Cultural Digital #041 -Â cyberwonderlandcraziness
Cultural Digital
Hello
No messing about this week. Let's get into it…
Tilt Brush is the VR-based 3D painting thing that I linked to a while back (remember the Disney animator drawing Ariel?). The ability to make things audio reactive came out in a recent update and someone's used it to make a music video.
The director is Jaymis Loveday and he's explained quite a bit about the project on Reddit.
Links
More musical VR cyberwonderlandcraziness in Symphonies in space: orchestras embrace virtual reality which focusses on the Hubble Cantata but also mentions Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Tim Fain's Resonance.
For fans of hand-wringing… Does technological analysis destroy the romance of art history? and Are Replicas Changing the Way We Experience Art? Meanwhile, Anastasia S. Varnalis-Weigle has taken a phenomenological approach to investigate User Experience with Physical and Digital Objects.
The Digital Innovation Fund for the Arts in Wales has a new website. Related: Nesta have published a piece called Measure what you can: data to support innovation in the arts, where they say they're considering whether it would be helpful for their programmes to include support around how arts organisations make best use of data.
Speaking of data…
“Hey could you give me the numbers on that again?” "This summer my job has been to create a dynamic dashboard that pulls in data from sources all over MoMA, that ideally updates automatically".
Using data to help people celebrate Matariki "The Digital Team wanted to increase the reach and engagement of their Matariki content, helping to foster further awareness of Te Papa’s association with Matariki". This is great.
Art Traffic at the Louvre "The research team deployed 7 Bluetooth sensors, with sufficient coverage to measure visiting sequences and duration at key representative locations".
What the Anne Frank House learned from 16,000 micro-survey responses. I'm a big fan of micro-surveys.
SXSW PanelPicker - Can Data Save the Arts? Devon Smith's panel at SXW would look at organisations that "are using data in provocative ways and whether it’s actually having an impact". Worth a vote.
Finally, this one isn't strictly cultural
Or at all cultural, but it is very good. The Nieman Journalism Lab have rounded up some of the coolest experiments in digital news coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympics. Spotted via the Storythings newsletter, which is also good.
Events
25 August 2016, London: The Lost Palace - DrinksThing
1–30 September 2016, Brighton and Hove: Brighton Digital Festival
4 October, London: Museum iD free workshops
19 October, London: MCG's Museums+Tech 2016: Sharing our Stories
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs up for grabs at Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, Donmar Warehouse, Bush Theatre, and the Barbican.
Thanks for reading, and please pass it on to others who might find it useful.
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.