Do you think NFTs are meaningless little drawings? Please, think twice / Piensan que los NFTs son pequeños dibujitos sin sentido? Por favor, piénsenlo dos veces
#FedericoAntin Federico Antin #ThePositiveGhetto #OpenSea #music #música #art #arte #photography #fotografía #design #diseño #culturalaffairs #gestióncultural #NFTs #DeFi #Crypto #tokens #community #comunidad #values #valores #Web3 #CreativeIndustries #IndustriasCreativas #OrangeEconomy #EconomíaNaranja #ICC
✔️ E-commerce Assistant for Creative Industries: Automating Customization and Production
✨An AI-powered e-commerce assistant that helps businesses in #CreativeIndustries automate #ProductCustomization, manage orders, and enhance customer experience.
#AIEcommerceAssistant #OrderManagement #Automation #InventoryTracking #EcommerceAutomation
🌍✨ Exciting news! The Composers Summit Prague is set for April 17-22, 2025! This event connects Czech talent with global leaders in film, music, and gaming, aiming to elevate the Czech Republic into the top 10 of modern economies through cultural and creative industries. Join us in celebrating innovation and creativity! 🎶🎮 #ComposersSummit #CzechTalent #CreativeIndustries #Innovation #CulturalEconomy
👉 Více informací najdete zde:
https://tiskovec.cz/clanky/kreativni-prumysly-jako-cesta-do-top-10-composers-summit-prague-propojuje-cesky-talent-se-svetem?utm_source=mastodon_czech&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_article
🌍✨ Exciting news! The Composers Summit Prague is set for April 17-22, 2025! This event connects Czech talent with global leaders in film, music, and gaming, aiming to elevate the Czech Republic into the top 10 of modern economies through cultural and creative industries. Join us in celebrating innovation and creativity! 🎶🎮 #ComposersSummit #CzechTalent #CreativeIndustries #Innovation #CulturalEconomy
👉 Více informací najdete zde:
https://tiskovec.cz/clanky/kreativni-prumysly-jako-cesta-do-top-10-composers-summit-prague-propojuje-cesky-talent-se-svetem?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_article
Africa: Culture Can Build a Better World - Four Key Issues On Africa's G20 Agenda: [The Conversation Africa] The cultural and creative industries are a growing source of income and job creation around the world, generating tens of millions of jobs. The cultural sector is also linked to soft power, to relations between countries. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKCNQh #Africa #Culture #G20 #CreativeIndustries #SoftPower
✍️ The journal Aniki has opened a call for papers for the dossier ‘Contemporary ‘Peripheral’ Spaces of the Moving Image’, which will be coordinated by Filipa Rosário (FLUL), André Francisco (FLUL), and Fran Rebelatto (UNILA).
👉 https://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/announcement/view/78
#Histodons #MovingImage #FilmStudies #CreativeIndustries #Periphery #Cinema #Television #ImagemEmMovimento #Periferia #EstudosFílmicos #IndústriasCriativas #Televisão #ComunidadesMarginalizadas #MarginalizedCommunities
Icons of Change Awards 2025
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Outstanding Contribution to the Arts and Entertainment
Mon Confiado
#IconsOfChange2025 #OutstandingInTheArts #SDG8 #DecentWorkAndEconomicGrowth #FilipinoCinema #CreativeIndustries #TheaterArts #PhilippineEntertainment #HeneralLuna #Goyo #SeniorHigh #HighStreet #Makiling #ActingExcellence #FilipinoTalentOnTheGlobalStage #RecognizingVisionEmpoweringTransformation
if these people have 20-30+ years experience in the TV industry, they surely would know this has been a problem for 3 decades, the rot set in during the 90s when the regional TV companies cannibalised each other and thousands of jobs were lost - first to go were the younger and minority staff (this was even before #streaming #media ) and they didn't get a #Grauniad column back then (it seemed folk in the #CreativeIndustries were in denial about what was happening)
UK Publishers Push Back on AI Copyright; Academic Libraries Shift to Subscription Model: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway https://selfpublishingadvice.org/ai-copyright/ #creativeindustries #academiclibraries #subscriptionmodel #e-bookaccess #UKpublishers #AIcopyright #News
With its fees-blind auction-based selection process Nottingham Television Workshop has been one of the key entry points for working class actors into TV (and media). Now after years of falling funding from ITV & BBC, the NTW is striving on a thin gruel of donations - if anyone is serous about rectifying the class-bias in the creative industries, here's a effective institution to support - and its not expensive!
Cheap at ten times the price!
