interConnect
Collective intelligence project
A project of the Independent Media Arts Alliance 2022 – 2023. For more information, visit the project website.
Role: Project Manager
interConnect aims to bring together artists, arts professionals, and organizations to share knowledge about digital projects and practices. We want to foster the growth of a digital ecosystem created for and by our community, strengthening the sector overall. We will accomplish this through:
- A series of co-learning groups which will explore discussion areas about digital transformation.
- A collective and open knowledge base which will document these discussions and their insights.
Description
interConnect comes from feedback among arts organizations that suggests that the fundamental goals of recent digital innovation programs, such as the Digital Strategy Fund, have yet to be fully met. While much important knowledge is being generated, the dissemination and concrete application of their results remain incomplete and unevenly distributed. Within the fields of visual arts, media arts, digital arts and contemporary craft, the majority of organizations and artists have yet to benefit substantially from this work. A relatively limited number of organizations are making great strides towards digital transformation and enhancing their effectiveness and sustainability in their respective communities. If these successes could be more widely shared, these transformative impacts would be amplified across the Canadian arts sector.