About The CultureCode Initiative about

The CultureCode Initiative is creating an opportunity for North East cultural and digital communities to work closely together, increasing their understanding of each other’s work and the mutual benefits of collaboration. These events are connecting leading North East cultural organisations and practitioners with software developers and creative technologists to see what amazing things happen.

Mark Dobson explains more: 

The Culture Hack is now underway - follow the action on Twitter or if you're a developer, head over here to get the data.

We have now completed the first stages of the CultureCode Initiative, the CultureCode Encounter and the CultureCode Boutique. If you would like to see the presentations, listen to interviews or see some of the tweets captured across these 3 events then go to the Media section of this website 

What's the next stage? 

The next stages for the CultureCode Intitiative are the CultureCode Salon on the 15th March and the CultureCode Hack on the 24th and 25th March

Data

''From opening times to artistic programme or sales, our sector holds an abundance of valuable data, which, if made more widely available could be reused in many so many different, creative and useful ways. The CultureCode initiative is helping artists and arts organisations in the North East better understand the value of the data they hold, about their work and their audiences, and how this can be used to maximise their public value. Allowing developers and creative technologists access to open data could lead to all sorts of new ways for the cultural sector to engage with their audiences or develop new business models.'' 

Lara Robinson, Arts Council North East 

What should I be doing now? 

As a cultural professional you should now be spending some time thinking about what data your organisation collects and where this data might be held. The likelihood is you have access to data if you work for an organisation and the CultureCode data ambassadors are here to help you find and extract that data so you can play a big role in the development of innovative prototypes at the CultureCode Hack. The data ambassadors will be calling everyone who signs up for the hack but if you are keen to kick start those conversations then please feel free to drop us a line here at CultureCode HQ. If you would like to better understand data then download the data info doc.

Get in touch with a data ambassador now!

If you are an artist, organisation or freelancer without access to data, don't worry you can still be involved with the CultureCode Initiative. What matters is that you are interested in digital technology and what it might be able to do for you. From engaging audiences with a new app to creating digital art, the opportunities are limitless. We encourage you to explore any ideas with the data ambassadors. They will chat to you about your digital aspirations and the challenges you face. At the Salon and the Hack, creative technologists will work with you on developing these ideas.

The next stage is to attend the CultureCode Salon where you will meet the creative technologists involved in this process. This will take place at the Town Wall Pub on the 15^th March. 

Book your place at the CultureCode Salon 

Following the CultureCode Salon, we will be hosting the much anticipated CultureCode Hack at the Tyneside Cinema on the 24^th – 25^th March. 

Book your place at the CultureCode Hack 

We look forward to joining you for the rest of the CultureCode journey.