Cultural Digital newsletter #75 - taking the fun out of things
Cultural Digital
Hello
Olly Gibbs went to a museum "armed with Face App to brighten up a lot of the sombre looks on the paintings and sculptures". I think this one's my favourite…
200+ Free Art Books Are Now Available to Download from the Guggenheim "The initiative to publish certain entries from The Guggenheim's vast library began with 65 catalogs published in 2012, and has now grown to 205 titles".
In 'OMG they're coming for us' news this week, Twitter and Live Nation are partnering to live stream concerts and Amazon are offering exclusive tickets and streaming through Prime subscriptions.
The Tao of Sport podcast has interviews with Roger Tomlinson and Ian Taylor on ticketing in the arts (amongst other things).
Fancy things
Micrópolis is a visual history of public transport in Chile.
Mausoleum of Augustus is "an interactive journey through the Mausoleum of Augustus and the history of Rome, in 12 interactive chapters".
Fabien Stimulak has taken the images released by the Albert-Kahn Museum and created Un monde // Albert Kahn & Opendata
Figures of Speech is a good thing from the Almeida Theatre, but it annoys me that it's on a microsite (which possibly says more about me than anything else).
Taking the fun out of things with data
Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? TLDR: yes.
Predict Movie Rating - NYC Data Science Academy Blog "How can we tell the greatness of a movie before it is released in cinema?" TLDR: not yet. And some of the 'correlations' do far are plainly stupid.
Music things
This is what a 3D-printed Stradivarius copy sounds like. The article dodges the question of how good it sounds. Sounds pretty good to me.
Encore! How the New York Philharmonic became a content management maestro "all organisations could learn about customer engagement from the New York Philharmonic’s imaginative use of its content management and archiving system". Well, that's you told.
Open calls
VARI Embedded Residency for practitioners working with data. "The Victoria & Albert Museum Research Institute (VARI) is inviting nominations and applications for a yearlong embedded residency at the Museum for practitioners working with data as their medium".
The Implications of AI | ThoughtWorks Arts Residency "ThoughtWorks, a global software consultancy with an arts residency based in New York City seeks an artist/technologist who works in their art practice with issues surrounding the design, use and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI)".
Explaining the why and the how
The Barnes talking about their approach to the Barnes Foundation Collection Website
The V&A on (their) The new What’s On
New websites
La Perle, Peckham 24, Reading Museum, Tate Kids.
CultureGeek (sponsor)
CultureGeek is on Friday 19 May in London, so this is your last chance to get a ticket.
Find out more and use discount code 'CulturalDigital' to get a 20% discount (if they're still available).
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Natural History Museum, the BFI, and Wellcome Collection.
Events
24 May 2017, London: Creative AI meetup #7: Lipreading and visual brains
5-6 July 2017, Brighton: Workshop On Graphics For Digital Fabrication In The Arts And Culture
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Cheers
Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt
When not writing emails like this, I run a digital analytics and user research consultancy called One Further, working with some truly excellent cultural organisations.