Cultural Digital #228
Newsletters, AI, what the internet should be all about, and more.
Hello
This week we have dancing plants, other newsletters to follow, a couple of things about strategy (always a popular click), and a list of delightful little internet projects. Tuck in and enjoy.
James Gerde does fun stuff with AI-driven style transfer videos (plus some other bells and whistles), featuring statues, veggies, and plants dancing away.
He’s also pretty open about his process if you want to learn more about this sort of thing. There’s a long interview with Civitai and a shorter interview with enigmatic_e.
Newsletters
Week Notes #1 (22-25 July). Emma Keith, the MD of Digital at the National Theatre, is doing 12 weeks of Week Notes.
Innovate Creatively is a newsletter that promises to be for "creative approaches to innovation and innovative approaches to creativity". From Ian Ravenscroft, who works across XR/immersive stuff with lots of cultural orgs.
More AI
Approaching AI at the National Library of Scotland. "The statement’s emphasis on “responsible adoption” aims to strike a balance between the risks and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence". From Rob Cawston, Director of Digital and Service Transformation.
Genrematic. Dr Craig Hamilton with an "end-to-end workflow created in R that uses the Chat GPT API to produce ~3,000 word essays about musical sub-genres".
Eggnog. Imagine if Netflix shows were all generated by AI. That’s kinda what this is. Yikes.
Other
'What is the museum of the future?' The National Gallery's forward-looking digital strategy. A feature featuring John Stack and Lawrence Chiles.
European Theatre Lab is "Europe’s first think tank devoted to researching a digital strategy for theatre".
Prado Museum Sticker Collection "Porque a veces las palabras no bastan". 30 stickers for iOS and Android showing some of their most well-known works.
It's showtime! Roblox is selling movie theater tickets for the Beetlejuice sequel. "The gaming platform has partnered with Warner Bros. and Fandango on [Beetlejuice] Escape the Afterlife, which features characters and scenes from the original movie and the upcoming film alongside a virtual box office selling actual tickets".
Tiny Awards. This is what the internet should be about. There’s loads of good stuff to discover in here.
And there we have it. Please pass this on and spread the word.
See you soon