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Simon Grand, Christoph Weckerle, “The Palaver on Scaling Enterprises” (2017)

The 21st century is characterised by our almost limitless ability to imagine things on different scales. Our imagination on the subject of “size” has driven technical progress and has also inspired art. The proceedings of the symposium on “Too Big To Scale” (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2017), held at Zurich University of the Arts in 2015, include Simon Grand and Christoph…

March 10, 2017

Analysis Creative Economies Reports Cultural-Policies

Creative Industries Report 2016

“From the Creative Industries to the Creative Economies – Creative Economy Report Switzerland 2016”: This report provides new approaches to the creative industries in Switzerland along defined sub-markets. It also focuses on key national and global issues such as value creation, forms of collaboration, creative processes, as well as actors’ practices and processes. 4th Creative Industries Report (2016)

May 1, 2016

Art & Design Careers Criticism & Theory Digitalisation Entrepreneurial Strategies

Frédéric Martel, “The cultural critic is dead! Long live Smart Curation!” (2016)

Does the future of cultural criticism lie in the hands of “machines”? Is this future generated by the recommendation algorithms of Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, etc.? No, what is required is the combination of algorithms with human judgment. This line of thought was discussed in a research initiative titled “Smart Curation” based at Zurich University of the Arts. Frédéric Martel, «Le…

February 25, 2016

Digitalisation

Frédéric Martel, “Smart Curation and the role of algorithms in cultural reception” (2015)

If one looks at the cultural public in digitalization, a paradoxical picture emerges: The cultural public explodes and implodes, platforms and algorithms are instances of self-determination and heteronomy, while human behaviour reacts to the codes of nature, culture, society and the machine. All of these codes are involved when culture as the public negotiation of values has to find new forms in digitalization. From…

September 2, 2015

Criticism & Theory

Frédéric Martel, “Die Disruption der Kritik” (2015)

Frédéric Martel considers “Smart Curation” using the example of Gawker, a controversial but very successful online media company he visited in the USA. Frédéric Martel, "Die Disruption der Kritik" (2015)

August 15, 2015

Analysis Creative Economies Reports Cultural-Policies

Creative Industries Report 2010

When the first Cultural Industries Report for Switzerland was published in 2003, a new and remarkable awareness was created: For Switzerland’s cultural diversity, the state-funded sector was as important as the commercial sector. In order to better understand the role of the city of Zurich within Switzerland’s cultural diversity, three consecutive Creative Industries Reports (2005, 2008, 2010) were published with…

October 1, 2010

Creative Economies Reports

Creative Industries Report 2008

When the first Cultural Industries Report for Switzerland was published in 2003, a new and remarkable awareness was created: For Switzerland’s cultural diversity, the state-funded sector was as important as the commercial sector. In order to better understand the role of the city of Zurich within Switzerland’s cultural diversity, three consecutive Creative Industries Reports (2005, 2008, 2010) were published with…

May 10, 2008

Creative Economies Reports

Creative Industries Report 2005

When the first Cultural Industries Report for Switzerland was published in 2003, a new and remarkable awareness was created: For Switzerland’s cultural diversity, the state-funded sector was as important as the commercial sector. In order to better understand the role of the city of Zurich within Switzerland’s cultural diversity, three consecutive Creative Industries Reports (2005, 2008, 2010) were published with…

January 1, 2005

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Frédéric Martel, “Cultural Policies: Mapping a field in reinvention” (2020)

Creative Industries Zurich 2021

Creative radar: Mapping the UK’s creative industries (PEC, 2020)

Simon Grand, Christoph Weckerle, “The Palaver on Scaling Enterprises” (2017)

Creative Industries Report 2016

Frédéric Martel, “The cultural critic is dead! Long live Smart Curation!” (2016)

Frédéric Martel, “Smart Curation and the role of algorithms in cultural reception” (2015)

Frédéric Martel, “Die Disruption der Kritik” (2015)

Creative Industries Report 2010

Creative Industries Report 2008

Creative Industries Report 2005

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