Cultural Digital newsletter #87
Cultural Digital
Hello
Last week I included a couple of links to things that weren't strictly culture-related and they turned out to be more popular than anything else in the email. I'm still working out what to do with this information. In the meantime…
Transformation Mask is "an interactive installation that features HoloLens. It utilizes electronics and mechanical engineering in a physical transformation, before beginning a holographic experience for the viewer". It's a collaboration between artist Shawn Hunt and a technology company called Microsoft.
Redesigning our website with Area 17 The Barnes Foundation done a website and here's a blog post talking giving "a run down of our main objectives and the broad brushstrokes of how we handled them".
British Museum first to showcase interactive display with wifi link. So this has "an interactive display controlled through a dedicated wifi link within the gallery". I'm not quite sure I totally get how this works, but I'm sure it's marvellous. You'll not be surprised to learn that Google have been involved in this BM project too.
Instant SMK art info? There’s an app for that. "Vizgu lets the visitor point his/her smartphone camera at an SMK painting and thus call up metadata, descriptive text and audio where available". Vizgu?
Six months of the Met Museum's Open Access Initiative. Loic Tallon with a round-up of what's happened since they "made available all 375,000+ images of public-domain works in The Met collection under Creative Commons Zero". Lots of good things, essentially. It's not also led to…
When art meets big data: Analyzing 200,000 items from The Met collection in BigQuery "This new public dataset is invaluable for anyone who wants to learn how to build a custom machine-learning model, create an app for sorting and visualizing the images, and more".
Deep Learning Our Way Through Fashion Week. EDITED are quite an interesting company generally. Here's them answering the question "What have artificial intelligence and autoencoding got to do with 3,000 runway images?"
Superfans Unite: A New Breed Reimagines Criticism for a Digital Age. "They are superfans — sophisticated ones — using visual aids to break down shows and movies for superfans. And their handiwork makes the audience for these pop-culture spectacles even bigger and more engaged".
Can Rapid 3-D Printing Boost Performance Art? Performa Teamed Up With MIT Scientists to Find Out. "Performa is launching a three-year partnership with the Brown Arts Initiative (BAI), a program founded in 2017 at Brown University to support all things experimental in the arts". Their first commission is a piece that will be created by Kelly Nipper, a performance and multimedia artist, and developed with MIT's mind-boggling Self-Assembly Lab.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at the Royal Academy of Arts, London Philharmonic Orchestra, National Gallery, Roundhouse, Young Vic, and RAF Museum.
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Cheers
Chris Unitt
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.