Cultural Digital #183

Hello

This week we've got chat about the revenue repercussions of this online stuff, more virtual exhibitions stuff, zooming, and a few other bits and bobs.

The Rijksmuseum's Operation Night Watch recently released the most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch. For those who want to be able to see "individual brushstrokes and even particles of pigment".

Charging for the online version
Is the great streaming arts giveaway of 2020 coming to an end?

The Innovators: Tech leaders talk monetising virtual shows "Panellists discussed livestreaming, VR and the delicate subject of charging for online content during the latest IQ Focus session, The Innovators". Ft people from Dice, Sansar, Looped, MelodyVR, and Locomotion Entertainment.

Giving it away for free - why the performing arts risks making the same mistake newspapers did. "this shift must be navigated carefully, particularly by companies that began with an open-access model and now risk alienating audience members". Which hints at the question about which audiences orgs choose to embrace in order to keep afloat.

Lockdown drives digital boom at French museums—but where's the business model? "For bricks-and-mortar museums, however, there is no business model for digital expansion that would compensate for the loss of paying visitors. Charging for online content is not an option for now".

More virtual exhibitions and tours
Catch the Penguin at the Natural History Museum in London. Putting Google Street View to good use.

'Home' is how you do a virtual art show with aplomb. Exhibition attendees can 'walk' around and chat with other attendees while listening to sounds by London DJ Yemisul. Here's Martina Martian's 'Home'. It was made using Mozilla's Hubs.

YORB 2020 is shared virtual space built by some of the Researchers in Residence at ITP, at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. It's currently hosting their 2020 Spring Show.

Art UK launches Curations: what will you make of it? "A free digital tool allowing anyone anywhere to create an online exhibition".

Actually yes, people do want virtual museum tours. "Contrary to what you might have been told, lots of people are still searching online for virtual museums". I wrote this a couple of weeks back. Their relative popularity's carried on downwards since, but the point remains the same.

Miscellaneous
Mezzanine is an iOS app for logging your theatre visits and reviewing shows.

The PlayGround Festival Goes Digital! A festival of Zoom-related work, which may or may not tick off some of the examples on Selina Thompson's list of Post Pandemic #Work in Exeunt.

How to Make Your Virtual Jam Session Sound—and Look—Good. "You know those videos of musicians rocking out from their living rooms, laid out in a grid? Here's how they're made".

Remotely possible? Access to collections data during lockdown. From the Collections Trust "too many museums – including some of the biggest – are unable to give their remaining staff and volunteers remote access to the information they need in order to do any kind of collections-related work".

The Work of Art in the Age of the Internet "How will the internet transform the way that contemporary visual art is created?"

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Thanks for reading and take care.

Chris Unitt

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