Cultural Digital #042 - mighty morphing historial cat sterographs
Cultural Digital
Hello
This week there are lessons learned, some video-related things, and a cat.
Ryan Baumann says "ever since I saw the NYPL’s Stereogranimator project I’ve wondered about what it would look like to use morphing to visualize historical stereographs". But of course.
The result is Animating Stereograms with Optical Flow Morphing "an uncanny peek into the past that seemed to bring the images alive". Here's the cat - you'll have to click for the full effect.
Links
Open Content at the Getty: Three Years Later, Some Lessons Learned "Inside the legal and technical challenges of releasing two recent digital art history projects via open licensing".
There's a new website for the New York University Division of Libraries. In And We’re Live! they lay out "some of the strategies and practices that worked very well for our community at NYU Libraries, and could perhaps work for those of you about to roll out a new site."
Royal Opera House CTO Joe McFadden interview "Covent Garden Open Up project an opportunity to bring together digital and physical experience at Royal Opera House".
Guest Blog: Tips for using Facebook Live with Getty Museum "Since learning to do Facebook Live broadcasts has been a steep learning curve over the past four months, I thought I would share 14 of my struggles and successes to save others some of the pain I’ve endured".
Sotheby's to create videos about the world's leading museums and collections. Notable for this bit "There is also a clear financial incentive for Sotheby’s to host films on its website. The auction house has seen an increase of 187% in its video views, and clients who engage with videos or other editorial content are 33% more likely to bid, according to a spokesman".
Vores museum (Danish for 'Our Museum') is a national research and development project focussing on on innovative and digital museum communication. Or so says Google Translate.
Keynote: Mixed Reality and the Theatre of the Future "This keynote address was delivered by Joris Weijdom, senior lecturer and researcher at HKU Utrecht University of the Arts / HKU Professorship Performative Processes at the IETM meeting in Amsterdam on April 16, 2016".
LENNA is "an autonomous, computer-run installation. A custom-written software on a computer types code, compiles it, generates color backgrounds and typography, and prints the imageries out on poster papers through a Inkjet printer".
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs up for grabs at various places.
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Chris Unitt
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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.