Cultural Digital newsletter #69 - appealingly blunt
Cultural Digital
Hello
This week there's a bit of marketing, some digital dance fun, some academic stuff, and a picture of a cat. For these are varied waters in which we swim.
Europeana have released Art up your Tab to put art from their collections in your browser, joining the likes of Google Art Project and the Met Museum.
A couple of marketing-related things. How Scottish Ballet make micro-moments work and also how Shakespeare’s Globe used proximity marketing to increase ticket sales
From arts marketing to audience enrichment: How digital engagement can deepen and democratize artistic exchange with audiences. For the marketers out there, when someone asks what you do, be sure to slip in phrases like 'cognitive decoding' and 'kinaesthetic responses'.
Free guide to GDPR and data protection for charities. If you don't know about the new data protection rules then this will get you up to speed nice and quickly. Highly recommended if you have anything to do with marketing, fundraising, or collecting any sort of user data, plus It's written in an appealingly blunt manner.
Dolby Labs is using biosensors to learn how we’re reacting to movies and shows. Ooh, fancy.
A couple of digital dance-related things that might work well together. Instructions for making interactive dancing socks, using some vibrating motors, some sensors, and an Arduino. Also, Dance Dance Convolution will take a raw audio track and generate a step chart for the similarly named computer game.
A (born digital) health check from the National Library of New Zealand "in 2016 we undertook an environmental scan of the current state of born digital archival and special collections material across the country. […] We wanted to uncover data about how prepared and positioned the GLAM sector is to collect and preserve these collections in memory institutions, and measure New Zealand’s progress against international benchmarks".
‘A space of negotiation’: Visitor Generated Content and Ethics at Tate "This article uses Tate as a case study through which to explore the ethical dimensions of museums’ and galleries’ efforts to create participatory digital encounters for visitors. To what extent, it asks, is a framework for a digital museum ethics beginning to emerge at Tate?"
Calls for things
Brighton Digital Festival and the British Science Festival are co-commissioning a new digital artwork and have put out an open call.
The National Digital Forum in New Zealand will be held at Te Papa from 21/22 November and they've put out a call for presentations.
The Open Library of Humanities is asking for papers on the subject of Remaking Collections. "This special collection of articles will address emerging creative practices around digital collections".
New website
The Lowry Theatre.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at the Heritage Lottery Fund, National Trust, Frieze Museum of London, British Council, Royal Academy of Arts, and English National Opera,
Please share the links around, and thanks as ever for reading.
See you next time.
Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt
I work with lots of really good cultural organisations on projects involving digital analytics and user research. Visit One Further for more on that.