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About
Alice Mrongovius: Artist, Innovator, Communicator.
Find me here:
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@AliceMrongovius
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+Alice MrongoviusPassionate about creative innovation, open and dynamic business structures, quality social media editorial and actively engaging communities.
Trained as a Fine Artist at the VCA in Melbourne, Australia, as well as studies in Accounting and Multimedia (Media Studies), my background is working with non-profit Arts organisations and in my own art publishing business. Since arriving in Berlin in 2010 I have worked in technology start-ups; managing online communities, communication and marketing.
Tag Archives: thinking outside the box
Hacks for creative habits or how to solve an existentialist crisis
Artists and creative sorts have a unique set of skills that they need to develop for a successful practice. Not only do we need to realise novel and innovative concepts, but also intensely manage time and resources. Unfortunately just the … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, Artist, creativity, habits, Innovation, thinking outside the box
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Lean Startup for artists: rethinking funding opportunities in the arts
I am fascinated by the intersection of disruptive and creative innovation. The potential of impossible things, link and draw interesting similarities between disruptive innovation and artistic production. Whether disrupting markets, technology, social or cultural contexts, both seek to bring into … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, arts funding, conversation, Innovation, Lean Startup, thinking outside the box
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Innovation and impossible things
I recently re-named my blog – ‘Six impossible things before breakfast”. This is from a quote in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, where Alice exasperatedly states that “one can’t believe impossible things”, to which the Queen replies “I dare … Continue reading
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Tagged haptic, Innovation, Lewis Carroll, Quantum Physics, Scott Belsky, start-up, thinking outside the box
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What being an Artist has taught me
I am an Artist. Like most Artists, I do a whole bunch of different things in my daily life other than directly ‘making’ art. The basis for most of this other activity is economic,some Artists resent this, but I enjoy being engaged in organisations and having a source of income separate from my art.
However, no matter my ‘professional’ title I still describe myself as an Artist …who works as [insert job title]. The growth of creative industries has made some changes to how the title of Artist is perceived but entrenched negative stereotypes persist. You know the ones; that