Cultural Digital #006
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Hello
As always, please forward this on to anyone who might be receptive, or share your favourite links with people. The aim is to give this kind of stuff some more visibility. Big thanks to everyone who's done that.
Enough of that though. Let's dive in.
Links
Yesterday I spoke at an IT4Arts event about the types of digital activity arts organisations might want to focus on if they want to do more than just tread water. Slides aren't online yet, but here are links to all the things I referenced. Camels not included (you had to be there).
Ã…zone Futures Market
A Guggenheim online exhibition that enables you to take a position on the future of a world increasingly shaped by emerging technologies. Some extra info about it here.
Derby Museums Website Project
"We're documenting the whole project here from start to finish and we'll be including meeting notes, research, wireframes and prototypes."
Data Stories Centralized: A Digital Analytics Dashboard
From Elena Villaespesa at the Met Museum: "as the digital media analyst, my role is to go beyond individual reports and present a full picture of work carried out by the department. With that in mind, I've started working on a dashboard that will display all the data in a single place"
Oh, and here's the new Carnegie Museums dashboard too. It's publicly accessible with the code on GitHub.
Best of 3
This is the blog of Courtney Johnston, the Director of the Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand I've just discovered it and I like it. I'd encourage you to read her Museums and the Web and National Digital Forum 2015 talk notes.
AMA Reflection - Sam Freeman
Another good blog I've just discovered. Check out his recent posts on auditorium heatmapping, but also this one with some thoughts following a recent conference:
"The introduction of digital should have revolutionised the way we communicate with audience, but instead, speaking to a few people, it still feels like a tool, or add on rather than an integral part of what we do."
ACMI LABS
A place to read about the work going on inside the Australian Centre for the Moving Image as it explores new approaches to media and service design, technology and user experience.
Manual Crossfade
Some lovely musings on the effect of technology on theatre lighting and how that can/might affect a performance.
New websites: Smithsonian Learning Lab, Handel and Hendrix, Saffron Hall.
Events
Instead of any specific ones, here are two lists of cultural/digital conferences. One via Frankly, Green + Webb and here's my own list from a while back.
Possibly useful seeing as how I detected at least five conferences all happening yesterday. Organisers please take note.
Jobs
Digital Marketing Manager, Roundhouse
Content Assistant (Digital Screens and Email Communications), Royal Opera House
Digital Programme Manager, Arts, British Council
Digital Marketing & Box Office Coordinator, Pavilion Dance South West
Provided by Artful Jobs.
Thanks for reading and please forward/share if you found it useful.
Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt | chrisunitt.co.uk
When not sending newsletters like this, I work with cultural organisations on projects that involve digital strategy, content and analytics. Visit One Further if you're at all interested in that.