Learning Opportunity: Digital Transformation for the Creative Industries
Australia Council for the Arts
Digital Transformation for the Creative Industries is an online short course designed specifically for artists and arts and creative workers it is best suited for those with a beginner or intermediate understanding of the digital space as it relates to the creative industries.
Developed and delivered in collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), this six-week course will give you an insight into key digital concepts, modes of digital practice, emergent technologies and also introduce ideas around digital strategy and business model innovation.
As a leading Australian university and a top-ranked university in Australia, UTS is home to industry-connected educators and researchers who are leaders in their creative fields, and passionate about organisational and individual skills development and uplift.
Curated by arts and cultural practitioners, Digital Transformation for the Creative Industries is specifically designed for artists and creative practitioners, arts administrators, managers, and directors working, whether independent, or from organisations large or small who want to begin to understand digital practice and strategy.
You will join a cohort of industry peers and colleagues working in different artforms across Australia to understand, explore and shape your thinking around digital. Key topics include:
- Understanding key digital concepts
- Digital practices for the arts
- Digital transformation strategy
- Digital leadership
- Digital business models
- Demystifying emerging technologies.
This six-week course requires a commitment of up to four hours a week, and is a combination of facilitated sessions, online group learning and self-directed activities that can be directly applied to your existing work and practice.
Cost
Positions in the first three rounds of the Digital Transformation for the Creative Industries course are subsidised as part of the Digital Culture Program.
Tiered subsidies are available to support access for a diversity of participants:
- Independent artists/practitioner – A $600 subsidy is available. Participants will be required to pay $75
- Small to medium arts organisations – $300 subsidy available for representatives from. Participants will be required to pay $375
- Large organisations/institutions – The overall course fee of $675 (ex GST) applies
If your subsidy application is unsuccessful, you can choose to pay the course fee in full. The overall course fee is $675 (ex GST).
Key dates
Applications for subsidised positions in the first three cohorts closed on Tuesday 7 February, 3pm (AEST).
The course will run for six weeks, beginning with an introductory session the week prior to commencement. Five cohorts of participants will be accepted in the March – June 2023 sessions:
- 13 March – 21 April 2023
- 8 May – 16 June 2023
