Cultural Digital newsletter #153
Cultural Digital
Hello
This week we have music, skills, exhibitions, theatre - all sorts of stuff. There's something for everybody, probably.
Refik Anadol makes AV performance and exhibitions that make use of architecture and data. He's got some impressive work in his portfolio. The pic below is from an installation called ' Melting Memories'.
I came across him via this tweet about making 'machine hallucinations' using ~250k images of Gothic and Renaissance era architecture.
Digital exhibitions
An interview with Micheal Connor from Rhizome. Talking on the Recode Decode podcast about their show at the New Museum and chronicling 'net art'.
Are Digital Exhibitions a Money Saver? "Analysing these exhibitions provides interesting findings, and gives an unexpected comparison when looking at available exhibitions generally".
18 Museums Boosting the Scene of Digital Art.
Music
'This process of trying to get on playlists is becoming borderline farcical'. From a panel at the FastForward conference in Amsterdam
To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet. This is pretty extraordinary.
Inside Octave 9, a high-tech venue that lets Seattle Symphony explore the future of music. "A modular, surround video screen is made up of 13 moveable panels, 10 ultra-short-throw projectors and motion-capture cameras that can create 360-degree visuals inside the room".
Broadway
‘American Son’ Set for Netflix. It'll be interesting to see if this takes off. I wonder if the success of Fences helped.
How An Online Fandom Put Be More Chill on Broadway.
Skills
Do you have opinions on digital skills in the heritage sector? If so, please talk to me… Tom Steinberg is the the Digital Lead at the National Lottery Heritage Fund (UK).
Technologists and ethos. Jeremy Ottevanger on "the skilling of technologists in museums, as opposed to skilling of museums in technology".
Miscellaneous
Cheltenham Festivals on Twitter. "Meet AIDA, our first ever @CheltSciFest AI Guest Curator".
We must fight to preserve digital information. "Open policies and practices are needed to save our digital memory, says Richard Ovenden, the Bodley’s Librarian at the University of Oxford".
European Theatre Lab is "Europe’s first think tank devoted to researching a digital strategy for theatre". I'm not 100% sure this project is still running, but their Digital Theatre Casebook (PDF) has a bunch of essays.
Relaunching Softly: the Whitney’s Online Collection. "So much of what the Museum does on a day to day basis is tied to exhibition programming, either for current shows or those on the horizon, that carving out time to look back or undertake the difficult infrastructural work inherit to collections can be extremely difficult". I'm sure many can relate.
Britain on film map. The BFI have put out a new thing.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at the National Trust, Royal Academy of Arts, Tate, New Wolsey Theatre, and Cog Design.
Big thanks for reading. I'll catch you next time.
Chris Unitt