Last November I attend the Arts Council’s New Media, New Audience? Conference held at Dublin Castle. Chaired by John Kelly, the day long event was held to ‘explore the ways in which artists and the public are adapting and adopting new ways of producing, presenting and promoting the arts.’
We heard from many different speakers through-out the day, Charles Leadbetter and Andrew Keen began the day with a sparring match discussing the idea that the internet is destroying our cultures, versus the idea that we have not yet discovered the potential of Web 2.0.
Up to this point, I had always felt I was little more web savvy than my friends and family…oh how wrong I was. We spent the rest of the day hopping from seminars, and smaller sessions, hearing from the likes of online communciation guru Damien Mulley, Cathy Fitzgerald of Artlinks, Nicky Gogan ofDarklight Film Festival and Andrew Taylor, Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, USA.
Since then, I often wondered what the uptake would be by arts organisations and new medias. I’ve done a little twitter researching and discovered quite a few irish arts and cultural organisations online. Let me know if you find any more!
Model Niland Sligo
Sligo Jazz
Cork Midsummer Festival
St. Patrick’s Festival Dublin
Visit Dublin
Circa Art Magazine
Irish Museums
IMC
Druid Theatre, Galway
Arts Show, Galway Bay FM
Contemporary Music Centre
Arts Ireland
Poetry Ireland
Belfast Book Festival
Journal of Music
Irish Film Board
RTÉ Arts
Dublin Film Festival
Day & Night Mag (Irish Independent)
Cineword Ire & UK
Abbey Theatre
Irish Modern Dance Theatre
The Pavillion Theatre
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Irish Music Television
Imagine Arts Festival Waterford
The Linenhall Arts Centre
Science Gallery
The Bubble
State Magazine
Electric Picnic Art & Music Festival
5 Comments
March 25, 2009 at 10:18 pm
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April 27, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Also http://practice.ie/ is using Twitter http://twitter.com/practice_ie
April 27, 2009 at 10:30 pm
good post denise. that was a very interesting conference…really hoping more is going to come from it.
@thedockarts is trying to twitter
July 21, 2009 at 8:59 am
Hi Denise
Didn’t know you had done this great review – can I get you to add ArtLinks.ie to your blogroll – its now the biggest arts directory in the south east with 1210+ members. ArtLInks is also on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/artlinks
ArtLinks also has 20 powerpoint presentations from its professional development courses, licensed under Creative Commons for the Arts at http://www.slideshare.net/artlinks, including the talk I gave at the Arts Council new media day.
Thanks Denise
Cathy
September 16, 2009 at 8:33 pm
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