Speaker Interviews

Alan Yentob
 Creative Director, BBC
Alan Yentob
Creative Director, BBC
Alan Yentob is the Creative Director of the BBC and Editor and Presenter of the Imagine programme. A celebrated and award-winning programme maker, Alan quickly came to personify the creative spirit of the BBC. He joined as a general trainee in 1968, taking his first job in the World Service.
There is both a big opportunity and a challenge here...

2 mins 5 seconds
1 video
Anthony Rose
 CTO, Project Canvas, BBC
Anthony Rose
CTO, Project Canvas, BBC
An introduction to Project Canvas - the open source next generation IPTV platform

2 mins 46 seconds
4 videos
The RT Hon Jeremy Hunt
 Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport,

The RT Hon Jeremy Hunt
Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport,
In May 2010 Jeremy was appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport in the newly formed Coalition Government. This was a brief Jeremy shadowed from July 2007. He was one of only three of the 2005 Conservative intake to sit on the Shadow Cabinet. As well as the vital Olympics brief, Jeremy sees the role as having a major relevance to the quality of life agenda. As a former publisher, he understands the challenges faced by the UK’s arts creative industries and knows first hand how vital they are for the UK’s economy.
There are huge opportunities for how we look at participation within the Arts by looking at the possibilities of the digital revolution.

54 seconds
2 videos
Peter Bazalgette
 Deputy Chairman, English National Opera
Peter Bazalgette
Deputy Chairman, English National Opera
The Festival Chair outlines the main themes of the event

1 min 31 seconds
3 videos
Dick Halfpenny
Dick Halfpenny
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Its not so much a technology shift, its an intellectual shift...

1 min 50 seconds
1 video
Chris Wild
 Retronaut, How to be a Retronaut
Chris Wild
Retronaut, How to be a Retronaut
Chris Wild believes that by changing the way we think of time, we can open up its creative possibilities. He calls himself a "retronaut", which he defines as "someone who goes back in time using just perception". To this end, he has built a virtual time-machine. It's called the Retroscope, a piece of software that uses millions of historic images, drawings, engravings and films, overlaid on maps or organized into 3D models, to create a map of England (and, in due course, the world) so that we can look at any place, and scroll back in time, seeing that place change over time. The Retroscope is due to launch later this year. Photos come from museums and other collections, but individuals will also be able to contribute their own.
The Retroscope

48 seconds
3 videos
Dame Liz Forgan
 Chair, Arts Council England
Dame Liz Forgan
Chair, Arts Council England
Liz Forgan was appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to broadcasting and heritage in 2006. Liz joined the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund as Chair in April 2001 and stood down at the end of her term in October 2008. Following an early career in newspaper journalism, she moved to television with the start of Channel 4 where she became Director of Programmes. She joined the BBC as Managing Director of BBC Radio from 1993 to 1996. She is a Trustee of the British Museum, a patron of the St Giles Trust, a Vice-Patron and former Chair of the Churches Conservation Trust and also former Trustee of the Phoenix Trust. She is the Chair of the Scott Trust (the non-profit organisation which owns the Guardian Media Group).
The partnership between arts and digital professionals

52 seconds
3 videos
Mike Stubbs
 Director/CEO, FACT
Mike Stubbs
Director/CEO, FACT
Mike Stubbs has been Director of FACT since May 2007. Previously he was Head of Exhibitions at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI), Senior Research Resident at Dundee University’s School of Television Imaging and was the Founding Director at Hull Time Based Arts (HTBA). During his career, Mike has commissioned over 250 interactive, site-specific, performative, sonic and moving image-based artworks. Originally educated at the Royal College of Art and Cardiff College of Art, Mike is a film-maker and artist in his own right. His own internationally commissioned artwork encompasses broadcast films, video art, large-scale public projections and new media installation. Recent initiatives include championing the new cross regional AND (Abandon Normal Devices) Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture, commissioning KMA as part of Shanghai Expo 2010 and launching www.fact.tv, an online arts channel.
We all would love to find new ways of producing things and getting paid for it...

1 min 10 seconds
4 videos
Adam Gee
 Commissioning Editor - Cross Platform (Factual), Channel 4
Adam Gee
Commissioning Editor - Cross Platform (Factual), Channel 4
We are in a world of possibility...

