RLUK Digital Shift Forum - Damian Murphy, University of York

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RLUK Digital Shift Forum - Damian Murphy, University of York

RLUK’s Digital Shift Forum brings together colleagues to discuss the future of the digital shift in collections, services, and audiences.

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Date and time

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 06:00 - 07:00 PST

Location

Online

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'Digital Creativity and Future Storytelling'

Damian Murphy, Professor in Sound and Music Computing at AudioLab, University of York

The increasingly ubiquitous nature of digital technology and data in our society has delivered a transformation in both our understanding and our practice of creativity - and the role that this digital technology holds - in its everyday realisation. We are moving to a point where digital technology integrates with and underpins many aspects of our lives and is no longer a novelty in and of itself.

Digital Creativity therefore becomes something that provides a foundation to both support and enhance many forms of research and practice, as well as existing as an area of research in its own right, with no perceived barrier between the two.

This talk will consider digital creativity in the context of future storytelling and cases studies that have emerged from the work of the XR Stories creative clusters R&D partnership project. From this we will consider what changes in our research culture might be demanded to ensure the wider benefit from the opportunities that digital creativity brings. How might we build a wider audience of digitally creative natives who are better able to embrace such opportunities? The impact across many aspects of our society, including the creative and cultural sectors, industry and community, has the potential to be significant.

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Damian Murphy is Professor in Sound and Music Computing at AudioLab in the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York, and the University Research Theme Champion for Creativity.

His research focuses on the development and creative application of immersive audio and virtual acoustic modelling, he is an active sound artist, and the Director of the £15m XR Stories Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Creative Industries R&D Partnership exploring interactive and immersive storytelling for the UK’s creative screen industries.

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This event will be held via Zoom. Attendees will be sent joining details the day before the event, and should check their junk folders if no email is received.

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