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Well, it's been a while since the last one of these, hasn't it? Unless you're a recent subscriber, in which case ignore that. I hope you're keeping well. Today we've got AI, Python, and a bunch of pieces about adapting to our rather odd times. Speaking of which…

Performing Arts and Digital Entrepreneurship is happening this Friday afternoon (25 Sept) and has been put together by Opera North. You can join "some of the sector’s leading cultural organisations and digital experts" (and me) to hear about how they're delivering digital projects and experiences. The topics look great, there are some excellent panellists, and it's free. Sign up here.

On with the show…

A couple of Twitter accounts that have caught my eye recently. Pixel Dailies features some fun pixel art, while Jurassic Park Updates is showing us how visitor attractions could be treating their social medias.

Adapting
Obstacles to developing digital-centric business models in the arts. