Cultural Digital newsletter #90
Cultural Digital
Hello
I hadn't meant to take another week off from this email last week, but these things happen. This week we're back with dance, social media, agility, fundraising, and all sorts of other things.
Daniil Simkin is a principal at American Ballet Theatre. The other week he presented a dance work called Falls the Shadow at the Guggenheim in New York. It was designed to be looked down on from the rotunda with the dancers' movement used to "generate video imagery that streams over and around them".
A well-planned approach: Digital content & social media at HOME, Manchester. Sarah Leech describes how they do their thing. Meanwhile, there are some interesting nuggets in this Inside Broadway's Social Media Problem; What Can and Can't Go Up.
How we build products at the V&A – agile or fragile? | Victoria and Albert Museum. Eva Liparova on the V&A's product management: "seven things I can recommend and what we have learned along the way".
Also from the V&A, How We Collected WeChat.
Mutiny at the Met? Thomas Campbell on the Price of Modernization at America's Greatest Museum. I'm sure we're all bored of the commentary around the Met Museum leadership now, but I was interested to learn that Thomas Campbell's next move will be to continue his "exploration of the digital future of museums" via a Getty Rothschild Fellowship. Last word on this - Daniel Weiss, President of the Metropolitan Museum says "I think his vision around digital has been spot-on". So there we go.
How a stranger 700 miles away is showing me the world's greatest art. This is quite a lovely reflection on watching livestreams from the Museo Nacional del Prado.
Mystery solved: unknown soldier was painted by his mother. Art UK's Art Detective website has been getting a bit of attention in the press.
From Prosaic to Personal: Transforming City Data Through Art. Examples of artists using data about, and generated by, cities.
R—each is a "collaborative platform that explores ways of using online participation to construct offline physical artworks". They want your darkness, remoteness, and silence and there are a few days left to contribute.
Six charities with excellent online donation user journeys. In case you want some charity case study inspiration.
Olaf Falafel says that "Opera singers dubbed with dial up modems could be the next big thing". I won't argue with that.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at the National Gallery, Roundhouse, Natural History Museum, Kew Gardens, and National Museums Liverpool.
Thanks for reading. There'll definitely be another one of these next week. I know that because I've mostly written it already. Until then!
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.