Economies of Value: A Seminar interrogating the roles, levels and definitions of value in media arts practice and partnerships.

SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8 3RH

Tuesday 5 February 2008 10.30 am – 5 pm

Distributed South invites you to join us in a seminar which will examine issues of value and its measurement, paying particular reference to Media Arts sector and partnership working. We will focus on resource exchange and the value of research conducted by artists and organisations, through the development of work, residencies and placements.

Contributions from key economists in the field of cultural and creative management will enable us to look at systems that are being modelled to measure value in networks and groups. Alongside these systems, projects designed to focus on measuring value and exchange through social networking and information/resource exchange will demonstrate new methods of measurement. Programme Registration and refreshments

Introduction Gini Simpson + Helen Sloan – Distributed South

Key note Adam Arvidsson Author of ‘The Crisis of Value and the Ethical Economy’

Lunch Panel Discussion: Measuring value
Evelyn Wilson, LCACE – chair
Anthony Iles, Mute
Rachel Baker, ACE, London
Hewlett Packard Respondent: TBC

Tea

Panel Discussion: Examples of practice
David Cotterell, Interact Artist in residence,
SEOS Sarah Thelwall, Director, Mycake online evaluation
Birgitte Aga, Project Manager, Co_here, i-DAT
Phil Meyer and Niki Gomez, Interact artists residency, Brazil

Respondent: Neal White, Bournemouth Centre for Computer Animation and Office of Experiments/ Artists Placement Group TBC

Summary Led by Evelyn Wilson

Closing drinks