Cultural Digital newsletter #163
Cultural Digital
Hello
This week we've got social media, music, and cheese. Plus I do some pleading.
Imaginary Cities at the British Library is an exhibition by British-American artist Michael Takeo Magruder exploring "the changing nature of archives and collections in the Digital Age".
Social media survey
If you look after social media for a cultural organisation PLEASE do me a favour and take two minutes to complete this survey. Or pass it on to someone else who does. It's for a thing I'm doing. Thanks!
Music
Robot rhythms: the startups using AI to shake up the music business. Mentions MXX and Melodrive specifically.
The 2019 meeting of the Music Publishers Association featured "a lively panel about the digital distribution of musical scores".
Miscellaneous
Martha Henson on Twitter said "Having a conversation elsewhere about the ways in which funding for digital/tech esp in arts and culture is broken. Any thoughts on here?" Lots of interesting replies. Not many saying the opposite. There are plenty of orgs that are serial recipients of funding for digital/tech in the arts - it'd be interesting to hear their views.
Say cheese! From the Science Museum. "Over 50,000 images are now in our online collection, to celebrate we went behind the scenes with our photography team".
Theatre stars take a bow ... on a coffee table near you. "Avatars of actors can be reproduced and shrunk to just a few inches high so that they can act, dance or sing on your coffee table. Or they can perform lifesize, turning your entire living room into a stage". How big is this journalist's living room?
The Museum of English Rural Life kindly asked "please put this cow in more paintings". And so lots of people did. Remarkable, really.
Creative Scotland Investments Quiz is really old now, but it popped into my head the other day so I'm including it here. It's based on a Culture Hack Scotland 2013 project by Yann Seznec and was built by Gavin.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at Art UK, Cambridge Junction, National Theatre, Imperial War Museum, Wellcome Trust and others.
Thanks for reading, and please do the social media survey or send it on to any cultural social media managers of your acquaintance.
Chris Unitt