CAKE 9 - Smart Data Innovation

CAKE 9 - Smart Data Innovation

Creative Fuse North East's 9th CAKE (collaboration and knowledge exchange) event presents the opportunity to discuss, consider and present issues around using Smart Data to provide opportunities for innovation. The event will explore the ways in which companies can gain value from data and the benefits that large data sets can bring, discussing the establishment of a National Innovation Centre for Data in Newcastle; the role data has to play in local governance; and ways in which artists can incorporate data sets into their creative practise.

Confirmed Speakers:

Welcome Address by Richard Clay, Professor of Digital Humanities at Newcastle University

Rob Wilson, Director of the Knowledge Innovation Technology Enterprise (KITE) Research Centre

Professor Rob Wilson is the Director of the KITE Research Centre at Newcastle University. His work is based in three overlapping contexts - the integration and information aspects of public services; the challenges of information and measurement in local governance (the NHS, VCS/Third sector and local authorities) and the role of information and information systems in education. Follow @kiteresearch on twitter.

Ed Carter, Musician and Interdisciplinary Visual Artist

Ed Carter devises and creates interdisciplinary work that is context-specific, with a focus on sound, architecture, and process. He takes patterns, associations, and chronology, and uses these to form the structures that underpin his practice.

He has produced ambitious, large-scale work in collaboration with a wide range of partners including architects, scientists, boat builders, cartographers, and programmers, and has received commissions and awards from diverse organisations, such as Arts Council England, Ordnance Survey, Channel 4, PRS Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Future Everything, Sound And Music, AHRC, and the Royal Academy of Engineers.

A number of Ed’s works have referenced specific data sources, including historic lighthouse rhythms, amino acid chains associated with targeted cancer treatment, cartography, email interactions, and tidal river activity. Another recurring theme in his work relates to connections between architecture and music, resulting in musical compositions responding to The Lowry, the BAFTA headquarters, Sage Gateshead, and Singapore Art Museum.

Ed’s third album ‘Phonautogram’ was described by The Wire as “A work of consummate craftsmanship, as detailed and delicate as an old fashioned timepiece.”

http://edcarter.net

Lindsay Duncanson, Noize Choir

The Noize Choir is a performance ensemble of noise enthusiasts with a common desire to use the human voice free of the traditional restraints of choral settings, language or musical notation. They have a shared fascination with science, culture and landscape and include phenomenological imaginings of our geological past, replicating and experimenting with the sounds of machines or the natural world in their work.They indulge in phenomenological explorations of museum collections, or imaginings of our geological past. Replicating and experimenting with the sound of machines or the natural world, Noize Choir continually find ways to push and pull the idea of what a choir can be.

https://soundcloud.com/noizechoir

NOTES:

Creative Fuse North East – unlocking the true potential of the creative, digital and tech sectors to drive innovation & growth of the region’s economy.

Creative Fuse North East is delivered by the five regional Universities and will help create new means by which to release unrealised potential within the Creative Economy and broader business communities. Creative Fuse North East will equip organisations with new creative confidence and capacity to develop innovation partnerships and ways of working, in order to respond to the challenges that matter to them.

CAKE (collaboration and knowledge exchange) meetings take place every second Thursday of each month, bringing together businesses, academics, freelancers, charities and public sector organisations to hear three short, stimulating presentations or provocations on a theme, followed by networking, and of course, cake. Creativity, digital and IT (CDIT) will be at the heart of our discussions, but CAKE will cover any and all topics, and show the multiple ways CDIT impacts upon all our work and lives. We’re keen to hear your ideas for themes and presentations for future CAKE events.