ about which is more important TV or the web…you can probably guess the answer…There’s also interesting…