Jon Pratty

Associate Director @Msl Projects Hastings

Hastings, GB

I continue to be involved in developing projects and programming at MSL. After leaving Arts Council England and Ideas Test in 2017 and working with MSL Director, Margaret Sheehy, I was responsible for curating and delivering an innovative and successful range of arts/digital/community projects from 2018 to 2022:*Hastings Creative Summer (and Creative Spring) were digital technology school holiday learning programmes aimed at young people.*This Is For Everyone - a series of digital arts commissions on the streets of the Trinity Triangle in Hastings*Is This For Everyone- a one day conference that explored community attitudes to connective digital networks - and 5G hostility - at town-scale.*The Museum on the Street - an unsuccessful plan to hijack the Hastings town wifi for community cultural good.*\'A Derelict Chorale\'- commissioned singer Chris Thorpe-Tracey to compose a suite of songs about the revolutionary past of the town.*The Sea Beneath - a summer public arts programme involving scientists, geologists, artists, and dowsers working together to predict where the sea will eventually rise up under the streets of Hastings.

University of Sussex

Master of Arts - MA, Creative and Cultural Industries

University of Plymouth

BA, Fine Art

University of Sussex

Master of Arts - MA, Cultural and Creative Industries