Workshop Brief

Create new markets, new artistic feedback and direction, and new ways of expressing yourself and sharing your work with others. Take self-promotion and creative development to a new level through social media.

Participants will leave the workshop:

• having learned to create their own media platform
• having created personal and participatory resources and networks
• having worked through a range of 2.0 technologies
• having learned methods for ongoing career development and promotion
• having created tools for self- and peer-evaluation
• having produced a pilot project using 2.0 tools
• having confidence in their understanding of new media and its uses
• having established new and adaptive creative channels

Ideal Workshop Candidate

Mature Creative Professional (writer, photographer, fine artist, commercial artist, designer, illustrators etc.) Anyone with a portfolio they want to share, and who would be comfortable discussing works in progress. The ideal participant would be someone who has a few years of experience, but the beginner or career-changer could benefit as well - they would get the most from the collaborative/mentor discussions.

This workshop would be of limited benefit to someone currently involved in web design or the professional graphic designer - his or her technical and self-promotion skills are already fairly advanced.