Cultural Digital newsletter #49
Cultural Digital
Hello
Dedicated follower of fashion that I am, I couldn't help noticing that Karl Lagerfeld staged a show in a data centre for Paris Fashion Week. Huh.
Links
Arts Council England, along with the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, have published From Live-To-Digital which they describe as "the first authoritative piece of primary research into the impacts and opportunities of live to digital work on theatre audiences and organisations".
Meanwhile, Virtual Reality Opera — Saviour or Saboteur? is a look at the process behind creating a VR experience with the Royal Opera Chorus.
Deep-Fried Data. "I run a small web archive for about twenty thousand people. Being invited to speak at the Library of Congress is like being a kid who glues paper fins to a cardboard tube and then gets asked to talk to NASA about rocket propulsion". Pinboard's Maciej Cegłowski is always worth a read.
The dynamics of arts marketing: Three phases. This very nearly passed me by, but it gives some interesting context to the broader scope of arts marketing over the past few decades. On the digital side of things, there's this…
"the scope of discussion has been limited to how arts organisations can use digital technologies, online spaces and social networks for marketing and audience development". Assuming that the audience is there to consume what the arts practitioners produce. "In trying to adjust to the new media environment by introducing online platforms to widen the audience base and deepen their engagement, arts organisations are likely to undergo a complicated process of transformation, the nature of which we have yet to explore".
The Cooper Hewitt brought their Wallpaper Immersion Room and Pens to London last month. In Traveling our technology to the U.K. they "explain the details behind all the technology that went into making this project come alive".
Visiting all the Museums… is a nice touristy look at the digital tech in some of the bigger East coast US museums and galleries.
An interview with Kim Mitchell, MoMA's Chief Communications Officer in MoMA and the Art of Social Media.
Culture24 talking about their Let’s Get Real: Young Audiences project in Getting real about young audiences. Contains a quick outline of some of the experiments the participants did.
Digital and design innovation for the arts "Using service design to support arts, cultural and heritage organisations to come up with some ingenious protoypes". This is a case study from the agency that worked on the Near Now programme in Nottingham, UK.
What Does a Great Distributed Digital Museum Experience Look Like? Nina Simon has "been thinking recently about distributed content experiences".
Buzzing with #MuseumIdeas. Contains notes from the Museum Ideas conference, plus slides from the digital strategy session.
Tag, You're It: Museums and the Internet of Stuff "data has to be a behavior. We need to play proposal thought experiments: if we tag every label, for instance, so it's in our system (whatever that means), what would that take? Why is it important? Who would, could use it?"
Art Tracks: A technical deep dive. A presentation by David Newbury the recent Digital Provenance Symposium at the Carnegie Museum of Art. "It describes the current state of the technology of the Art Tracks project, a digital standard for museum provenance in Linked Data". That slide 31, eh? Heh.
New website
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Events
27 October, New York: The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology Launch
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs up for grabs at the Royal Institution, Natural History Museum, Young Vic, and London Theatre Company.
And that'll do us. Have an excellent week and I'll be back with more later. Oh, and please forward this to others.
Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt
I work with lots of really good cultural organisations on projects involving digital analytics, user testing, and all sorts of other related things. Visit One Further (just be aware it's a new website and a work-in-progress) for more on that.