Cultural Digital #233
Featuring digital-enhanced visits, funding announcements, Parky, and more.
Hello
The first CD of the new year has a lovely love song visualisation, space invaders, and one of those amusingly tortured acronyms that EU-funded projects seem to love so much. Happy new year.
Billion Dollar Arcade by BREAKFAST. You control classic arcade games by moving your body around, and the difficulty increases/decreases in response to real-time changes in the gaming industry’s stock market valuation.
“As a reflection on the convergence of art, technology, and cultural evolution, BREAKFAST created Billion Dollar Arcade to merge the humble origins of arcade games with their multi-billion-dollar status today”.
Digital as part of a visit
Holistic Visitor Journey Model: Combining Physical, Digital, and Emotional Engagement in Museums. The first public white paper of the Future Museum project.
How Online Transaction Fees Impact Value Perceptions for Cultural Organizations. Colleen Dillenschieder with “data concerning visitor tolerance for online transaction fees – including the average amount organizations can risk charging”.
JourneyMaker. From the Art Institute of Chicago. "Choose from eight different story lines to create a personalized family museum tour".
Google Arts & Culture: 4 AI experiments using voice models to help you learn and explore. "These early experimental ideas are a first step into looking at how Google AI voice models could help us explore and interact with culture in new ways". The mice are cute. Interesting that they say they’re looking to roll out Talking Tours further.
Funding
Bloomberg - Digital Accelerator. They've announced the latest participants in the programme - another 200 organisations in the US and UK.
The Space Launches Digital Spaces in Libraries Programme “an array of digital experiences in libraries, ranging from awe-inspiring VR showcases and hands-on immersive filmmaking community masterclasses to funding opportunities for creating new digital content”.
ESHCC leads EXCENTRIC project for Digital Advancement in Arts and Culture. €3.5 over 3 years for developing collaborative data practices to "empower organizations in the sector to adopt data-driven innovations in areas such as programming, pricing, and audience engagement".
Measuring the economic value of digital culture - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre. A case study applying a contingent valuation survey (estimating willingness to pay, to you and me) to Art UK.
Other
Is the love song dying? The folks at The Pudding are consistently great. This is another entertaining data dive from them.
MCN 2024: Schedule. Lots of the sessions from last year’s conference now have slides uploaded in their descriptions here.
ArtBase Redesign Documentation. These reports, data models, prototypes, and a really full bibliography are part of researcher/designer Lozana Rossenova’s PhD thesis, looking at developing a new interface for Rhizome’s archive of born-digital artworks.
AI Interviewing: The Michael Parkinson Podcast with Jason Derulo. This was previewed a while back and has turned out to be… as expected. Funnily enough, while the interview itself is fine for what it is, the discussion amongst the (real) production team shows up that’s lacking in this experiment. Assuming those are real people. Now that’d be a twist.
Last chance: if you (or someone you know) look after a Google Ad Grant for a cultural organisation then please take part in this benchmark/study. It’s really quick, there are incentives and, (I’ve seen the initial results) it looks like it’ll be useful.
Thanks for reading and I’ll be back with more soon.
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