{"id":43668,"date":"2023-10-20T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/acmi-to-open-co-working-space-to-bring-the-startup-and-art-worlds-together-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:30:16","slug":"acmi-to-open-co-working-space-to-bring-the-startup-and-art-worlds-together-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/acmi-to-open-co-working-space-to-bring-the-startup-and-art-worlds-together-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"ACMI to open co-working space to bring the startup and art worlds together – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Australian Centre for the Moving Image has announced plans to open a large co-working space for 60 creative professionals and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

Located in Melbourne, ACMI X will be one of the first co-working spaces to be provided by a major cultural institution in Australia, CEO Katrina Sedgwick says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to put cultural entrepreneurship right next to art-making and see what comes out of those conversations,\u201d Sedgwick tells StartupSmart<\/i>.<\/p>\n

ACMI X is expected to house tenants from early April 2016.<\/p>\n

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It has been designed to promote collaboration, innovation, creativity and sharing of ideas, Sedgwick says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis space is about enabling that in a really unusual way through the prism of a museum like ACMI,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Growing the cultural economy<\/b><\/p>\n

Victorian minister for creative industries Martin Foley says ACMI X will provide an excellent opportunity for Victoria\u2019s cultural economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s this sort of creative approach and new way of working that will enable us to innovate and grow Victoria\u2019s $23 billion creative and cultural economy into the future,\u201d Foley says in a statement.<\/p>\n

Sedgwick says ACMI X is a 2000 square metre co-working space designed to foster organic growth of its creative community through inventive common spaces, bleacher seating, meeting rooms and brainstorming boards.<\/p>\n

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Co-located with ACMI\u2019s operational offices, ACMI X will house tech and creative professionals who will get access to an ACMI library onsite, events and mentors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re able to provide expertise around exhibitions, commissioning work, copyright, legals, business models, accounting, all of those things that are really important as you\u2019re starting up a business,\u201d Sedgwick says.<\/p>\n

Additionally, residents will have access to artists and experts from various fields like virtual reality, CGI and animation.<\/p>\n

Sedgwick says they are currently recruiting a studio producer to manage tenants and a monthly events program including pitch nights, expert presentations and networking.<\/p>\n

ACMI will also be partnering with REMIX Academy to bring down speakers to Melbourne.<\/p>\n

REMIX hosts quarterly summits in Sydney, London, New York and Dubai.<\/p>\n

Getting into ACMI X<\/b><\/p>\n

Professionals from a wide range of creative industries are invited to apply for desk membership.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d like to have filmmakers talking to game and web developers, we\u2019d like to have visual artists speaking to tech startups,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

There are 60 short and long-term places available by application only with full-time membership priced at $600 per month.<\/p>\n

Copyright Agency<\/a> has sponsored a desk for a startup or local artist commencing in the new financial year.<\/p>\n

In selecting tenants, Sedgwick says are looking for professionals with some relationship to the moving image but will be \u201ccherry-picking\u201d them to ensure there is a genuine mix.<\/p>\n

The debut tenant will be Sandpit, a creative studio with a background in theatre and film that creates apps and interfaces to provide audiences with immersive experiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want people who are creative, nimble, entrepreneurial in their ideas,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Sedgwick says she is excited about ACMI X because it will spark a culture of lateral working where entrepreneurs can bump into each other, solve problems and grow ideas together organically.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s huge opportunity in gaining inspiration from all sorts of disciplines to make a business work, to make a project work, to make an art piece work,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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