Cultural Digital newsletter #151
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Hello
This week's round-up is mainly miscellaneous, but there's a bit on evaluation methods/findings and some AI too. But it's mostly a mish-mash of all sorts.
Space Oddity – a visual deconstruction is a data visualisation project on David Bowie’s Space Oddity by designer Valentina D'Efilippo and researcher Miriam Quick. This article by Valentina gives some of the background.
Testing and evaluation
Evaluación de la estrategia digital en los museos. A paper by Elena Villaespesa reviewing the different methods used by museums to evaluate the impact of their digital initiatives and understand their users.
A couple of things from the Whitney:
Dimensions of Museum Data. Colin Brooks on pulling exhibition info into Google Analytics.
Visitor Motivation Survey and Audience Segmentation for the Whitney Museum of Art Website. Sydney Stewart on "creating user segments based on the motivation survey and Google Analytics" to inform web development and content.
Replacing icons with words: little changes with big impact. Findings from a test at ACMI.
Artificial Intelligence
The Met x Microsoft x MIT Open Access AI Hack. "The Met, Microsoft, and MIT collaborated on a hackathon to showcase the potential of AI to help democratize and scale the impact of The Met’s collection around the globe".
Museums and Artificial Intelligence Network Launches. "Dr Oonagh Murphy, Lecturer in Arts Management at Goldsmiths, University of London has been awarded funding from the AHRC to collaborate with Dr Elena Villaespesa, Pratt Institute, New York to examine the potential impact of AI on Museum practice". One to watch.
Miscellaneous
Penint (probably a bit NSFW). You know how Google made those AI-assisted drawing programmes? This is sort of like that. Look, I'm sorry, ok?
Fortnite’s Marshmello concert was a bizarre and exciting glimpse of the future.
Tin Men and the Telephone: the jazz band you control with a smartphone. "the Dutch trio’s new app lets you set the tempo of their gig – and even improvise an instrumental".
El pleonasme de la cultura digital. A Catalan take on the UK's Culture is Digital report. Is the title of that report really a pleonasm? I didn't know, so I looked up what it meant. I don't think it is.
The Single Digital Presence for public libraries: our research so far. From the British Library.
Let’s Get Real 7, from Culture24, will be all about "developing deeper human connection across digital channels".
Britain, Take A Bow is a "generative artwork that sequences vignettes of British life, captured by a collaboration of filmmakers and artists across the UK". Sigh.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at the National Trust and Royal Museums Greenwich.
Thanks, and please share the good stuff around. I'll catch you next time.
Chris Unitt