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How can we use technology to connect people to the arts? The Knight Foundation is seeking ideas through this open call
Culture can move quickly, aided by our devices, whether it’s a virtual museum tour, a live-streamed concert or crowdsourced poetry. And we’re only at the beginning of this curve. Technology offers a myriad of opportunities for art, expanding how it challenges us, triggers reflection, awakens empathy and connects us to our communities. Innovations have the potential to provide arts organizations with new ways to connect with audiences and create deeply engaging experiences that inform and delight.
But how do we ensure that arts organizations, and artists themselves, take advantage of these opportunities, instead of lagging behind their audiences in the adoption of technology? Today, Knight Foundation is opening a call for ideas focused on this issue. It centers around a question: How might cultural institutions use technology to connect people to the arts?
Projects supported through this effort will benefit from $50,000 to create a prototype of their idea. We hope to invest in projects that have provocative questions at their core that can only be answered through the act of making them a reality. Grantees will join together over a nine- month sprint to learn innovation techniques and test ideas.
You can learn more about what we’re looking for, and apply by 11:59 p.m. March 6 at PrototypeFund.org.
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Social Media Manager, V&A, London
£35,000 Per Annum
The V&A is looking for a Social Media Manager to join its busy marketing department and promote all aspects of the V&A including its world-renowned exhibition programme and collections. You will direct and implement an ambitious social media strategy for the V&A in South Kensington and the V&A Museum of Childhood, conceiving, commissioning, creating and producing compelling content for our social media channels, to both build reach and deepen engagement with our audiences and to drive revenue. Being the internal social media champion, you will drive an innovative, social-media savvy culture across the organisation, providing leadership, support, guidance and training for other teams.
Deadline is 9 March. Interviews to be held on Tuesday 20 and Thursday 22 March 2018.
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STARTS Prize 2018 – Grand prize of the European Commission honoring innovation in technology, industry and society stimulated by the arts
Appointed by the European Commission, Ars Electronica, BOZAR and Waag Society are launching a prize to select the most pioneering collaborations and results in the field of creativity and innovation at the crossings of science and technology with the arts.
Two prizes, each with €20,000 prize money, are offered to honour innovative projects at the intersection of science, technology and the arts: one for artistic exploration, and thus projects with the potential to influence or change the way technology is deployed, developed or perceived, and one for innovative collaboration between industry/technology and art/culture in ways that open up new paths for innovation.
The STARTS Prize open call ends on March 2nd, 2018.
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