{"id":203,"date":"2021-02-09T12:18:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/?p=203"},"modified":"2021-02-10T15:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:44:46","slug":"digital-access-to-arts-and-culture-post-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2021\/02\/09\/digital-access-to-arts-and-culture-post-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Access to Arts and Culture post COVID 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/534\/misek-richard\">Dr Richard Misek<\/a> from Kent&#8217;s School of Arts&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/subjects\/film\">Film department<\/a>, has launched a new project which will explore widening access to arts and culture through streaming video<\/p>\n<p>Since the global spread of COVID-19, video streaming has emerged as perhaps the most popular and effective tool for maintaining access to arts and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Live streamed concerts, online film festivals, virtual gallery tours, Zoom-based performances and workshops, and countless other innovations in digital programming have helped physically-sited arts and culture institutions stay \u2018open\u2019, and provided locked-down audiences with desperately needed opportunities for cultural engagement and shared experience.<\/p>\n<p>The recent outpouring of creative alternatives to physically-sited events has also lifted former geographic and economic constraints on who can access arts and culture.<\/p>\n<p>The project, developed in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artscouncil.org.uk\">Arts Council England (ACE)<\/a> and digital support agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespace.org\">The Space, <\/a>focuses on providing arts and culture organisations of all sizes and from across the UK with specific, practical knowledge about how to manage their digital programming<b>.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Beyond this immediate goal, the project\u2019s longer-term aim is to establish a rigorous, statistically-based foundation of knowledge about how digital programming can be used to widen access to arts and culture, and increase the diversity of its audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Full details of the project can be found on the ICCI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries\/projects\/digital-access\">Projects<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: <a href=\"mailto:R.E.Misek@kent.ac.uk\">R.E.Misek@kent.ac.uk\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Richard Misek from Kent&#8217;s School of Arts&#8217; Film department, has launched a new project which will explore widening access to arts and culture through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2021\/02\/09\/digital-access-to-arts-and-culture-post-covid-19\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25727,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}