Cultural Digital newsletter #123
Cultural Digital
Hello
This week we have pictures, audio, video and 'other'.
Abhishek Singh says he "wanted to bring one of my favorite #cartoons to life, so here's Wile E. Coyote continuing his quest to catch the Roadrunner in AR". Brilliant.
Lots of photos
Unpacking 260,000 visitor photos at the Royal Ontario Museum. Having collected lots of visitor photos, the ROM used a bit of Google Cloud Vision magic to understand what people were snapping and draw some lessons.
Multiplicity by Truth & Beauty is an installation and "collective photographic city portrait" that sort of does something similar.
Listen along
Watch 'Sleeping Beauty' with a ballet expert in your ear. At San Jose's New Ballet "patrons with special Live Casting tickets will be seated together in the balcony and will dial into a conference call on their own phones (with earbuds) to hear the commentary".
GalaPro is an app that aims to enhance the audience’s experience by "delivering individual multilingual subtitles, closed captioning, dubbing, audio description and amplification to the user's own mobile device. All content is provided real time, using Voice recognition technology, developed specifically for theater and live shows".
Video platforms
Stage Streaming Network: Theater-Centric Channel Launches This Summer. They claim to be the "first streaming network dedicated to the world of theatre" which obviously ignores all the other ones. Their website is thestagenetwork.com.
TED-style art history platform aims to promote arts education online. "Heni Talks features videos from artists including Damien Hirst and Jeremy Deller". Tiny view counts on henitalks.com and somehow even fewer views on their YouTube channel, but I suppose it's early days.
Other things
Dansathon is a dance and tech hackathon to "imagine the future of dance" happening in Lyon, Liege & London in September. The deadline for signing up is 1 June.
'Arrested Development' Actor Portia de Rossi Has Invented a New Technology That She Hopes Will Render Art Galleries Obsolete. Really? "The company’s motto is “Support artists, not art.” (Though the company only offers artists 5% of the profits from each painting sold.)". Oh.
LYRASIS Museum Technology Assessment. "The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided a $90,000 grant to LYRASIS in October 2017 for a six month project to research current technology uses in museums, especially in relationship to collections information management". I'm not sure I mentioned this when it was announced, but the results are due in Spring 2018, so should be on this page shortly.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at Cog Design, Parliamentary Archives, and the University of the Arts London.
There we go. Next week there may well be a mention of GDPR. I bet you can't wait.
Chris Unitt
The Library is a treasure trove of arts/digital info. The latest update includes info on loads of Aus and NZ websites (who built them and which CMS they use). Find out more about The Library.