Cultural Digital newsletter #138
Cultural Digital
Hello
These newsletters used to come out on Saturdays. Now Tuesdays? What's going on? Anyway. I've been writing this on the way up to speak at Hello Culture Remix in Birmingham. Hi if you're there.
This week we have immersion, spods, research, surveys, and feelings. But we start with…
Popularity Contest: Which Artist Is More Popular On Spotify? I'm a bit addicted to this. My best score so far is 19, in case you want to be competitive about it.
Immersion heating up
Immerse UK → Upcoming competitions. "Up to £8m is available for business-led R&D projects that enable immersive content to be created faster, more efficiently or in new ways, and which improve significantly on the current ‘state-of-the-art’ in the field".
Digital Catapult - Mapping creative immersive media trends. "We created a list of 130 of the most impactful immersive creative media experiences from the last 4-5 years, and after several months of research combining data, interviews, our own experience and feedback from focus groups, we identified 15 creative format trends with significant mainstream potential".
Reaching generations
Artspod is a "brand new website and channel focussing on short form video which will see theatres, music venues, stadiums, galleries, museums and production companies combining to attract their audiences by aggregating topical and unique video content. It's free and easy to use and launches October 10th 2018. What's not to like!" Spod: a dull or socially inept person, especially someone who is excessively studious. Hmm.
More on Artspod in Reaching the iPhone generation.
Engaging with the YouTube Generation - Young Cultural Journeys Report 2018. The aim of this is to "provide actionable data and intelligence about the globally connected, technology enabled lives young people are living today, so we can understand young people’s world-views, needs, motivations, expectations and desired outcomes".
Little Geeks at mac birmingham looks fun.
Other things
When Art Created by Artificial Intelligence Sells, Who Gets Paid? Questions about "ownership, obsolescence, and the art world jobs that algorithms can’t do".
Front-of-house staff / volunteers and Digital Museum Projects is a research project that aims to "explore the ways in which front-of-house museum staff and volunteers are, or could be, effectively involved in digital projects as visitor experience experts".
Shakespeare Learning Zone is the Royal Shakespeare Company's new online learning resource.
The Hallwyl Museum 1st Floor Combined. "This is an attempt at squeezing the entirety of 1st Floor State Rooms The Hallwyl Museum into a single model, ready for viewing in webVR".
Piano Lessons in the Panopticon. "A few years ago, I began taking jazz piano lessons on the internet". I'm learning the piano too - my teacher would hate this article.
Digitizing the vast 'dark data' in museum fossil collections. This is all about how digitisation is a good thing.
Are we asking the right question(s)? Dr Lynda Kelly reflects on the recent Conference on Mobile Position Awareness Systems and Solutions (COMPASS) at the Exploratorium.
New Tech To Inform Broad Art Museum Visitors. "The Broad Art Museum is looking to expand the world of possibilities though a project called the Smart Label Initiative. The Knight Foundation has awarded the museum a $50,000 grant for the effort to connect people with the arts through technology".
Feel Something? Some videos from a new ad campaign by those crazy kids at MONA.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at the British Museum, SOLT and more.
Thanks for reading. Please share the good stuff. Hasta luego.
Chris Unitt
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