Cultural Digital newsletter #116
Cultural Digital
Hello
There was no email last week because everything decided to happen at once and something had to give. The good news is there's lots to catch up on. Hooray!
Justin Gitlin, aka. Cacheflowe, makes things with code. I came across him via this nice little experiment. He's created lots of interactive installations for museums and public art projects, and he goes over them in this talk.
Ticketing
Preparing for your next big on-sale. A write up of a Ticketing Professionals Conference talk about "lessons learned the hard way when managing a (new) website during a big online on-sale".
A paper for the Museums and the Web Conference in which ACMI and Mia talking about recent museum ticketing projects.
Dancing
Check Out Mantle, Barneys' VR Video Feat. Martha Graham Dancers. "Until April 8, you can visit select Barneys stores or their website to experience Mantle, a surreal 11-minute virtual reality experience featuring current and former Graham company members in eerie choreography by Cynthia Stanley".
Studio Wayne McGregor will establish the QuestLab Network, a "new nationwide talent development programme designed to support movement artists and choreographers to work with technology".
@bellydancebot gives you belly dancing instructions via Twitter. Built with Cheap Bots Done Quick.
AI in everything
Here Comes the Automation: How AI is Poised to Change Filmmaking. "tuck away your skepticism and doubt for the next few minutes and sit back as we explore what it’s like to cocreate stories with machines".
SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Knitting Community - The Atlantic. "Ribald knitters teamed up with a neural-network creator to generate new types of tentacled, cozy shapes".
DADABOTS - using AI to generate black metal and math rock.
Perfected by Bach, fugues have enjoyed an impressive afterlife.
Which includes a link to David Cope's AI-generated fugue, although I think I was more impressed by the civility of the comments on that YouTube vid.
Other things
Reflections from Art UK on building and operating a digital infrastructure for public art collections. The Culture is Digital consultation attracted loads of the usual desperate 'acknowledge me!' types of contributions but there was some good stuff in there too, including this.
Experimental Culture: a horizon scan. "The way we consume arts and culture will change by 2030. This report, commissioned by the Arts Council and developed by Nesta, is a horizon scan for our sector". Includes a few bits of digital stuff.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at English Touring Theatre, Wigmore Hall, and National Museums Scotland.
Please send this on to others who might find it useful, and I'll catch you again next week.
Chris Unitt
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