The turtle to discuss the future of 'touch textiles' is taking place at 11am in the Harris Museum and is being run by Fiona Candy, a lecturer at UCLan.
The room itself is a small room in the gallery and each table is covered in a different material - Ms Candy says it will be interesting to see which table people choose to sit at.
Three questions will be debated over the course of the next few hours - how we can lessen the emotional value of touch and tactile communication being overlooked, how small scale production could ever be viable in the 'digital skills race' and the question of whether we need to explore new ways to make more time and space in our working lives to be creative.
Many of the participants are fashion MA students, who say they will be interested to see if this technique of debating will work for them.
Ms Candy says that the group expected today will be small, which is endemic of industries in which people are potentially afraid of digital change. She compares this to the Luddite movement, when cloth workers smashed machinery in fear of the looming industrial age. Is history repeating itself?
The Performance Futures turtle is going to discuss how live performance as we know it will interact with the new digital age.
Darren Tunstall, who lectures in Acting at the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the Univeristy of Central Lancashire sees avatars as an example of this. Darren is leading the turtle.
Avatars are a digital image of a real person. In the future actors may use them as stand-ins in online situations.
Actors could own this avatar and make them profitable, as they star in new animations for example.
In this context Darren is experimenting with a motion capture facility with his students, creating them avatars.
Despite this he believes there is still, "a hunger for people in front of your eyes communicating with you."
The best example of this is stand-up comedy. Darren believes this medium will not disappear, simply become more and more of a niche product.
Younger generations for example will be far less exposed to this medium.
This is not to say traditional arts are not adapting themselves to the digital age.
Theatre has always been a low-tech performance art, so it was easily transportable around the country.
However, groups such as the Station House Opera for example have experimented with performances where two cities are linked via a giant screen.
Blue screen technology also allowed peformers from the different cities to appear in the same scenes.
The three main questions of the turtle will be:
1 - What is the future for live performance in a digital world?
2 - What are the main issues to be tackled?
3 - What can people do to adapt to this change?
The first question of Tuesday's Mega Turtle held at the 53 Degrees asked the following:
How can the UK Government best support its creative entrepeneurs and innovators?
The main idea to come out of the discussion was the proposal of a change of mindset. Education should have an entrepreneurial focus from an early age. This should breed a collaboration between industries and education.
There was also a desire amongst the delegates for the promotion of the value of innovation, with design and innovation centres around the country.
Participants also believed there was also simply too much bureaucracy.
How can we enourage more collaboration across disciplines to the benefit of the UK economy?
The participants continued to emphasise the important role education has to play.
Some delegates believe that assessment is important from an early age, in order to encourage creative thinking.
Cross generational collaboration is also important. Not only between education and industry but also between different levels of education.
The particiapants also applauded the event itself, underlining how events of this kind encourage networking and collabortion between different sectors of the industry.
How do we ensure that the UK is nurturing and developing the necessary skills for individuals to participate, work and be entrepreneurial in a creative and digital economy?
The delegates once again underlined their belief in the role of education.
They think children should be nurtured in digital skills at a primary level with their experience developed during their teens.
Some delegates even see university degrees as quite restricting and students should be learning in a more freely creative environment.
This nurturing should include teaching enterprise skills, so when life in the real world begins people are encouraged to take risks.
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The room itself is a small room in the gallery and each table is covered in a different material - Ms Candy says it will be interesting to see which table people choose to sit at.
Three questions will be debated over the course of the next few hours - how we can lessen the emotional value of touch and tactile communication being overlooked, how small scale production could ever be viable in the 'digital skills race' and the question of whether we need to explore new ways to make more time and space in our working lives to be creative.
Many of the participants are fashion MA students, who say they will be interested to see if this technique of debating will work for them.
Ms Candy says that the group expected today will be small, which is endemic of industries in which people are potentially afraid of digital change. She compares this to the Luddite movement, when cloth workers smashed machinery in fear of the looming industrial age. Is history repeating itself?
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The Performance Futures turtle is going to discuss how live performance as we know it will interact with the new digital age.
Darren Tunstall, who lectures in Acting at the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the Univeristy of Central Lancashire sees avatars as an example of this. Darren is leading the turtle.
Avatars are a digital image of a real person. In the future actors may use them as stand-ins in online situations.
Actors could own this avatar and make them profitable, as they star in new animations for example.
In this context Darren is experimenting with a motion capture facility with his students, creating them avatars.
Despite this he believes there is still, "a hunger for people in front of your eyes communicating with you."
The best example of this is stand-up comedy. Darren believes this medium will not disappear, simply become more and more of a niche product.
Younger generations for example will be far less exposed to this medium.
This is not to say traditional arts are not adapting themselves to the digital age.
Theatre has always been a low-tech performance art, so it was easily transportable around the country.
However, groups such as the Station House Opera for example have experimented with performances where two cities are linked via a giant screen.
Blue screen technology also allowed peformers from the different cities to appear in the same scenes.
The three main questions of the turtle will be:
1 - What is the future for live performance in a digital world?
2 - What are the main issues to be tackled?
3 - What can people do to adapt to this change?
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How can the UK Government best support its creative entrepeneurs and innovators?
The main idea to come out of the discussion was the proposal of a change of mindset. Education should have an entrepreneurial focus from an early age. This should breed a collaboration between industries and education.
There was also a desire amongst the delegates for the promotion of the value of innovation, with design and innovation centres around the country.
Participants also believed there was also simply too much bureaucracy.
posted by: reporter - view / reply
How can we enourage more collaboration across disciplines to the benefit of the UK economy?
The participants continued to emphasise the important role education has to play.
Some delegates believe that assessment is important from an early age, in order to encourage creative thinking.
Cross generational collaboration is also important. Not only between education and industry but also between different levels of education.
The particiapants also applauded the event itself, underlining how events of this kind encourage networking and collabortion between different sectors of the industry.
posted by: reporter - view / reply
How do we ensure that the UK is nurturing and developing the necessary skills for individuals to participate, work and be entrepreneurial in a creative and digital economy?
The delegates once again underlined their belief in the role of education.
They think children should be nurtured in digital skills at a primary level with their experience developed during their teens.
Some delegates even see university degrees as quite restricting and students should be learning in a more freely creative environment.
This nurturing should include teaching enterprise skills, so when life in the real world begins people are encouraged to take risks.
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As became clear during the Mega Turtle, the importance of education was the main outcome.
The participants believed there should be nuturing from a young age in particular with regards to enterprise and self reliance
Pupils should experience during high school and be taught business skills alongside creative ones.
All this must come in an environment of collaboration between education and industry.
The event itself was also considered a success, as it considers collaboration within the industry.
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