Cultural Digital #021 - so refreshing
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Hello
No pretty image this week because time is tight. The links more than make up for it though.
Links
You remember last week I said that Art UK was an interesting case study in digital transformation? Well Alex Morrison has written an excellent piece about it - Art UK: An unexpected case study in innovation strategy - which is all sorts of interesting.
New website for the The Metropolitan Museum of Art actually, as explained here, it's a 'refresh' not a 'redesign'.
From Econsultancy: Improving UX by simplifying web design: English National Opera with some quotes from yours truly about design changes based on user testing.
The V&A talks Tumblr. Another piece about their experiments with different platforms. This one contains the line "Put on your seatbelts boys and girls, because this is going to get weird" and does not disappoint.
Uncatalogued is a podcast that "explores museums, galleries, libraries, theatres and all sorts of other cultural organisations in a personal and unexpected way".
Here's the video and transcript of the Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast with Michael Peter Edson from the Innovation Studio at Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
The BBC have announced their first VR documentary. It's currently named Easter Rising: Voice Of A Rebel, and is part of the BBC’s efforts to mark the 100th anniversary of the historic insurrection in Ireland over Easter Weekend in 1916.
People United's Kindness Calendar showcases "poignant stories of kindness".
Thanks to la Musée Cognacq-Jay you can create your own toile de Jouy.
Mia Ridge rounds up news in heritage crowdsourcing.
An interview with Lindsay Howard about "the state of “net art,” how digital art can work in a real-life gallery and her current research on “ex-boyfriends and gambling.”
Events
9 March 2016, London Creative Data Club #13
Catch you later.
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.