#165 - What does it mean?
Cultural Digital
Hello
This week we have immersiveness, AI, and a round-up of some other stuff that didn't fit into a neat little category.
In his Photographs of Films project, Jason Shulman photographs entire movies with ultra-long exposures "creating impressionist photo masterpieces in the process".
Defining Digital Success. Dafydd James & Kati Price are following up the runaway success of Structuring For Digital Success with this new study. "Our goal is to understand some of the challenges faced by GLAMs and other cultural organisations, and offer advice to help us all be a little better at defining, leading and measuring digital success". Please help out by completing the survey.
Immersive
A call for ideas: Immersive technology in the arts. The Knight Foundation are putting up $750k and asking "In what new ways might arts institutions present immersive experiences to engage audiences?"
Exploring An Immersive Future In Classical Music. An article that features Dutch composer Michel van der Aa, and the Philharmonia and RSC in the UK.
Encounter with History - Evaluation. "Evaluation of the utility of digital technologies to engage Tunisian young people with their heritage". The outcomes of a collaboration between Virtual Experience Company, the University of Cambridge, and the British Council.
Artificial intelligence
Can artificial intelligence become a choreographer? Wayne McGregor brings AI to L.A. "It explores questions like: what does it mean to choreograph? And can interesting choreography be made with help from artificial intelligence?"
Artificial Intelligence, visitor data and ethics: Debating the future of museums. A chat with Dr. Oonagh Murphy following the Curator Computer Creator: Museums and AI event.
Miscellaneous
Arts marketing: have we reached peak belief in digital advertising? Tim Woodall at the Philharmonia Orchestra says "digital is the present and the future, but let’s not algorithm ourselves into irrelevance by all chasing the same diminishing returns on the same platforms".
Culture Creates are working on Footlight, which "programmatically collects, structures and connects public event information converting it into machine readable code and linked data". This article explains a bit more How art institutions can manage their metadata.
Storytelling with the loupe in museums. "The loupe: a tool to explore the stories behind museum pieces. This video shows a prototype developed by Waag Society for the meSch project".
The Great Wave: what Hokusai’s masterpiece tells us about museums, copyright and online collections today. "how do museums holding an impression of Hokusai’s iconic work make it available? To find out, let’s compare fourteen cultural institutions that have digitised and published their ‘Great Wave’ online".
Can you help create the next sculpture emoji? Art UK say "We'd like your help in designing an emoji that becomes the universal language of sculpture and can be shared by sculpture-lovers around the world".
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at Cog Design, the National Theatre, and others.
Thanks as always for reading and sharing.
Chris Unitt
Btw, if you do the social media stuff for a cultural organisation and haven't yet filled out the social media survey I'm running please do that. I'm going to close it soon.