ACE hands £800,000 contract to ‘radical transformation’ consultants
Arts Council England (ACE) has awarded an £833,000 contract for “service design and digital transformation support” to a London-b…
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Artist-supported amendment to AI bill defeated in Commons vote
An amendment to proposed government legislation designed to give greater protection for creative work has been defeated by MPs.The…
Initiative aims to tackle ‘class crisis’ in UK writing
A new initiative created to support working class writers has been launched by New Writing North. The Bee consists of a website, l…
Arts centre partners with bank to boost customer experience
An arts centre in Dorset is set to team up with software engineers from the international bank JPMorgan Chase to develop technolog…
Equity calls on video games industry to introduce union-negotiated agreements
Equity has called on video game bosses to improve pay, terms and conditions for performers in the industry.A protest at the BAFTA…
Tax breaks and ‘streamer levy’ urgently needed to support UK’s drama sector, MPs say
A new report has called for an urgent package of support for the UK’s ‘crisis-hit high quality drama sector’. The report from the…
Arts and culture websites ‘among worst for accessibility’
A new report has revealed museum, theatre and gallery websites rank among the worst performing in terms of meeting accessibility n…
Nandy: UK will not make tariff deal if it harms creatives
Any trade deal with the US to lower tariffs on goods exported to the country will not go ahead if it is harmful to creatives, Cult…
National Videogame Museum announces new trustees
The National Videogame Museum has appointed five new trustees to the board of its governing charity with a further four set to joi…
Reclaiming relevance: How museums can captivate Gen Z and Alpha in a digital-first world
YuJune Park and Caspar Lam are partners at multidisciplinary design studio Synoptic Office and professors at New York’s Parsons…
EXCLUSIVE: ACE apologises following ‘concerning data breach’
Arts Council England (ACE) has apologised to cultural organisations after ticket sales figures uploaded to the controversial Illum…
Online harms: How to protect yourself from social media abuse
Online spaces provide enormous opportunities to connect and share, but they are often overtaken by hateful and abusive behaviour….
UK music streaming revenues top £1bn for the first time
The UK music streaming market broke the £1bn barrier for the first time in 2024, new figures published by the British Phonographi…
Your go-to guides to AI
We are at an inflection point with AI. To help cut through the noise, Substrakt’s Katie Moffat has curated a list of the current…
The lessons we learned from Covid – then forgot
In the first of our series reflecting on the pandemic five years on, Splitpixel’s Lauren James is sad that some of the lessons l…
Ministers consider changes to AI plans after lobbying from artists
Ministers are considering changes to proposals that would allow AI developers to use creators’ content to help train their model…
Artists publish silent album to protest AI copyright proposals
Over 1,000 musicians have released a silent album to protest the government’s proposed changes to copyright law. Under the propo…
A digital strategy for the UK cultural sector
Researcher Susan Oman spent two years embedded within DCMS on a policy fellowship. Here they explain why the resultant digital pol…
CreaTech: A lever for growth?
A new report on the intersection of creativity and technology – CreaTech – is published this week. Its findings, according to…
The power of nine: Creating a community of digital practice in library services
What happens to a library’s capacity for creative expression and innovation when knowledge is shared among nine services? asks T…
Substrakt executive director steps down
ASH MANN has announced that after nine years with digital agency Substrakt, he will be leaving to provide freelance digital suppo…
Ticketmaster tells MPs price rises during purchase are ‘an illusion’
Prices of concert tickets sold by Ticketmaster do not change between the time they are added to an online basket and the point of…
KCL lands grant to explore AI for screen archives
King’s College London (KCL) has been awarded a grant of £192,500 to investigate how AI technologies could be used in screen arc…
Reducing the carbon footprint of your digital activity
It’s tempting to dismiss digital sustainability as too big of a challenge to tackle, writes Substrakt’s Zosia Poulter. But the…
