Brighton Dome is the major arts and cultural provider in Brighton and Hove and offers year-round high quality performances across all art forms. In May Brighton Dome also produces the annual Brighton Festival – a high-profile, three-week international producing and commissioning arts festival. This case study describes how the Brighton Dome redeveloped its website and digital platforms … Read more
Bradley Manning, the young US soldier who was convicted of releasing the largest set of classified documents ever leaked to the public, spent his early years in west Wales. In 2013 the National Theatre Wales’ (NTW) production The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, toured around Wales before appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe. Early on in the production process … Read more
Seb Chan shares his thoughts on Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s shift from a zero tech to a high tech organisation and the impact it had on the organisation.
In this article, Owen Buttolph, Business Analyst at MediaCom Edinburgh, considers the different roles that digital devices (mobile, tablet, laptop) can play in our lives based on how we use them and the implications for digital marketing activity. It makes reference to a recent study published in the Journal of Advertising Research that explored the effectiveness … Read more
Before diving into (or running away from) the latest technologies it is worth thinking strategically about how they can be used to extend or add value to your marketing activity. If you’re not already familiar with the new tool that you are considering, get online and try it out.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Google Creative Lab considered the question: “what would a play look like on the internet?” The outcome was an ambitious idea to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream in real-time over the course of three days in June 2013. Characters in Midsummer Night’s Dreaming (#dream40) also shared snippets – photos, text updates … Read more
As part of the celebrations in 2013 to mark the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten, one of the best known composers of the 20th Century, the Britten-Pears Foundation produced an online interactive resource and an iPad app based around one of his best known orchestral works: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. The … Read more
Forced Entertainment is a theatre company based in Sheffield, UK, who produces contemporary devised performances that tour worldwide. In April 2013, they performed one of their most popular pieces – Quizoola! – continuously for 24 hours at the Barbican as part of the SPILL festival. The entire piece was streamed online via a live webcast and Twitter users were … Read more
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is the UK’s leading media arts centre based in Liverpool. Can you hear me? I can see you! was FACT’s year-long programme working with residents of Sheltered Housing across Liverpool, Wigan and Warrington. Supported by the Baring Foundation, the programme set out to build the digital literacy of the … Read more
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is the UK’s leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool. This case study describes how FACTs milestone project ‘Flunstellas’ took digital technology into the classroom and embedded it within curriculum-based learning. Working with Year 7 and 8 students from Weatherhead Media Arts College and emerging artist, Neil Winterburn, … Read more