Keeping Things Fresh

This piece was originally written for and published on Native, the journal of the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. It is part of the Making Digital Work: Business Models guide, available to download here.  We increasingly need to justify what we do, which in turn is leading to a sector-wide identity crisis. We none of […]

Budgeting for Innovation

This piece was originally written for and published on Native, the journal of the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. Budgeting is an art. People who are good at it approach the empty spreadsheet like a canvas, using formulae to move numbers around until they’ve painted a glorious picture of their future project. What happens […]

Molleson on Wind Pipes

This piece was commissioned by PRS for Music Foundation and first published on their website here. It was written by journalist Kate Molleson. Sarah Kenchington builds outlandish instruments at her home in the hills just north of Glasgow. Her latest, Wind Pipes for Edinburgh commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival, is a wheezy pipe organ […]

People power in the arts

This piece was originally written for and published in Guardian Culture Professionals in September 2013. It’s the second in a trio of articles written by the Sync team, you can read the first and last in the series here and here. There’s a trap we keep falling into as we attempt to embed digital creativity in […]

Jones on Wind Pipes

An extract from a piece by Jonathan Jones in the Guardian titled Edinburgh Art Festival: the best of this year’s public commissions. Published 7 August 2013. Warmed by my beer, I descend into Chalmer’s Close, one of the old alleyways that branch like dark veins off the tourist artery of the High Street, to find a medieval chapel built […]