South West Creative Technology Network: Automation Showcase
Please note: This event took place in Oct 2020
Our friends South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) invite you to spend the day online to celebrate and share their year of deep thinking and prototype-making by artists, technologists, health and education professionals, engineering and manufacturing experts, architects, academics and researchers, in the field of Automation.
Automation is changing the way we live. It could be seen as the ‘quiet’ revolution – working in the background to assist in creative processes, gradually transforming agriculture through robotics, or re-imagining how we search the internet. Over the last year, SWCTN has invested over £600,000 into exploring Automation and its applications - exploring how it can develop in a way that is ethical, promotes wellbeing, connects us to one another and creates value in the world.
With over 30 free sessions to choose from throughout the day you can expect to:
- Be the first to engage with new products, services and experiences being developed through our automation prototype programme
- Participate in interactive experiences created by artists in the South West
- Join our Knowledge Exchange team as they share our learning and manifesto for connecting research and development, and academia and industry
- Think about the future (and past) of inclusion and creative technology, and work with us to make change
- Dive into the research from our 24 Fellows who have been exploring the frontiers of automation technology
- Meet our Producer Fellows as they discuss their learning on the role of the Producer in art and technology innovation
Visit the SWCTN website to view the full schedule and book your ticket.
About SWCTN:
The South West Creative Technology Network is a project to expand the use of creative technologies across the region. The network has offered three one-year funded programmes around the themes of immersion, automation and data. The grant is part of Research England’s Connecting Capabilities Fund, which supports university collaboration and encourages the commercialisation of products made through partnerships with industry.
This new network is led by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), in partnership with Watershed Bristol, Kaleider in Exeter, Bath Spa University, University of Plymouth and Falmouth University