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are we entering a new digital renaissance?
Mar 17th
An interview with Gavin Artz by the CIIC – March 17th 2010
Originally published by the CIIC
http://www.creativeinnovation.net.au/Features/Are-we-really-entering-a-new-digital-Renaissance-.html
Collaboration is at the heart of innovation – an area very close to Gavin’s heart, in his role at ANAT, an Adelaide-based organisation that represents those people with a creative passion for emerging technologies.
“There are scientists and artists who are currently innovating and developing intellectual property in order to create and do what they do. However, this needs to be recognised in order to enable future innovation,” Gavin says.
“There is an opportunity now – at this time in history – which could be considered the ‘new renaissance’ where science, art, engineering, creativity and innovation come together. More >
AncillaryIPs: The wave
Jan 22nd
By Gavin Artz- January 22nd 2010
Origonally published on Mission Models Money
http://www.missionmodelsmoney.org.uk/blog/guest-posts/ancillaryips-the-wave/
“if I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”
- Henry Ford.
Commercialisation of intellectual property by creative practitioners has gone mostly unnoticed by the mainstream economy. Artsactive have a small catalogue of patents that have been derived from creative practice, but as a standard revenue stream it is poorly explored. At the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) we work with artists who are at the very forefront of science and emerging technology. It was noticed that through the processes encouraged by ANAT, artists were creating intellectual property when they encountered a technical roadblock in their work. They created code, machinery or processes in their endeavours to over come problems in achieving their creative vision. These AncillaryIPs (Artz 2008) had been mostly overlooked More >
Creative Cultural Practice and the Commercial in Harmony
Jan 14th
By Gavin Artz- January 14th 2010
Originally published on Mission Models Money
“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
As CEO of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) I have experienced artists going through the patent process, rapid prototyping, engaging in scientific research and producing new applications in digital media. There is a myth about those involved in creative practice, that they are not interested in business. There is a difference though between not wanting to be a businessperson and not wanting to be involved in business. Many creative practitioners are interested in engaging with business, being commercial, but they want to pursue their creative vision and not spend a majority of there time focused on business outcomes. We have a creative core in our societies that are some of our lowest income earners (Throsby & Hollister 2003); that seems absurd when we are told the economy relies on people creatively resolving problems. More >
Who’s afraid of the creative industries?
Nov 25th
By Gavin Artz -November 25th 2009
Originally published in Filter Magazine.
http://filter.anat.org.au/who%E2%80%99s-afraid-of-the-creative-industries/#more-2870
We have a problem. Artists consistently average annual salaries that place them in the low income bracket (Throsby & Hollister 2003). Despite decades of development through funding and the gradual professionalisation of artist support organisations, like the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), we have seen little improvement in financial outcomes for artist. This is a huge failing of our current way of conceiving of the arts. We see the arts as creative endeavours isolated from the world, both commercial and social, where strong individual voices within a critical art-world dialogue are more important than cultural or economic outcomes (Brooks 2008). More >
AncillaryIPs Embraced by Emerging Artists at TINA 2009
Oct 3rd
October 3rd 2009
AncillaryIPs was presented at This Is Not Art (TINA) 2009 as a part of a talk on making money in the media arts.
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The arts, innovation and commercial opportunities
Aug 24th
By Gavin Artz – August 24th 2009
Originally published for ISEA 2009
The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) has been working with art, science and technology for 21 years. It has only been relatively recent that the innovation potential of the arts, particularly those working with technology, has been understood. Myths relating to artists not wishing to be commercial and the active marginalising of the arts in intellectual property (IP) development has meant that the arts are overlooked as a source for commercially viable IP. Through my work at ANAT I have experienced artists going through the patent process, rapid prototyping, engaging in scientific research and producing new applications in digital media. More >
Academics at the Media Arts Congress 2009 “Inspired” by AncillaryIPs
Jul 4th
July 4th 2009
AncillaryIPs was presented to arts academics as a part of the Media Arts Congress 2009.
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