Cultural Digital newsletter #154
Cultural Digital
Hello
This week we have video walls, tweets about buttons, and using expensive computers to tell a boat from a tree. Y'know, the usual kind of stuff.
The Kipnes Lantern is the glass tower above the new front entrance of Canada's National Arts Center. It "incorporates cutting-edge transparent LED screens" so you can see through it during the day, and it becomes a video wall at night. They're partnering with a multimedia studio called Moment Factory on this too.
Twitter
Character Count Podcast: Monterey Bay Aquarium "how memes can save the ocean". From Twitter's new podcast.
NP Boyce on Twitter. "Lovely @DavidBowieReal references in the @britishlibrary New Year email". Some email copywriting fun.
艾未未 Ai Weiwei on Twitter. "Can I have them all?"
More immersion
Immerse. "Creative discussion of emerging nonfiction storytelling". With an editorial board that features MIT Open Documentary Lab, Sundance Institute, IDFA DocLab, POV, and Tribeca Film Institute.
Tourist attractions are being transformed by immersive experiences.
Opera beyond. "the objective of Opera Beyond is to explore, break boundaries, and create extraordinary immersive experiences".
Everything else
The Digital Culture Survey 2019 needs you! "The fifth year of the Digital Culture survey has launched - a joint undertaking by the Arts Council and Nesta".
How the Australian Centre for the Moving Image is connecting to the future. Includes a mention of 'the lens' that will be used to collect info (cf the Copper Hewitt Pen) and unlock information from 'The Constellation'. I have a feeling we'll be hearing more about this.
West Kowloon Cultural District Brings Art To The People With Salesforce. This is a promotional piece, but interesting despite that..
Defining digital – One by One. Says here that "museum people need a consistent set of terms, definitions and ways of understanding ‘digital skills’". This is a round-up of a few approaches.
Telling stories with numbers: five artists using big data. Ft Moritz Stefaner, Nathalie Miebach, Aaron Koblin, Paolo Cirio, and Julie Freeman.
Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale. "Using a simple game interface, participants tapped, dragged, and zoomed images of works in The Met collection to determine whether they depicted a house, boat, flower, or tree".
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at NT Live, Substrakt, the V&A, National Trust, Royal Academy of Arts, and Cog Design.
Grazie mille.
Chris Unitt