Cultural Digital #018 - ultra-technology
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This week there's old technology and ultra-technology. Plus fashion, Shakespeare, dead mice, the Dark Web, and colouring books.
You can't say it's not varied.
teamLab are doing the first exhibition at PACE Art + Technology in Menlo Park. California. Participants (not visitors, I note) are invited to "immerse themselves in the multi-room environments spanning 20,000 ft² and showcasing 20 digital works". teamLab is "an interdisciplinary group of ultra-technologists". Ooh.
A Very Different Kind of Immersive Art Installation is the NYT's take on the exhibition.
If you work at an arts organisation and have experienced the joys of an online ticketing project then please fill out Nadine Ishani's quick online ticketing survey.
What motivates a visit to MoMA’s website? Good stuff from their Director of Digital Content & Strategy. Also mentions previous investigations along the same lines from Tate, Culture24 and Artsy.
The Museum of English Rural Life accidentally caught a mouse in a Victorian mouse trap and the story went viral.
This is really interesting about how and why Burberry are aligning their runway and retail calendars. To give you an idea:
"most importantly, Burberry’s new strategy addresses a long-standing problem with the traditional fashion calendar, a legacy of a pre-Internet era in which fashion shows were conceived as closed industry events for press and wholesale buyers to preview collections months before clothing was available for purchase in stores."
What kind of literature lives on the Dark Web? An interview with the people behind a literary journal called The Torist. I see what they did there.
The BBC and British Council have put out an open call for digital ideas for Shakespeare Lives.
Outpost is "A new shared workspace from the creators of XOXO, Portland’s experimental festival celebrating independent art and technology".
The Malware Museum (it's safe to click, honest) is "a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers". Funny to think that the people writing these things took the time to create graphics for them.
On a related note, how digital art curators save vintage data and hardware.
The Economist on how artists working with technology struggle to stay current. This one references the Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) exhibition currently at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.
Last week, museums and libraries took part in #ColorOurCollections. Which… I dunno. I guess it's harmless.
A new website for Artangel.
So that's that for another week. Have I asked you to recommend this forward this email to your potentially interested friends/family/colleagues/pets yet? No? Ah, well please do. I like it when people sign up.
Cheers
Chris Unitt
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I work with cultural organisations on projects that involve digital strategy, content and (especially) analytics. Visit One Further to find out more. Or hit the reply button and say hello.