Cultural Digital #037 - the one with all the playable things
Cultural Digital
Hello
There are so many things to play with this week!
The first one is Mix The Play from the British Council (and others), where you get to play director for a scene of A Midsummer Night's Dream. And if you like that there's Mix the City which is a music one.
Links
Elbphilharmonie: Rock’n’Roll "Discover Hamburg's new architectural and musical landmark through an interactive drone chase". Because, well… of course. I'd love to know how much this cost. It's pretty good fun, though.
The Museum of London have prodcued the Great Fire 1666 in Minecraft with help from Adam Clarke (digital producer), Dragnoz (game designer), and Blockworks (mapbuilders).
Chordsurfer is one of those lane-jumping games and it's to promote Red Bull TV's Season of Festivals.
Google have released their Arts & Culture app on Android and iOS.
Musical things
Composers seek new definition of greatness in a digital age is from Sound and Music's Susanna Eastburn.
BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2016, How 'Cello' was filmed
Cellist Sol Gabetta's 300-year-old instrument was turned into a screen for a unique film for the BBC Proms, 2016.
Music on the Blockchain is a report from Middlesex University. In short, the system that underpins Bitcoin might work for keeping track of music copyright info and for dealing with royalty payments. Hooray.
VR Sessions. A startup is recording bands in 360 degrees. Also hooray.
Data mining and deep learning
SherlockNet "Using Convolutional Neural Networks to automatically tag and caption the British Library Flickr collection" This is one of the winners of the British Library Labs Competition.
Robots Reading Vogue "Data Mining is in Fashion". I see what they did there.
Other bits and bobs
Do we have a content strategy in the museums? Do we need one? A thorough write-up of a recent seminar, by Conxa Rodà at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.
£500K for digital innovation projects that engage older people Nominet Trust and the Baring Foundation "have put up £500,000 of funding for projects that help reach out to the over 65s using digital creative arts".
Kadenze "brings together educators, artists, and engineers from leading universities across the globe to provide a world-class education in the fields of art and creative technology".
New websites
Art - National Galleries Scotland, C'est la Vie Festival, Frank Lloyd Wright's Fontana Boathouse, Imogen - Shakespeare's Globe, Multimedia Guides to Polish Culture.
Events
26 July, Birmingham: Summer CAKE
14 September, Oxford: Access All Areas - Improving access to digital content for disabled people
Jobs
There's a digital-related job (Website Content Editor) going at the Southbank Centre.
Thanks for reading. See you again next week.
Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt
When not sending newsletters like this, I work with really good cultural organisations on projects involving digital analytics, user testing, measuring content performance, and wider digital strategy. Visit One Further for more on that.