Cultural Digital

Hello

This week there's some interesting streaming stuff, there are some new marketplaces for creative stuff, and there's a game that I'll probably never play but it's called Animal Crossing and fun things are happening there.

But first, you're probably crying out for some generative poetry right about now.

Quite honestly, this confused me a bit, but that didn't stop me liking it. If We Were Allowed To Visit is an anthology of poems by Gemma Mahadeo rendered by Ian MacLarty. "As you move through the game's environment, the poems are rearranged into the shapes of the objects they're about, each frame becoming a new generative poem".

Streaming
Visualised #3: National Theatre at Home. This is something I've written. We took some data from the YouTube premiere broadcast of One Man, Two Guvnors to see what we could learn about viewers, donations, and comments.

girl, pen: Immersion, Convention, Assassination: Thoughts on NT Live and The Bridge Theatre's Julius Caesar Broadcast. From Beth Sharrock: "this review does little to comment on the production itself, instead focusing on its mediation through live broadcasting".

How Andrea Bocelli’s Live-Stream Became an Unexpected Blockbuster. Currently at 38 million views. Those are some big numbers. The Phantom of the Opera did 12m in 48 hours too.

What Amazon are doing
One Theater Tries an Alternative to Cancellation: An All-Audio Season. "Bobby Cannavale, Carla Gugino and Audra McDonald will still perform for the Williamstown Theater Festival this summer, but their shows will be on Audible, not onstage".

SXSW partners with Amazon to put its film festival online.

Creative marketplaces
hireartists: "Hire accomplished, dedicated practitioners from across the arts to share their knowledge or to help with both creative and your every day..."

Creative Skills: "This marketplace is for creatives affected by COVID-19. To help them share their skills with anyone, anywhere".

Pair Up: "a place for creatives to find and offer their time to others with the goal of sharing, learning and problem solving with each other".

Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (cultural events) with Marie Foulston "Marie explains how she came to host one of the Now Play This at Home events in Animal Crossing, and describes some of the other cultural events she’s seen take place".

Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ museum toured on Twitch by real aquarium staff. A collaboration between Chicago’s Field Museum and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Miscellaneous
National Lottery Heritage Fund DASH Survey. DASH stands for 'Digital Attitudes and Skills for Heritage' and if you're a heritage org then this is for you. The Heritage Fund are going to use this to "inform its digital skills planning, and let you know about the activities and resources that it is providing".

Bristol Arts Channel. "Bristol Old Vic is proud to be working with The Space and sister venues Colston Hall, Watershed and others to explore an online channel for Bristol – to amplify and share the rich variety of art, culture and stories found across the city".

The online Museum of Multiplayer Art. I mentioned LIKELIKE last week. This is "a new wing of LIKELIKE devoted to online multiplayer art".

The Royal Court has gone on-line. Is this a gimmick or the start of a revolution? From 1995. "The site consists of several pages of text and pictures that are displayed when you visit it using a computer connected to a telephone line". 25 years on, it's hard to tell which bits of this diary piece are meant to be wry observations or straight descriptions.

Jobs

There are digital-related jobs available at Tate and, well that's still the only one right now.

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Thanks for reading. Please share things with others, and be safe.

Chris Unitt

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