Proboscis | SoMa | P2P creative labs

LSE May 2003 | Brighton June 2003

Creative Interventions:
Digital Technologies, Public Libraries & Archives

DATE	6th June 2003
TIME	1.30pm to 5.30pm
VENUE	Sussex Arts Club 7 Ship Street Brighton BN1 1AD
	Sussex Arts Club 7 Ship Street Brighton BN1 1AD
MAP	Street Map

THE EVENT
A half-day Platform for Creative Innovation bringing together people from the arts, library sector and digital media business. The Lab aims to stimulate cross-sector partnerships and collaborations which innovate the use of digital media in libraries and archives, through experimentation and play, to create new routes of access.

THEME
New ways to access and create social knowledge are being stimulated by the influx of digital technologies into public libraries and archives.

Libraries and archives now serve new consitituencies in addition to their traditional user base – those who use the paper-based materials (books, newspapers, magazines etc), visual and sound materials (video tapes, DVDs and Audio CDs) as well as computer and internet users.

Public libraries offer unique user-centred environments where ordinary citizens are familiar with accessing and creating knowledge. Emerging technologies offer innovative and creative ways to aggregate and diffuse social and local knowledge, widening access and participation in heritage and learning.

The kinds of questions the Lab is designed to address are:

Creative Connections: How might creative connections be made between analogue and digital media to widen participation and access to culture and knowledge?
Enhancing Relevance: How can creative uses of digital technologies enhance the relevance of libraries and archives to unconventional audiences?
Provenance of Knowledge: Who controls the archiving and distribution of social knowledge and how does that impact on access to it?

AIMS
P2P Lab Brighton offers an opportunity to:

explore new ideas of using digital media
imagine how to address overlooked audiences
play with possibilities of future technologies
inspire exploration of knowledge and the creation of cross-overs between digital and analogue media
brainstorm new forms of social interaction and spaces for learning through innovative applications of play and digital media.

OUTCOMES
The day is intended to inspire the participants to explore creative cross-overs between disciplines and media, and imagine the new spaces and forms of social interactions they imply. Specifically we expect the Lab to:

imagine some creative uses of current digital media in library and archive settings
inspire some potential solutions for how to address overlooked audiences
anticipate future technologies that might come into play in library & archive settings (and creative uses thereof)

STRUCTURE
P2P Lab Brighton is transdisciplinary, non-proprietary and public.
Places for the Creative Lab are limited to 25.

TIME ACTIVITY

1.30pm: Arrival and registration

2pm Welcome & P2P Lab introduction by Alice Angus (Convenor)

2.15pm Lighthouse introduction by Evelyn Wilson

2.25pm
Proboscis Presentation:
Urban Tapestries – Giles Lane

2.35pm
Presentation:
Navigating History – Deborah Smith

2.45pm
Presentation:
Getfrank – Jim Byford

3pm General Discussion chaired by Niki Strange

3.30m coffee break

3.45pm: Groups Discussion

4.30pm: Groups Feedback

4.45pm: General Discussion chaired by Niki Strange

5.30pm Wrap up

INVITED PARTICIPANTS:

NAME AFFILIATION
CONFIRMED

Alice Angus
Proboscis

Yes

Margaret Ann SEMLAC
Yes

Phil Blume multimedia director
Yes

Greg Daville artist
Yes

Dion Ellis artist
Yes

Tessa Fitzjohn Arts Council England, South East
Yes

Stephanie Fuller Arts Council England, South East
Yes

Fred Garnett Becta
Yes

Dr Tom Hamilton Worth Media
Yes

Katrina Jungnickel Proboscis
Yes

Giles Lane Proboscis
Yes

Rachel Murphy Rudegirl Designs
Yes

Alice Ross Lighthouse Media Centre
Yes

Kate Rouse Libraries & Museums Section
Brighton & Hove City Council
Yes

Pauline Rutter Lighthouse Media Centre
Yes

Helen Sloan SCAN
Yes

Deborah Smith independent curator
Yes

Niki Strange Digital Media Consultant
Yes

Zoe Sujon
London School of Economics
Yes

Michael Wenyon artist, Wenyon & Gamble
Yes

Evelyn Wilson Lighthouse Media Centre
Yes

Event facilitation:
Giles Lane, Alice Angus & Katrina Jungnickel (Proboscis)
Evelyn Wilson & Alice Ross (Lighthouse)
Discussion Chair: Niki Strange

BACKGROUND
Peer2Peer (P2P) is an informal network of people interested in developing collaborations and practical solutions for partnerships across the arts, industry and academia. P2P consists of individual artists and designers and people from academia, industry, public funding agencies, private foundations and government. P2P was founded and is managed by Proboscis as part of the SoMa (social matrices) research programme.

P2P Creative Lab Brighton is presented by Proboscis and Lighthouse with the generous support of Arts Council England, South East.

LINKS:
Proboscis
Lighthouse Media Centre

If you are interested in taking part please contact Alice Angus for further information.