Among an expert audience of 100 film, TV and arts practitioners, Maggie Brown could find no one to speak up in defence of the £16m digital platform 'The Space'.
Ruth Mackenzie has just flown in from Beijing, where she was signing up Ai Weiwei to create an artwork for The Space. Mackenzie, the woman largely credited with making the 2012 Cultural Olympiad such a success, became launch director of the website for digital arts last year – and has clearly been out spending some of the £16m now in its kitty, following its summer relaunch.
“I am not going to pretend we are perfect,” she says when I mention some of the criticism levelled at the site, which was created by Arts Council England in 2012 and aims to find the digital Leonardos, the online artists of the future... Keep reading on The Guardian
Ruth Mackenzie has just flown in from Beijing, where she was signing up Ai Weiwei to create an artwork for The Space. Mackenzie, the woman largely credited with making the 2012 Cultural Olympiad such a success, became launch director of the website for digital arts last year – and has clearly been out spending some of the £16m now in its kitty, following its summer relaunch.
“I am not going to pretend we are perfect,” she says when I mention some of the criticism levelled at the site, which was created by Arts Council England in 2012 and aims to find the digital Leonardos, the online artists of the future... Keep reading on The Guardian