Hello
This week we have the results of some surveys, a bit about visual arts, and then the usual assortment of links. But first, for anyone who just needs to let it all out (in an arty, performative kinda way)…
Scream The House Down is from Illuminate Productions. "You are invited to vocalise your inner frustrations and power a large-scale light installation. Join a Zoom call and watch your outburst illuminate a four storey office building".
Surveys
COVID-19 Impact: Museum sector research report on the challenges facing museums and galleries" From the ArtFund. "Digital opportunities are immense and the vast majority (86%) of organisations have increased their online presence; but digital resources and expertise are patchy, and many museums are left behind. Finding ways to generate income through online activities is an area of interest to many".
Indigo have released Act 2, the next phase of their huge UK-focused National Audience Research project. There are new questions about experiencing culture digitally (including paying for it).
Alan Brown: New Details Emerging On Interest in Digital Performances.
Visual arts
Art Basel 2020: The pandemic triggers a virtual shift in art. "With a new online-only exhibit for Art Basel, gallerist David Zwirner stresses the need for the art ecosystem to embrace technology".
#artistsupportpledge This a nice initiative. Artists post their work with this hashtag and if people are interested in buying they message the artist. Every time an artist reaches £1,000 of sales, they pledge to buy £200 of work from other another artist.
An Artist Pirated 10 Years Worth of Sotheby’s Auction Data to Expose the 'Manipulation and Secrecy' of the Art Market. "Paolo Cirio is selling digital reproductions of the lots for 1/100,000th of the price they went for on the block".
Miscellaneous
All that is solid melts into Zoom: five thoughts on cultural education in a Covid-shaped world. From Joe Hallgarten, Principal Consultant at the Education Development Trust.
Sustainable processes for building digital skills. A case study by Rob Cawston, Head of Digital Media, National Museums Scotland and Dr Karin de Wild.
A Machine for Viewing, from Dr Richard Misek is "a three-episode hybrid of real-time VR experience, video essay, and occasional expanded cinema performance that explores how we now watch films and videos".
New perspectives on an imperfect cinema: Smartphones, spectatorship, and screen culture 2.0. Food for thought with all the cultural streaming going on.
First steps into IIIF. "I had been aware of IIIF for a while but wasn’t sure where or how to start playing around with it". If you're in the position National Museums Scotland's Adam Coulson was in, this might be handy.
I made an entire DAW in Excel. Bad news if you were thinking of covering Take On Me by using Excel to make a file you could import into something like Ableton. Someone's beaten you to it.
Digital Jobs
National Museums Scotland are looking for a Digital Media Content Producer. There's still not a lot else right now.
Thanks for reading and please forward this on to anyone you think might find it interesting.
Chris Unitt
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