Cultural Digital #040 - visitor experiences and connected jamming
Cultural Digital
Hello
If you're reading this then I'm guessing you're either not off on holiday or have just come back (in which case, I hope you had a lovely time). For those that are still around, this week there's some video-related links, a big train set, and I finally get to include something I've written.
Water lily is described as a connected jam video. It connects users in an interactive group jam session, so you can play together with whoever is online at that time. So I guess if you all click this then you can play a song together. That's nice.
Links
Digital Analysts Enhance The Online Visitor Experience. I wrote this about how cultural organisations have been slow to embrace digital analytics and make a comparison with in-person visitor experience, which tends to be taken a lot more seriously.
The Tessitura Network have livestreamed sessions from their conference and you can watch them back. The Royal Opera House's Heather Walker apparently did a good talk on 'The Journey from Customer Care to Visitor Experience'.
Casey Neistat: What You Don't See. This video essay assumes you know who Casey Neistat is (and you probably should do) and does a great job of explaining what's so interesting about his work. "Neistat's revolutionary move is bringing a decade of videographic experience to a subgenre that prizes amateur craft".
Speaking of video, some Museum Computer Network people have published this Survey of Media Production in Museums. Do fill it in if that's your thing.
There's something quite engrossing about Benjamin Grosser's 'Touching Software', a supercut of touch-based human-computer interactions from House of Cards.
The Power of Social Media vs. Your Organization’s Website from Colleen Dilenschneider is interesting enough, but surely this isn't close to being an either/or thing. Social media channels and websites are very different things and play very different roles.
Reflecting the Museum: How Instagram brings back seeing "Instagram is an increasingly popular platform for museums to explore. Russell Dornan on how the social network allows museums to create new kinds of mutual engagement".
A Lost Palace Gets Recreated in London There's "a new augmented tour from charity Historic Royal Palaces, designers Chomko & Rosier, and theater makers Uninvited Guests called The Lost Palace". It uses binaural sound and a haptic custom-made wooden device, with audiences "led by many voices spoken throughout the often disorienting 3D stereo sound coming through your headphones".
Wunderland. "Explore the magic of the world's largest model railway exhibit". This is a Google Maps thing, but it's also quite delightfully nuts.
Events
6-9 October, Pittsburgh: WEIRD REALITY: Head-Mounted Art && Code
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs going at the Donmar Warehouse, Tate, Bush Theatre and the Barbican.
Thanks as ever for reading, and please do forward this on or tweet a link or something (that 'web version' link just down there is shareable).
Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt
When not sending newsletters like this, I work with really good cultural organisations on projects involving digital analytics, user research, measuring content performance, and wider digital strategy. Visit One Further for more on that.