[spectre] 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/