In his column on the threat AI poses for UK creative industries (which is pretty clear & present) John Naughton also sums up the actions of Musk in America rather well:
'never entrust a delicate clock to a monkey. Even if he is as rich as Croesus'!
Its a concise but apposite warning that we have been too slow to understand, even if it now pretty clear as Musk's team of wreckers work their way through the US state administration.
#introduction we're a Scottish Research Network based at Edinburgh College of Art, co-directed by brilliant Abertay colleagues. To support and promote all kinds of research into animation and related disciplines in academia and industry. All welcome. Meet ups, seminars, conferences and sometimes cake. I'm also on here are as @doctor_nic #animation #games #creativeindustries
Africa: AU, AFRIMA Sign MOU to Boost African Music and Creative Industries: [This Day] The African Union (AU) and the All-Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) have formalized their partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote Africa's creative and cultural industries, particularly in music. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/THppBq #AfricanMusic #CreativeIndustries #AFRIMA #AfricanUnion #MusicAwards
We recently spoke with Kira O'Brien and Lucy Ockenden of Be Seen: Be Heard, a collective of creative industries professionals working toward a more inclusive industry through community engagement, education, and networking.
Read the full interview here: https://go.notch.one/bsbhinterview
#creativeindustries #liveevents #backstage #diversityequityinclusion
She wonders 🤔, in a world where cosplay and costume culture 🎭 boomed post-2014, how did Canada let a world-class asset slip away? The CBC costume department's closure wasn’t just a budget cut—it was a cultural misstep. #CreativeIndustries #CBC
£60 Million Government Boost for UK’s Creative Industries Sector Plan
New Funding Includes £5.5M for the UK Games Fund & £7M For UK Global Screen Fund – Glasgow & Edinburgh-Dundee Corridor Identified As Key UK Regions
Creative businesses and projects across the UK will receive government funding to help them grow as part of a major boost to the economy – marking the first step of the Government’s UK Creative Industries Sector Plan.
As part of its modern Industrial Strategy, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy announced how the Government plans to work with the sector to increase growth and investment, starting with a £60 million package of government support – including £5.5 million for the UK Games Fund, £7 million for the UK Global Screen Fund, as well as grassroots music venues and creative businesses to boost British music and film exports, to facilitate investment and innovation in communities, in turn supporting businesses and employment.
The funding is the first step towards delivering the Government’s Creative Industry Sector Plan, as part of the UK’s modern Industrial Strategy. It will set out the enormous growth potential of the sector and where the biggest opportunities are at home and in new markets abroad.It will identify what key barriers are currently holding back the sector’s growth potential, and government and industry’s shared commitment to overcoming them, laying the groundwork for the publication of the full Creative Industries Sector Plan due to be published in spring 2025.
At the UK Creative Industries Sector Plan launch event, the Culture Secretary announced that the priority regions for Creative Industries are the North East, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, Greater London, West of England, South Wales, Glasgow, Edinburgh-Dundee corridor, and Belfast.
Alongside this, the Government will provide additional funding, to six Mayoral Combined Authorities (North East, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, West of England) . This will maximise the strength of these areas to deliver growth and builds upon progress to provide an attractive business environment and encourage strong, continued investment in the creative industries for years to come.
In the near future, the Culture Secretary will also announce the Government is bringing forward changes so that shorter apprenticeships will be available from August 2025, recognising the particular needs of the creative industries, as one of its first steps towards a more flexible Growth and Skills Levy.
The government is working with industry, including through a Creative Industries Taskforce chaired by Baroness Shriti Vadera and Sir Peter Bazalgette, on the sector plan and there will be more detail and policy announcements made in the months ahead.
The £60 million package of support for the UK Creative Industries Sector Plan is comprised of:
127 creative businesses in 12 regions across England awarded a share of £3.6 million through the Create Growth Programme (CGP), delivered by Innovate UK. Grants will help firms like Borro, a children’s clothing rental platform in the West Midlands, and Tapocketa, an animation studio in Hertfordshire, to develop innovative new products, attract private investment and access one-to-one mentoring with industry experts.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said:
From film and fashion to music and advertising, our creative industries are truly world-class and play a critical role in helping us deliver on this Government’s mission to drive economic growth in all parts of the UK.
Our £60 million funding boost will support creative and cultural organisations across the UK to turbocharge growth by transforming local venues, creating jobs, supporting businesses and spreading opportunity across the country.
But this is by no means the limit of our ambitions, which is why the creative industries are at the heart of the forthcoming Industrial Strategy and will continue to play a key part in this Government’s Plan for Change.
