Cultural Digital newsletter #156
Cultural Digital
Hello
This week there's European stuff, yet more immersiveness, and some conferences. But first…
The snap+share exhibition at SFMOMA explores how "networks are created through the act of sending images out into the world" and makes a link between mail art and social networks. The New York Times has a write-up with some good pics.
Europe
EU Member States sign up to cooperate on digitising cultural heritage. "They will work more closely together to better use state-of-the-art digital technologies in addressing risks that Europe’s rich cultural heritage is facing, enhancing its use and visibility, improving citizen engagement, and supporting spillovers in other sectors". You can watch a video of it being signed at Digital Day 2019 if you like.
European Parliament adopts the copyright directive: A boost for Europe's cultural heritage institutions. Europeana's take on the directive. You may have seen other takes on this.
The Time Machine Project is "an international collaboration to build a map of European history that spans thousands of years".
VR/AR/immersive
You Can Now Join Doctors as They Dissect a Corpse in Rembrandt's Most Famous Painting Through Augmented Reality "Rembrandt Reality has been created by Dutch virtual reality start-up Capitola, allows viewers to enter The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp".
The Creative Worlds of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Coventry University's Institute of Coding and the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum are working together to support the creative sector to do AR/VR stuff.
Limina have opened a VR theatre in Bristol.
Conferences
Musings from MuseWeb 2019. A really good write-up of the conference from Helen Adams at Oxford GLAM.
MuseumNext's SlideShare account has slides from last month's Culture Geek London (and other past conferences).
Humanizing the Digital: Unproceedings from the MCN 2018 Conference. A book with "17 conference-inspired responses to the state of museum technology in 2018".
Miscellaneous
The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard University | Library Innovation Lab is a "forward-looking group of thinkers and doers working at the intersection of libraries, technology, and law".
Amplified is a pilot programme from Nesta supporting "cultural and creative organisations seeking to develop digital ideas that improve the lives of others". They've just announced who they're funding.
Inclusive Digital Interactives. Access Smithsonian, the Institute for Human Centered Design, and MuseWeb are gathering essays for an online publication about inclusive digital interactives in exhibitions.
RA News: Red Bull Music Academy and Red Bull Radio to shut down this year.
Webby Awards People’s Voice. Their website is slightly more usable this year (I always moan about it) and there are are some cultural organisations among the nominees.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at the National Trust, English Heritage, and Royal Museums Greenwich.
Molte grazie.
Chris Unitt