Samuel Jones
Researcher
Samuel Jones is a researcher at Demos. His research interests include culture and the arts, museums and galleries, creativity and the communication of ideas and knowledge through the cultural sector. In particular, he is interested in cross-cultural communications and the role of culture in international relations. In other work, he has focused on Global English and conversations. Recently, he has undertaken research in both the US and China.
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- Speaking of which... While in the US researching Cultural Diplomacy, I came across some very interesting parallels to the types of conversation that we examine in 'Talk us into it', some of which make use of cultural diplay and performance as a binding force. from : samjones 21st July 2006
- Cultural Diplomacy and Hip Hop Following our trip to the US for the Cultural Diplomacy project, it's interesting to see today's announcement on the State Department website.The musician - and U.S. Hip Hop Ambassador - Toni Blackman, is working with USINFO to explain the values and origins of Hip Hop as an original American artform to an international audience. In her capacity as cultural ambassador, she has also performed at the Field Museum in Chicago, one of the institutions to whom we spoke whenb we were... from : samjones 1st August 2006
- Talk Us Into It This report argues that people are not talking about public affairs less – the problem is that they are engaging less frequently in the means by which their conversation can become public. We need to reconnect these conversations with the public realm and bring back into discussion the interests that at the moment are so fragmented. from : markfuller 14th September 2006
- Positioning the Arts at the Heart of Society Following on from Charlie's comment below, I think that connects pretty strongly with a more general awareness amongst public, politicianas and companies that the arts and culture are more than just add ons and things that make life generally pretty. from : samjones 27th September 2006
- Knowledge and Inspiration: the democratic face of culture Produced in partnership with The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), this report looks at the changing face of our museums, libraries and archives. from : markfuller 25th October 2006
- MoMA and Tate Modern One of the most commonly heard criticisms of Tate Modern is the paucity of its collection in comparison with other major museums. This article in the New York Times makes for interesting reading, arguing that the collection has encouraged more creative curation down at Bankside. There are also some interesting comments about the participatory nature of the Unilever commissions. One of the big points to be made about, say, Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project, or Rachel... from : samjones 2nd November 2006
- Cultural Revolution in the 1990s ‘By the mid-nineties museum directors had figured out along with the rest of us that the worldwide system of production had radically changed with the advent of the PC, then the Internet' from : samjones 7th November 2006
- Louder than Words I've been meaning to blog this for a little while. A couple of weekends ago, I went to a see an exhibition by the Birmingham artist, Barbara Walker. It's currently on show at the Unit 2 Gallery at London Metropolitan University. There are two reasons to go and see this show. First, the close draughtsmanship of the works reveals close observation and familiar care. As a result, they are deeply engaging and clearly very personal images. Scenes on the walk home,... from : samjones 1st December 2006
- Cultural Diplomacy Cultural Diplomacy argues that the huge global reach and potential of Britain’s world class artistic and cultural assets – from Razorlight to the Royal Ballet - should be at the heart of government relationship building abroad. from : markfuller 27th February 2007
- We're all diplomats now... Today, we launched Cultural Diplomacy at the V&A in South Kensington. It argues for the importance of culture in the way that we relate to each other in the world today. As well as providing a medium through which we can relate to one another, culture is emerging a space in which those relations can be conducted. from : samjones 28th February 2007