Cultural Digital #010

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Woah! We're into double figures already. And there was me thinking that I wouldn't come across enough interesting stuff to put these out weekly. Shows what I know.

Antonio Roberts performs and presents glitch art. The above is from Flickr and made available under a CC BY-SA 2.0 Licence. He's running a Copyleft Workshop in Birmingham on 26 Nov. 

Links

Es Devlin and Luke Halls talk about the future of theatre design. How is technology changing the way that we stage and design a production? What new possibilities might digital technology open up for theatre designers in the future?

Also, here's an interview with the co-founder of Hammerstep talking about the intersection between dance and technology. Which ties in nicely with Hacking Rambert - notes, sketches, bookmarks and ideas from Leila Johnston, the first digital artist-in-residence at Rambert.

Bored of the whole livestreaming vs live performance thing yet? Don't run away yet! This write-up of the Live vs Screen Debate at the Australia Council’s Arts Learning Forum is worth a read, and makes the point that anyone still flogging that particular dead horse should "let go of the notion that there need be a victor in a debate between live and screen" and use a bit more imagination.

Meanwhile, the first off-Broadway livestream will happen 10 Dec (Broadway union rules have prevented this sort of thing so far), there'll be a computer-generated musical in London next year, and Pixar's boss reckons VR will probably be better for experiences than storytelling.

Speaking of, Dulwich Picture Gallery have done a VR thing and they took it to the kids at King's College Hospital. If you've got Google Cardboard and an Android phone you can experience the tour too.

There are mentions of VR at the British Museum, telepresence at the American Museum of National History, and beacons at the Met Museum in The Week's article on the high-tech museums of the future. 

Make copyright-free images available on your website and you might just see them used on pub signs. Whether you see this as a good or bad thing could probably form the basis of a personality test.

The Openlab Workshop people found more than 40 'labs' in the cultural sector. A proper list will apparently be forthcoming.

The (draft) programme for Museums and the Web 2016 has tonnes of interesting stuff. Do any readers in Los Angeles want to fly me out to do some work with them around that time? No? Oh well.

Remember that article about 'aesthletes' from a few weeks back? Posting art on the internet 101 is kinda like the TL;DR of that in cartoon form. 

The Barbican have announced that they're building a new website and will be documenting it publicly, as is the way of these things nowadays. Although there's no way to sign up to receive updates.

An interview with Mar Dixon, the Artist-in-Residence at Q21 in her studio to talk about Viennese people’s difficulties with sharing ideas and building communities.

Rhizome's Old Web Today allows users to browse public web archives in a recreation of a legacy browser of their choice.

Michael CraigMartin: Lightbulb. Wait for a pleasing combination of colours. Save it. Share it. Pat yourself on the back.

Panther Modern is a file-based exhibition space, encouraging artists to create site-specific installations for the internet.

Events

14-17 April, Amsterdam, IETM - Live arts in Digital times

Hmm, that was another long one. Presumably there'll be fewer things on note over the festive period. Here's hoping, anyway.

Thanks as ever for reading.

Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt / LinkedIn

I work with cultural organisations on projects that involve digital strategy, content and analytics. Visit One Further or hit reply if you'd ever like to have a chat about that.