Cultural Digital newsletter #110
Cultural Digital
Hello
This week we've got fancy books, yet more digital collections, and lots and lots of podcasts.
For last year's United Nation's General Assembly, TAMPER were commissioned to create a set of four interactive books. They built a set of physical books with touch-capacity and projected content that they designed and animated.
Breathe is another booky thing, and this one's best read on your mobile phone. It's by Kate Pullinger and is part of Editions at Play (a Google thing).
Creating Access beyond metmuseum.org: The Met Collection on Wikipedia. A round-up of the past year, plus some thinking about the future phases, including:
Success ≠ visits to metmuseum.org
Establish the Wikimedian-in-Residence role as a permanent position
Partnership management: with the goal of scaling the success of the partnership with the Wikimedia community to other digital partners.
The Shape of Art History in the Eyes of the Machine (PDF) "We conducted a comprehensive study of several of the state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks applied to the task of style classification on 77K images of paintings, and analyzed the learned representation through correlation analysis with concepts derived from art history."
Sotheby’s acquires Thread Genius to build its image recognition and recommendation tech.
Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Data as a creative material. Mike Brondbjerg's talk at the Open Data Institute.
Immersive Experiences Award Holders. The Arts and Humanities Research Council has announced who's got some case to do immersive tech stuff. Featuring the kind of tortuous acronyms beloved of people in academia or working on pan-European projects.
Digital analytics – in conversation with Chris Unitt. If you've ever wondered what it is I do all day, then here's a glimpse. Eva Liparova at the V&A asked me a few questions about working with their digital media team.
Dana Allen-Greil's syllabus threads on Twitter are a good place for picking up links to good museum/tech articles and projects.
Every Museum Podcast in One Big List. Hannah Hethmon has put together a very big list.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at the Henry Moore Foundation, New Wolsey Theatre, Natural History Museum, and King's Place.
Thanks for reading, and please share the goodness far and wide.
Chris Unitt
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