Future of Arts, Culture & Technology 2027
In Conversation: Ash Mann and Dr Indigo Holcombe-James
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| Full | $10 |
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| Member | $8 |
| Companion Card | FREE |
| Blak Member | FREE |
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Digital isn’t new to our sector. Cultural organisations have been building websites, digitising collections and selling tickets online for decades, and the pandemic moved nearly everyone further online, ready or not. The recent boom in generative AI has created the impression that digital skills, tools, expertise and strategy are more central than ever. So why can digital work still feel so tricky?
Join strategist and adviser Ash Mann and our head of research Dr Indigo Holcombe-James as they take up this question, in a conversation facilitated by Matt Millikan. Ash draws on decades of practical experience to explore what helps digital work take hold inside organisations: who understands it, who backs it and what it takes to make change stick. Indigo shares insights from her new book, Digital Inequality in Cultural Institutions. Based on years of research with institutions worldwide, it shows why the capacity to do digital work is so unevenly shared.
Together, Ash and Indigo look at what could make digital work easier, both within organisations and across the sector as a whole.
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Ash Mann
Ash Mann is an adviser, strategist and facilitator. For two decades, he has helped cultural organisations sharpen their digital thinking and activity. In that time, he has worked on hundreds of projects, from training and consultancy to complex web builds, design initiatives, new product development, and research and development. In 2017, Ash started Digital Works, a program of content and events about all things digital in the cultural sector. As part of this, he hosts the Digital Works Podcast and programs the Digital Works Conference.
Dr Indigo Holcombe-James
Dr Indigo Holcombe-James is Head of Research at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Indigo holds a PhD in Media and Communication, and prior to joining the museum, was a Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society where her research focused on the digital transformation of cultural and creative institutions.
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