High Art, Low Budget: Making Big Ideas with Tiny Tech
Finbarre Snarey
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Regular (more than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Professional speaker / journalist and researcher
- Fee:
- Paid: From £75, plus agreed travel expenses where applicable. Online talks by arrangement.
- Category:
- Business
- Updated:
- 12th August 2026
- Tagged:
- Arts Organizations | Digital Strategy | Technology
Ambitious cultural projects do not necessarily need ambitious technology budgets.
Creative technologist and arts journalist Finbarre Snarey explores how independent artists, community organisations and small cultural projects can use inexpensive and often overlooked digital tools to build surprisingly capable systems.
Drawing on real projects, the talk looks at lightweight technologies alongside practical approaches to websites, digital publishing, archives, booking systems, community platforms and other online infrastructure.
Rather than recommending expensive platforms or fashionable technology for its own sake, the emphasis is on finding the smallest, simplest tool capable of doing the job.
High Art, Low Budget is aimed at anyone with an ambitious cultural idea, limited resources and a suspicion that there may be a better answer than another expensive monthly subscription.
Views: 16 | Enquiries: 0About Finbarre Snarey
Finbarre Snarey is an arts and culture journalist, producer and tarot researcher based in Nottinghamshire. He is the founder of the British Tarot Archive and creator of Tarot Interviews, an interview project that uses tarot cards and chance to create unusual conversations with writers, musicians, artists and other cultural figures.
His research explores tarot as cultural history and living heritage, including the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition, the work of artist Pamela Colman Smith, the preservation and circulation of tarot decks, and the changing place of tarot in British culture.
Finbarre has presented his tarot research at Goldsmiths, University of London, and works across journalism, podcasts, archives and festivals.
His talks explore unusual aspects of tarot, cultural history, interviewing and creative technology, combining original research with his experience of building independent arts and cultural projects.
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