Cultural Digital - newsletter #48
Cultural Digital
Hello
If you only click one thing this week, make it Paper Planes. You'll need to do it on your phone (just don't get carried away and let go). The pic below doesn't really do it justice.
Links
Arts Council England have released details of their 2018-22 funding plans. Alongside that, they've released their Digital Policy and Plan Guidelines (PDF) because they're keen that "all funded organisations should have a digital policy linked to your overall mission and vision - and a plan for implementing it". It's been put together people at The Space and MTM and, at first glance, looks pretty darn useful.
There's also been a lot of discussion about the extent to which digital activity could be funded via ACE's Grants for the Arts. If you're interested in that, check out pages 35-39 in this consultation report (PDF).
There was a museum ecommerce summit at the Corning Museum this week. Catch up on the #musecomsum16 hashtag.
These slides are from a talk given by Christina Østerby (PDF) from Royal Danish Theatre at the last AMA Conference. It was called 'Leading with an Audience Focus' but it's about digital transformation, agile, data warehouses, workflow automation, and all sorts of buzzwordy stuff.
Royal Opera House Labs. "Learnings for the cultural sector from our experiences in digital, technology and beyond." After my recent request for more performing arts digital/tech blogging, I'm keeping a close eye on this.
After NYPL shutting up shop the other week, Met MediaLab have now signed off too.
Some Like It Bot. "Algorithms are getting better at entertaining us", so say FiveThirtyEight.
First recording of computer-generated music – created by Alan Turing – restored. "Alan Turing’s pioneering work in the late 1940s on transforming the computer into a musical instrument has been largely overlooked."
Future Everything have an open call out for FAULT LINES which "will support the creation of new works by artists and practitioners which contribute to the dialogue between technology, innovation, culture and society".
Build Narratives, Connect Artifacts: Linked Open Data for Cultural Heritage. I haven't watched this webinar recording (it's behind an email signup) but you might like to.
New websites
Eastbourne Theatres, Film Fest Gent, Next Wave 2016, Norwich Theatre Royal, Odense Symfoniorkester.
Events
12-14 November, London: Watermans Digital Weekender 2016
18-20 November, Bristol: Submerge Festival
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs up for grabs at the Young Vic, Royal Museums Greenwich and London Theatre Company.
In case you made it down here without looking at Paper Places, please do. It's lovely.
Otherwise, thanks very much for reading, and don't forget to forward this on to people who might find it useful.
Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt
I work with lots of really good cultural organisations on projects involving digital analytics, user testing, and all sorts of other user research-related things. Visit One Further (just be aware it's a new website and a work-in-progress) for more on that. I've added a client list to the homepage in case you're feeling nosey.