digital artisans
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Digital Artisans: COMPLEXITY AND OPPORTUNITY
RICHARD ADAMS
Me
Formerly: Painter, Academic, Principal, Creative Director, Coder, Tech Director
Currently: Microsoft Studios - Central Media
Expertise: Interactive TV, casual games
Also: author and artist, FRSA, BAFTA, Society of Authors
@dickyadams
Traditional model
Distributors
Corps
Publisher
Agent
Artist.Craftsperson
Impacts of digital
Effects
In 1801, before the advent of George Stephenson's Rocket, London had 1,117,000 people. After the invention, however, the population of London had more than doubled to 2,685,000 people in 1851.
Improved production techniques. Mass Production, giving cheaper goods with improved quality. The Railways and Steam ships which improved and quickened communications.
Positive social effects, less arduous work, and allowed mass movement of people. So that the interchange of ideas and social mobility improved.
The Railways gave us standard time. Networked electricity, without Steam turbines there would be no industrial production of Electricity.
Ubiquitous connectivity
Cheap technology/New Channels
Garage Band, Phones, Splice, Raspberry PI, Arduino, robot kits, Cinema quality cameras, 5D, 3d Printing, e-commmerce
Changing Economy and Society
Death of the machine age – Birth of the computer age Computing and connectivity are disrupting the role of the organs of state
Globalization the rise of big corporations and the fall of trade walls are creating a new economy
Kodak vs. Instagram: Changing Opportunities
Changing the media ecology
Death of Traditional Intermediaries, New aggregators, New Content Providers (You)
http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/2013/11/10/films-made-with-a-smartphone/
This is the same in Games, Cinema and TV
Devices, channels, services, content and people
Your world
50+ years Job instability
Economic instability
Lack of consensus
Rapid skills
change
Automation, first manual jobs and
now profession
al jobsConstant contractin
g
Globalization/
migration
Democratic tech and connectivit
y
Re emergence of the artisan
EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN TECHNOLOGIST
PORTFOLIO CAREER
RE EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN
Opportunities
Everything is digital Technology is invisible
Connectivity is ubiquitous Interface is behaviour
Opportunities are everywhere
The End Questions?
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