Cultural Digital newsletter #134
Cultural Digital
Hello
This is one of those ones where I've not really been able to group things in a nice, coherent way. So don't say I didn't warn you.
Kuula wants to be the home for 360° images and virtual tours. There are a few cultural sites on there already, but it was the illustrations that surprised me. So here's a museum-y illustration and here's a 360° Cat Café one.
AI and Museum Collections. Adam Moriarty asks "Faced with a Museum collection so large it may never be completely digitally catalogued, can AI offer a solution?"
Digital Literacy: the time is nigh. Adam Koszary's thoughts from the Cardiff One By One Digital Literacy Lab.
More than paint on a wall: Hands-on with VR and AR in art museums from Chicago to Seattle. Trigger warning: museum people might not like the first line of this.
Episode 28: Virtually Yours. Museopunks have done a couple of episodes on VR. This one features Michael Haley Goldman talking about experiments at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Kai Frazier on CuratedXKai.
RETHINK Data Artist Residency. "The National Maritime Museum wishes to appoint a creative practitioner working with data to analyse, interpret and creatively display the information collected through the RETHINK Digital system".
Crowdsourced Digital Art Projects: Centralization and Agency. Interesting this - categorising projects based on how much control is exercised by the project initiator and finding that "there was an inherent difference in the product of the project depending on the control mechanisms established by the project initiator".
The Latest from a Forward-Looking Funder Using Technology to Engage People with the Arts. Some discussion of what the Knight and Wallace Foundations are doing in this area.
Art and design schools must cultivate creators, not theorists. "Most of my students are fully engaged with the modern world of tech. They have embraced their tech obsession by learning how to use CNC routers, laser cutters and 3D printers when they build furniture. Unfortunately, their interactions with these tools involve handing a program file to a service desk and returning hours later to pick up the milled, cut or layered object". Which I think could be read alongside…
Is Instagram Changing The Dance World's Value System? "As I hunt for signs of real training and artistic quality, I find myself sliding into a virtual Insta-K-hole, ending up a bit confounded and depressed".
The Gallerists Using Social Media to Make Way For the Next Generation of Collectors. "We spoke to Unit London […] about social media's role in reshaping the art market for a new generation of collectors".
The 6 Best Platforms for Artists to Build their Websites. Artsy rounds up a few of the slightly lesser know platforms.
Digital Preservation Symposium. Videos from ACMI's event.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at Cog Design, Art UK, the British Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, and Welsh National Opera.
That brings us to the end of another email. See you again next week?
Chris Unitt
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