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UCL Art Futures Town Hall
05 July 2021, 10:00 am–11:00 am
Learn more about the new initiative UCL Art Futures at this free online event for UCL staff.
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff
Organiser
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UCL Art Futures, a collaboration between UCL Innovation & Enterprise, Faculty of Laws and Slade School of Fine Art
Overview
This town hall provides an opportunity to learn more about UCL Art Futures, engage with the team and the wider community, and share your ideas for collaboration, amplification and knowledge exchange.
UCL Art Futures brings together UCL academics, creative sectors and industry partners to create new partnerships, business opportunities and research. Our goal is to support new ways of working and deliver innovative products and services at the intersection of art, technology and laws.
UCL Art Futures offers access to multi and interdisciplinary research for artists, freelancers and producers and equally, creativity for industry. In doing so, it highlights and amplifies UCL’s engagement with London’s creative community.
Who it's for
This event is open to UCL academic, research and professional services members of staff.
What to expect
You'll hear about the goals of the initiative, and progress to date, from the co-founders of UCL Art Futures.
We're also keen to explore your ideas in the following areas:
- creation, including audience experience, performance, data as material, collaboration
- protection, including authenticity, security, provenance, production, decentralisation, IP
- education, including archive, digital heritage, identity bias, ethics
- curation, including AI, architecture for content, digital transformation, cultural value
Date and time
This event will take place online on Tuesday, 5 July 2021 from 10am to 11am.
Image: Liminal: Film Screenings. Tate Britain, 2013. © Kieren Reed and Abigail Hunt
About the Speakers
Dr Anna Donovan
Lecturer in Law, UCL Faculty of Laws, and co-founder of UCL Art Futures
A former corporate solicitor in London, and qualified to practice in New York, Anna’s work focusses on issues of corporate law and governance, together with emerging technologies such as distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Kieren Reed
Director, Slade School of Fine Art, and co-founder of UCL Art Futures
Kieren’s art research encompasses sculpture, public art, performance and installation, technology - from studies in form to the production of architectural structures. His art is most often linked to a process, place, site or a consideration of a space or situation.
Jo Townshend
Principal Partnerships Manager (Creative sectors), UCL Innovation & Enterprise, and co-founder of UCL Art Futures
Jo’s work sits at the interface of academic research and industry. She's responsible for identifying and developing strategic partnerships, specialising in facilitating multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations with the performing, production and visual arts, museums, galleries and business.