Cultural Digital #026
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Hello again
Just the one email this week. You can have too much of a good thing, can't you?
Nicholas Felton has put together a book called PhotoViz highlighting "a wave of photographers mixing deep data into their art" per this write-up from Fast Company.
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Music visualisations by Alexander Chen. I think I'd seen the one for Steve Reich's Piano Phase before. I like that one.
FALLING THIRDS is an ambient music HTML5 Audio app by Christopher Alcock. "The chord is determined by your clock (how many second into the month you are, to be precise), so as long as your clocks are accurate to within about 20 seconds, you can open the site on multiple devices and experience the sound environment in surround, which was the original intention of the piece".
Takeshi Nakatsuka - JAPANESE BOY. I found this one oddly compelling. Your mileage my vary.
Stravinsky: Myths & Rituals is "an interactive web documentary about the life and journeys of Igor Stravinsky" from the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Chorus online by Matthew Herbert "asks visitors to sing a single note within a professional recording booth following a set of instructions. The visitors’ voices are then automatically added to a chorus of voices, including performers and staff from the Royal Opera House, forming an ever-expanding sound installation that plays in the exhibition space and at the Royal Opera House’s Stage Door in Covent Garden".
Greg Albers, digital publications manager at the Getty, wants to know if others are interested in a Digital Publishing Interest Group.
Open For Disruption is an article by Martin Franklin about doing small scale digital experiments. "There’s no big fund or team of former-BBC middle managers sanctioning me to do this, it’s just common sense and the application of creative observation to attempt to make things better".
New websites: Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Arts Access Victoria, Alpha Wellcome Library, and Curaterz. Plus these are the culture & lifestyle Webby Awards winners in the website/blog category and the social/campaign category.
Why the ROM’s chief information officer is pushing for a digital museum
Q: So five years, 1.5 million images, mobile apps, access points in the galleries. That’s a huge endeavour. The big question is, why?
A: Well, it’s obvious. This collection doesn’t belong to the museum. It belongs to the public. And technology is the way we’re going to give it back.
Nice answer, that. And a good place to leave things for this week.
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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 just hit the reply button and say hello.