Cultural Digital #222
Featuring fancy 3D stuff, thoughts on digital leadership, partnerships with social media platforms, and more.
Hello
I’m still working through a bit of a backlog of things I came across a while ago, while sprinkling in plenty that’s hot off the presses. This week there’s a game, some DJing, an Iron Age roundhouse on tour… lots of good stuff.
The Forever Labyrinth is "an art-filled quest through time and space" from Google Arts & Culture.
3D heritage
Envisioning the Past with Realtime 3D. A demo of a virtual museum display using a holographic screen that combines “motion parallax, 6DoF positional trackers, and active shutter stereo glasses”.
Pair of Guardian Figures (Zuishin) Japan. Animated 3D views have been added to some collection pages on the Cleveland Museum of Art website. It’s very nicely done (although I might've laughed when the heads lifted off).
The Spatial Heritage Review. Thomas Flynn knows this stuff and has a newsletter so you can know about it too.
I’ve also been enjoying what he’s doing with his scan of an Iron Age roundhouse. He’s turned into Cesium Story, taken it to the beach (using AR), and made a nice video of it through the seasons using Twinmotion. Amazing what you can do.
Digital leadership
Words from Substrakt’s Digital Works, Leeds, April 2024. ACMI's Seb Chan with some thoughts that came out of taking part in a senior-level mentoring programme. "These one on one sessions led me to a shorthand way of describing the nature of the challenge in the arts and cultural sector as one of ‘digital imagination’."
Classical music’s unspoken problem: digital illiteracy in leadership. From David Taylor.
Social partners
Snapchat maker to install first AR mirrors in a U.S. museum in S.F. “The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are collaborating with the technology company behind Snapchat to introduce the first interactive augmented reality mirrors in a U.S. museum”.
Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto. "Pinterest partners with London's Victoria and Albert Museum to bring the momentous 'Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto' exhibition to life digitally".
Other
The Webby Awards 2024 - Top Art & Culture. Some fancy stuff to gawp at.
Wannabe is a newsletter in Italian which, if Google Translate is to be trusted, is "A concentration of tasty news between culture & digital & communication, churned out especially for you". It’s another good place for links to interesting things.
A-Trak On Scratching Techniques, Looping, Hot Cues & More. I’m always fascinated by how DJs have steadily incorporated more and more tech into what they do.
National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT. They don’t want the risk of private, internal stuff to be pulled into the training data in case it pops out somewhere.
How ODEON drives growth with an AI-powered search strategy. It’s a PR-y puff piece of a case study, but not a bad one.
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