39 seconds
3 videos
Andrew Nairn
Andrew Nairn
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What is the purpose of The Media Festival Arts?

27 seconds
6 videos
Max Leonard
 R & D , BBC
Max Leonard
R & D , BBC
Max Leonard discusses what the BBC R&D; department get up to...

46 seconds
2 videos
Sally Potter
 Founder, Adventure Pictures
Sally Potter
Founder, Adventure Pictures
Sally Potter directed her first feature, THE GOLD DIGGERS, starring Julie Christie,in 1983. After THE LONDON STORY (1986), and several documentaries, she wrote and directed the Oscar-nominated ORLANDO, starring Tilda Swinton. This was followed by THE TANGO LESSON (1996) and THE MAN WHO CRIED (2000), starring Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett and John Turturro. In 2004 Potter made YES, starring Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, and Sam Neill. Potter then directed CARMEN for English National Opera in Autumn 2007. Potter’s latest film, RAGE (2009), starring Judi Dench, Jude Law and Steve Buscemi was the first ever film to premiere on mobile phones and was nominated for a Webby in 2010. Potter has had full career retrospectives of her film and video work at the BFI Southbank, London, and Filmoteca, Madrid, in 2009, and MoMA, New York, in 2010. Potter has a blog and message board at www.sallypotter.com.
The digital revolution has opened content to huge cross over audiences...

57 seconds
3 videos
David Sabel
 Head of Digital, National Theatre
David Sabel
Head of Digital, National Theatre
David Sabel is Head of Digital Media at the National Theatre and the Producer of NT Live. He trained as an actor in Chicago and the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris. After having worked as a chef for three years, he received an MBA from Cambridge University. His dissertation, looking at digital opportunities in the arts, brought him to the National Theatre whereupon he developed the pilot season of NT Live and the National’s first documentary commission, Making War Horse
What are the main discussion points from the festival?

54 seconds
3 videos
Gareth Evans
 Co Director, Art Events
Gareth Evans
Co Director, Art Events
Collaboration is the bottom line...

49 seconds
4 videos
Marcus Davey
 Chief Executive, The Roundhouse
Marcus Davey
Chief Executive, The Roundhouse
Marcus Davey, the Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the Roundhouse studied at Dartington College of Arts and soon after completing his degree he became the Administrator of Dartington International Summer School and then in addition the Director of Arts for Dartington Hall Trust and Director of concerts programming for Exeter University. In 1995 he was appointed the Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, where he created a new contemporary dance festival, a wide ranging creative education programme, an inter-festival orchestral series and commissioned over 60 works in music, dance and the visual arts. He was appointed Chief Executive of The Roundhouse Trust in 1999, where he oversore and managed the £30m re-development of the Roundhouse into a world class performance space and a state of the art creative centre (the Roundhouse Studios) for large numbers of young people to take part in new media and creative arts projects.
How will artists be commisioned to engage with the online space

1 min 4 seconds
3 videos
Mark Thompson
 Director General, BBC
Mark Thompson
Director General, BBC
Mark Thompson was appointed Director-General of the BBC on 21 May 2004 and took up his appointment four weeks later (22 June 2004). He had been Chief Executive, Channel 4 (March 2002 to June 2004) and previously worked at the BBC for more than 20 years, becoming Director of Television in April 2000. As Director-General, Mark is responsible for the BBC's services across television, radio and online and a global workforce of 25,000 people that provides over 400,000 hours of content each year
Moving beyond documentary and news programming relating the The Arts

1 min 30 seconds
5 videos
Kip Meek
 Chair, Project Canvas
Kip Meek
Chair, Project Canvas
What is Project Canvas?

39 seconds
7 videos
Honor Harger
 Director, Lighthouse
Honor Harger
Director, Lighthouse
Honor Harger is New Zealand born curator with a particular interest in art which uses new technologies and broadcasting. She is currently director of Lighthouse in Brighton.
Canvas is an open platform that can be used as a vehicle to enable Arts organisations, and artists to express themselves in any way that they want...

1 min 26 seconds
3 videos