Hello

It’s always nice to be able to include links to some funding announcements. I like flicking through the various projects and thinking about all the activity that’s kicking off as a result.

Elsewhere, I’ve written a thing about digital projects big and small, I learned that The Whitney’s website does a fun thing, and ticketing bots are kinda interesting.

Learning Light is “an interactive studio where you can get creative with lighting design, with help from LuxBot, your personal assistant powered by Google AI”.

Funding

Over 80 UK Projects Receive Nearly £1.2m in First Funding Round. Via Immersive Arts, a scheme "supporting artists of all backgrounds and experience to work with immersive technologies".

Awarded projects submitted as part of the 2024 call for proposals. Digital Museums Canada has announced over $2 million for 18 new online projects.

AI

Interview: National Gallery of Art (DC)'s Chief Information Officer, Rob Stein. Over on Cultural Content, Georgina chats to Rob about “leadership in the sector around tech and AI, the principles of good leadership and change-making around tech and culture.”

AI, Authenticity, & the Future of 3D Cultural Heritage. Thomas Flynn on "the complexities of integrating genuine cultural assets into environments often dominated by AI-generated lookalikes".

AI and Cultural Heritage Research Resources. "This site is intended to keep track of developments in the application of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning to cultural heritage data".

Online collections

An authentic Magna Carta has been discovered in Harvard's archives. "David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was searching through the digital archives of the Harvard Law Library when he clicked on a document that would become the biggest discovery of his career".

The Courtauld completes major project to digitise the Witt Library. Two million images that were stored in "over 19,000 boxes and occupying 1.4 kilometres of shelf space". Blimey.

Other

A pivotal year for digital transformation at the BFI. Neil Williams on some ambitious plans.

Mapping digital project types in the arts and culture sector. “Then one day it dawned on me that people, for whatever reason, were just calling fairly run-of-the-mill projects 'transformations'“ I wrote this because sometimes it helps to do your thinking out loud.

Humans vs Humans: What do the bots really want? If you don't know how ticket-buying bots work, this is a fascinating look behind the curtain.

On the Hour. "To see the current project, be anywhere on this website on the hour". I'd not heard of this until I read this interview with Colin Brooks, The Whitney's Head of Digital Development.

National Trust London collaborate with Glitch to inspire new wave of urban gardeners.

Thanks for reading. Go on, forward this on to someone else. What’s the worst that could happen?

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Chris Unitt