After a conversation between Andrea Halwa, Executive Director at The London Arts Council,  Carol Kehoe, Partnerships Manager at Museum London, and Adam Caplan of web.isod.es the idea for an Un-Conference on Social Media for the Arts was born.

Titus Ferguson and Bill Deys from TJ & F Consulting, organizers of the very succesful PodCamp London, are on board as the event’s key organizers.

SMArts London will be a free “unconference” that will feature a full-day of sessions and discussions that seeks to connect artists (performing arts (theatre, dance, performance), visual (fine arts, photography, painting, etc.), multimedia (film & video, computer) and academic/curatorial artistic communities), art administrators and art dealers with the social media practitioners and enthusiasts who can help them understand the value, potential and benefits of new media.

SMarts London sessions will be based on three different session types. First we will be filling spots by booking speakers like a traditional conference. Second, we plan to release a group of topics we would like to have, suggestions are always welcome, and ask for speakers to fill those sessions. Finally we want to have an open call so ANYONE who wants to speak on any topic, provided they stay with in the boundaries or Social Media applied to the arts.

The first two types will be announced as we have details, the open call sessions can be added right now over on the user editable Wiki found over at http://smartslondon.pbworks.com/.

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