Funding from Digital R&D Fund for the Arts

There will be four projects that will analyse the potential of big data regarding the arts and culture sector have already been selected for funding through the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts.

These projects will explore how the industry can use data to develop new business strategies. They were created in response to an open call by Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Nesta.

The four big data projects to receive funding are:

Culture Counts (£300,000) –a project that will test a new set of metrics and an online platform to help arts and culture organisations across Manchester better understand the quality and impact of their work. At the event, audiences will be invited to give real time feedback.

Arts Data Impact (£299,985) – This project will embed the first ever Data Scientist-In-Residence for the Arts at the Barbican, English National Opera (ENO) and National Theatre to interrogate their ever-growing data resources.

ArtsAPI (£292,343) – A web service that will analyse and present data in order that arts organisations can show the value and impact they generate through their networks, helping them to create new and refined business models and propositions.

The Unusual Suspects (£184,325) – Nine art organisations in Newcastle and Gateshead will segment their audience data. This will enable them to develop a series of audience offers in order to test the possibilities of re engaging people to attend.

Besides these projects, another three were awarded for experimenting digital technologies in the arts field:

We are Colony (£124,993) is a digital distribution platform to launch films earlier and build a following. It allows filmmakers to release under-exploited additional and making-of content ahead of, or during, their film’s release.

Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins at Orphans of the Storm, Ocasta Studios Ltd, Dr Alison Gazzard at the Institute of Education, University of London and Daniel M Goodbrey at The University of Hertfordshire are working on Electricomics (£118,989), an app that allows people to explore narrative structures and create their own digital comics.

The Studio of Objects (£125,000) will create an iOS app using a 360-degree laser scan to record a studio, enabling audiences to explore artists’ worlds and work. Eduardo Paolozzi’s studio will be the first one recorded.

Digital R&D Fund for the Arts has supported 36 projects since its launch in 2012. The projects research and progress will be charted on Native, the Fund’s learning website.

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