[artinfo] my-ci: network of creative industries researchers & practitioners

[Geert Lovink]

Invitation to join "my-ci", a new email list on the "creative industries"

MyCreativity: International Network of Creative Industries 
Researchers & Practitioners

Conference: 17-18 November, 2006, Amsterdam

If you want to subscribe, please visit: http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/my-ci

On November 17-18, 2006 the Institute of Network Cultures and the 
Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster will organise 
MyCreativity, a Convention of International Creative Industries 
Researchers. MyCreativity is a two-day conference that intends to 
bring the trends and tendencies around the Creative Industries into 
critical question. It seeks to address the local, intra-regional and 
trans-national variations that constitute international creative 
industries as an uneven field of actors, interests and conditions. 
The conference explores a range of key topics that, in the majority 
of cases, remain invisible to both academic research and 
policy-making in the creative industries.

Overall, the conference adopts a comparative focus in order to 
illuminate the variability of international creative industries. Such 
an approach enables new questions to be asked about the mutually 
constitutive tensions between the forces, practices, histories and 
policies that define creative production, distribution and 
organisation within an era of information economies and network 
cultures.This conference wishes to bring these trends and tendencies 
into critical question. It seeks to address the local, intra-regional 
and trans-national variations that constitute international creative 
industries as an uneven field of actors, interests and conditions. 
The conference explores a range of key topics that, in the majority 
of cases, remain invisible to both academic research and 
policy-making in the creative industries.

Topics include:

= Critique of Creative Industries
= Creative Labour and Precarity
= Creative Industries--Made in Europe
= Creative Industries and the Arts
= Complementary and Alternative Business Models
= Subterranean Creativity

In preparation for this event a mailing list has been set up (see 
above for url). We are interested in this list opening up to people 
engaged in activities that relate to the creative industries, however 
that term may be understood.  So if you're an artist, policy analyst, 
academic, web designer, programmer, careers adviser, journalist, 
architect, musician, filmmaker, property speculator, sound engineer, 
working in service industries and... what else? Your call. Please 
join our list for preparatory discussions and debates that aim to add 
details to how we make sense of the creative industries.

Materials from the list will not only build an archive on the 
creative industries in the months leading up to the convention, they 
may also filter their way into the publication we will assemble in 
the months following the event.  So please consider joining the 
MyCreativity mailing list, and posting your ideas, experiences, 
essays, reports, critiques, etc. The list will be a vehicle for a 
hopefully lively and diverse research network. It is planned that the 
list will continue after the November event in Amsterdam.

Confirmation of speakers will be announced soon. The list will start 
in the first week of May.

MyCreativity: Convention of International Creative Industries Researchers
Date: 17-18 November, 2006
Venue: Club 11, Post CS Building, Amsterdam
Organisation: Institute of Network Cultures, HvA Interactive Media, 
and Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster
Collaborators: All Media Foundation and The Sandberg Institute
Concept: Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter
Contact: Sabine Niederer, sabine(at)networkcultures.org
http://www.networkcultures.org/mycreativity/