Arts & Audiences - Digital Audience Experience 2014

DAEx Arts & Audience 2014 took place in Reykjavik, Iceland on 20th & 21st October.

What does that mean?

You haven't the time to attend in person but there's a couple of cracking keynotes you can console yourself with coz there is a live stream. if you are lucky the stream will not crash, the audio and picture might be half decent, you can save yourself the money on the flight, the cost of a pricey hotel room. 
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Twitter engagement stats from Arts and Audiences' October 2014 event in Reykjavik.

Being a passive viewer?

Watching a live stream offering can be a lonely experience. Attending is as much about who else is attending. It's about networking opportunities. For live arts, cultural event and theatre performances it's about being with people participating. The smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd.

Can the digital experience provide a credible alternative experience? That is what Arts and Audience's DAEx asks.
Arts and Audiences are running a parallel digital conference 'in the cloud' - Join the Digital Audience Experience (DAEx) attend Arts and Audiences from where ever you are. The DAEx live team will be your eyes and ears 'on the ground'. Watch the main hall live stream with a web TV studio taking over in the breaks, chat on the Live Wall, attend the Round Table discussion on Day 2 and take part in the dedicated Google HangOuts with guest speakers and Q&A exclusively for the DAEx attendees. This digital audience experiment asks for your input. Is it possible to create a credible event experience 'in the cloud'. The Arts and Audience team invite you to take part in this digital audience enquiry. Can it be as good 'in the cloud' and it is 'on the ground'?
You do not need to plan your travel or book accommodation we do advise you prepare in the following way.
  1. Book your DAEx ticket. The information you provide will help us communicate leading up to the Arts and Audiences conference, during the event and after when we draw our conclusions.

  2. Establish your Bloggers Lounge, your viewing platform. At your desk, from your office or book a meeting room.

  3. Plan your activities by familiarising your self and group if you are hosting a Bloggers Lounge with the 'In the Cloud' session timetable.

  4. Download the following apps and favourite the urls.

Apps

Bizzabo
Vyclone
Group.me
QR code reader
Google Hangout

Links to Bookmark

Spot.im
Audiences Europe Network
Arts & Audiences Google Page

What constitutes a Digital Audience Experience?
1. The livestream
2. The continuity studio
3. The 'on the ground' Bloggers Lounge
4. The 'in the cloud' breakouts, discussions and workshops.
5. The Live Wall

Over to you...

The Arts and Audiences DAEx is being supported by Audiences Europe Network. it's a network created by arts and inter-cultural practitioners interested in engaging new and existing audiences 'on the ground' across Europe and share best practice with their contemporaries and peers.

I have been working with AEN partner organisation supporting their adoption of social technologies. I have discovered that where doctors make the worst patients and web designer never update their own websites, audience developer are not the best audience.

We must understand how to be 'audience' create content, participate in forums, comment on blogs, tweet our trials and tribulation. The Arts and Audiences conference is a showcase of those doing it well and enquiry about how we can do it better back home.

Livestream
Live Wall
Continuity Studio
Digital Break-out
Bloggers Lounge

Bizzabo - The app for networking at Arts and Audience 'in the crowd' and 'on the ground'. Scan, download and find us. Arts & Audiences on Bizzabo.

    Any Questions?