Cultural Digital #023 - art as software
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The week we have surveillance, art as software, and so many new websites.
Daniel Temkin creates unconventional programming languages. Light Pattern, above, is a language where code is written with photographs.
Links
Music as Software
"When your music is stored on a server to be streamed of course you can patch it and update it like a developer would do an app, a plug-in or a blogger might edit a post. You can react to feedback from your audience like a new kind of asynchronous performance".
Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum discuss surveillance
"There are Tor relays in the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, at Metro Pictures in New York City, and at the Witte de With in Rotterdam. The museum is a bastion of free speech, helping to protect everyone's right to read and speak freely on the Internet, even if they're not in the museum".
Museums: We Have Never Been (Post)digital Jonas Heide Smith has a go at unpacking the whole 'do museums need digital specialists or should everyone do digital stuff' thing.
DAMs in the Nonprofit Sector: From Striving to Thriving. Some thoughts on digital asset management.
Digital: Idea to Audience. Last week there was a write-up of the event, this week here are the slides.
Dada-Data is "a digital documentary consisting of interactive exercises, six DADA Hacktions, and a web anti-museum".
ArtsDigital101 features some entertaining reads from Mikolai Napieralski. I came across his Museums & The Web Asia 2015 recap (sort of).
So many new websites
Te Papa (with accompanying blog post), Il Teatro Continuo Di Alberto Burri , Casinotheater and Akram Khan Company.
There might not be one of these for a couple of weeks, or there might just be a very slimmed back version. Either way, don't worry.
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 just hit the reply button and say hello.