Cultural Digital #217
A critical canine, AI, and behind the scenes
Hello
After a brief hiatus, Cultural Digital is back with a pooping dog, a load of AI stuff, and a smattering of various case studies.
A.I.C.C.A. stands for Artificially Intelligent Critical Canine. It’s “a robotic dog able to explore spaces such as galleries, museums or art fairs, then produce and defecate short texts on the works it encounters”. It's by Mario Klingeman.
AI
XRtists: supporting the implementation of immersive technologies. “AHRC and all four UK national arts development bodies want to commission a consortium to develop and deliver a new three-year creative research and development innovation programme, XRtists”.
A new book by Amanda Wasielewsk Explores How Art Historians Use AI. A review of Amanda Wasielewski's 'Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning'.
Gagosian gallery uses ChatGPT to write press release for latest Alex Israel show in Rome. "The artificial intelligence chat bot was credited with creating the text for Alex Israel's show in Rome". Perhaps the most notable thing about this is that it was credited.
The philistine war on AI art. “looking forward to the inevitable wave of renewed debate around the inane and empty question of whether this new variety of culture-embedded and technology-dependent activity ought to count as art. It’s like asking whether a hamburger can count as breakfast”.
Recreating the Mona Lisa with ChatGPT. Glorious.
Other
This is LEEDS 2023, ONLINE. From Sarah Mace, their Head of Experience Design. “Consider this an introduction, a peek behind the curtain backstage at LEEDS 2023 ONLINE”.
Digital Culture Award Winner case study: The Old Vic. “In total, 108,810 households watched an OLD VIC: IN CAMERA live performance from 94 countries, with the peak number of households watching one performance reaching 5,000 households”.
Membership without borders. Scottish Ballet's new free membership. "For the price of sharing an email address, individuals become Scottish Ballet members with benefits. Perks include access to dance classes, digital magazine subscriptions and invitations to online events".
Explore the Collections – our new Organisation Pages. The V&A on an update aimed at linking across their online collection through the creation of more than 14,000 new pages.
The Courtauld’s Digitisation Volunteer Project. How the gallery involved 2,000+ volunteers in cataloguing 60k+ negatives and 1m+ mounted photographs.
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