The Government plans to create an attractive business environment to encourage strong, continued investment in the creative industries in the years ahead. The Government will design the sector plan with business, who have set out the barriers to growth, including skills and access to finance.
As a result the Government is also making a significant signal of intent ahead of the Spending Review by announcing positive changes to the way the British Business Bank, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and skills policy will prioritise the Creative Industries.
The British Business Bank, which supports £17.4 billion of finance to over 64,000 smaller businesses, has committed to increase its support for creative businesses to access the finance they need to grow.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said:
Our number one mission is to grow the economy and our creative industries are a British success story with a big part to play.
Building on our plans to boost our AI sector, this is another step as we go further and faster to deliver growth so we can put more money in people’s pockets.
Today’s summit comes as the Culture Secretary and Foreign Secretary David Lammy also confirmed the membership of a new Soft Power Council. The council will act as an advisory board to the UK Government and will bring together soft power and foreign policy experts to champion the UK abroad, and drive investment and growth at home.
Members include former rower and chair of UK Sport Katherine Grainger, former athlete and television presenter Baroness Grey-Thompson and V&A director Tristram Hunt.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy said:
Soft power is fundamental to the UK’s impact and reputation around the world. I am often struck by the enormous love and respect which our music, sport and educational institutions generate on every continent. But we have not taken a sufficiently strategic approach to these huge assets as a country. Harnessing soft power effectively can help to build relationships, deepen trust, enhance our security and drive economic growth.
That is why I have created the Soft Power Council to channel British expertise as we look to re-imagine Britain’s role on the world stage, reinvigorate alliances and forge new partnerships.
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A bit of Friday magic 🔮 Some of our team checked out the Warner Bros. Studios and learned about their #learning programme & the groundbreaking work on career pathways for #youngpeople in the #creativeindustries.
Scottish Government Seeks Input on Cultural Sector Support in New Survey
Scottish Culture Survey: The Scottish Government has launched a vital survey to gain valuable insights into how the cultural sector is currently supported in Scotland, and what changes are needed to serve its future needs best. This initiative comes alongside an independent review of Creative Scotland, the lead body for the country’s arts, screen, and creative industries.
The survey, which is entirely voluntary and takes approximately 15 minutes to complete, is open to all stakeholders across the Scottish cultural ecosystem. This includes individual creative practitioners, freelancers, businesses (inclusing games studios) national and local organisations actively involved in the sector, or anyone with an interest in how cultural support is delivered.
Your Voice Matters: Shaping the Future of Cultural Support
The Scottish Games Network invites all Scottish games developers and those across the games ecosystem to actively participate in this survey. Given the sector’s current position as one of 16 sub-sectors in the creative industries, our perspective is crucial in shaping the future landscape for cultural support in Scotland, ensuring the specific needs and challenges faced by video game developers (and more broadly the sector as a whole) are acknowledged and addressed.
The survey findings will directly inform the scope of the Scottish Government’s review of cultural sector support, including the independent review of Creative Scotland chaired by Dame Sue Bruce. By contributing your experiences and insights, you can directly influence the direction of future policies and initiatives aimed at empowering the Scottish cultural sector, including games.
Share the Survey – Widespread Input is Key
The Scottish Government is actively seeking a broad range of voices from across the cultural spectrum. To ensure a comprehensive view is obtained, we at the Scottish Games Network encourage you to share the survey link with your colleagues, friends and peers as widely as possible. This includes colleagues, fellow developers, industry professionals, and anyone with an interest in supporting the vibrant cultural landscape of Scotland.
Scottish Culture Survey Link and Deadline
You can access the survey directly through this link: https://forms.office.com/e/AhrX3BBtfp
The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 31st, 2025.
For any queries or additional support regarding the survey, please contact: jenny.young@gov.scot
By taking part in this survey, you have the opportunity to directly influence the future of cultural support in Scotland. Let’s work together to ensure the games industry thrives within a supportive and dynamic cultural ecosystem.
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> It says the UK’s framework for text and data-mining.. should be “.. as competitive” as the EU’s.. allowing the use of copyrighted material by AI firms provided they give copyright holders the ability to opt out.. tantamount to trampling on the rights of creative professionals and publishers.
#EdNewtonRex, the British composer and a prominent voice in the copyright debate, says the plan’s support for copyright overhaul is a “huge blow to the UK’s #CreativeIndustries”.
@bsmall2@mstdn.jp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9r023r1g7o.amp
Creative Scotland open fund is no more, massive shame for those working in the creative arts.
#art #design #creativescotland #scotland #UK #creativeindustries
