Cultural Digital newsletter #80 - fruity dinosaurs
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Hello
This week's there are lots of variations on the theme of 'new ways of seeing things'. We've got visualisations, mash-ups of illustrations, new concepts for TV, and 3D printing. Plus a few things that don't fit into that theme at all.
Chris Rodley used deep learning to cross a book of dinosaurs with a book of flowers. He also did it with 19th century engravings of fruit. This sort of stuff still blows my mind.
Patreon's New Features: Tools to Run Your Membership Business. I find Patreon, and the way it's developing, fascinating. PRM is the smart new release, but Lens and the Crowdcast integration are interesting too.
A collection visualisation from the National Museum of Norway "We trained an algorithm to identify similarities based on attributes like style and subject. On top we built this interface to show how it groups the works. We hope this novel way of navigating the collection makes it easier to discover new works".
Makeover Monday - The Tate Collection. A group of data visualisers picked Tate for this week's project. "Metadata about thousands of paintings and drawings and probably quite a different dataset for the Makeover Monday community".
How Could Data Transform the Arts? Devon Smith's slides from the recent TCG Conference with a barrage of case studies. Lots to dig into.
Top 10 3D Printing Companies to Watch in the Art Industry. A handy primer.
Tellybox is a BBC R&D project. "…our first set of prototypes included a pretend forum thread with people describing their experiences of personalised soap operas; some packaging for micro-drone machine-learning media bees; plus video adverts for a robot teddy TV companion and a TV on which two people could watch different programmes at the same time".
At the Cannes Film Festival, Tech and Tradition Collide. A piece about how Amazon, Netflix, and Mubi got on the other week.
Russell Dornan, who's shown himself to be a dab hand at Twitter, is leaving the Wellcome Collection. He went out on a high with a Little Mermaid-themed tour of the collection.
New websites
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Old Vic Theatre, Papillons de Nuit 2017
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at Tincan and JW3.
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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.