Conference says artists have a role in digital age

Parents and educators have been urged “not to knock the creativity out” of young people when it comes to positioning for jobs in the digital age.

The artist will play a key role in the new age, the Ireland’s Edge conference which gathered leading academics, executives, senior company directors, civil servants and artists in Dingle was told at the weekend.

There is going to be “a hollowing out of the centre” and the jobs of today are not going to be the jobs of tomorrow, contributors told the conference.