Cultural Digital #053 - gifs and doodles
Cultural Digital
Hello
You may have noticed that this is email #53. Which means that last week was #52. Which means that I've now done a year of Cultural Digital newsletters - hooray! I've no idea how I failed to spot that one, and am kinda surprised I've managed that many.
Anyway, you didn't sign up to this list for navel-gazing. You signed up for things like this…
If you click the image above you'll see the winners of GIF IT UP 2016.
Links
Tech comes to The Tempest in new RSC production. A fascinating interview with the RSC's Sarah Ellis and Ben Lumsden from Imaginarium Studios about how they've created a digital version of Ariel.
Experiments, from Google Arts & Culture Try out experiments at the crossroads of art and technology, created by artists and creative coders with Google Arts & Culture. Also, if you've not played with Quick, Draw! then definitely do. Neural networks + doodles = fun.
TUSK is rolling out a new series of articles "we wanted to hone in on digital and try to grapple with how we use/abuse/love/detest our increasingly digital lives. This is for a number of reasons but primarily because both Matariki and myself are currently both grappling with the beast that is born-digital collecting, specifically social media". That post led me to…
DocNow is "a tool and a community developed around supporting the ethical collection, use, and preservation of social media content". Documenting DocNow is nice and thorough behind-the-scenes look at how it's being built.
Top social-media jobs in the art world come with six-figure salary "A recent advert for a social media manager at the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC, offers a salary ranging from $92,145 to $119,794—a testament to the essential role digital posts now play in museums".
The Library of Congress has a new homepage and this interview with Natalie Buda Smith about User Experience (UX) Design in Libraries talks about it, and designing with libraries more generally.
Apollo Awards 2016 - Digital Innovation of the Year. Finalists include Art UK, The Museum of Digital Art, MoMA Exhibitions Database, Illuminated: Manuscripts in the Making, Digitisation in Daghestan, and The Next Rembrandt.
11 Fiction Podcasts Worth a Listen, from The New York Times.
The Futures of Arts & Museums "In this series on From Complexity to Emergence, we’re recapping IAM Weekend 16 and bringing you everything we learned and explored in one place".
New websites
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, British Museum - Search, Maxim Gorki Theater.
Events
9 December 2016, London: 3D4ever: building three dimensional models to last
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs up for grabs at Spotlight, Storyhouse, and Art UK.
Thanks so much for reading. If you could do me the favour of telling other people about it then I'd be very grateful (here's a link). Enjoy your week.
Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt
I work with lots of really good cultural organisations on projects involving digital analytics, user research, and all sorts of other related things. Visit One Further for more on that.