Cultural Digital #020 - transformers
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We meet again. Unless you signed up in the past week (and there's quite a few of you who did), in which case, welcome.
In this email, there's some stuff about the importance of making sure the basics are covered, plus machine learning, virtual reality, and 3D scanning. Mixed messages maybe?
AMYGDALA by fuse* captures, analyses and visualises the emotional content of tweets. Click the link to see a video of it - a description doesn't really do it justice. It's currently installed at CUBO in Bologna as part of their FLUX-US exhibition.
Art UK launched this week, taking over from Your Paintings. This intro from Andy Ellis, Director of Art UK, is rather lovely:
"Tomorrow our small organisation takes two gigantic steps. First, we will start running the successor website to Your Paintings, which is being retired. Secondly, we will say goodbye to the name ‘Public Catalogue Foundation’. The name of the new website and of our organisation will be the same: Art UK. Welcome to Art UK".
If you wanted to know what (one version of) digital transformation looks like, then there you are.
On a related note, Ash Mann has written about Attempting to Trigger Digital Change, covering some of the (perceived?) obstacles to doing more/better digital stuff within existing organisations. I thought this was an interesting comment:
"Simply having someone who can see where the problems are and can propose a sensible solution is a ‘luxury’ that most people do not currently enjoy".
Artists and Machine Intelligence is a Google backed program that "brings together artists and engineers to realise projects using Machine Intelligence".
The Donmar Warehouse have released extracts of Les Liaisons Dangereuses read by the cast as a free audiobook on Audible.com.
This link is for anyone who wants £5,000 to create a virtual reality documentary work to be installed and presented as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Updates from Sarah Madden, Digital Engagement Officer at the South West Museum Development Programme.
Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online. What a world we live in.
The First Decade Project presents objects, documents, interviews and images charting the first ten years of the Crafts Council, our collections and their makers.
Games in the museum: How do you put play on display? A new wave of developers and curators are questioning what it means to tell the story of games.
Testing the Possibilities of Online Education with Museum MOOCs. Mostly looking at MoMA's 'Seeing Through Photographs' on Coursera. Speaking of, check out MoMA Through Time.
Singapore are having a new digital art festival as part of their Smart Nation push. Full disclosure: I'm not sure what a 'Smart Nation push' is.
Events
9 March 2016, Brighton, Digital: from Idea to Audience
See you again next time.
Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt
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.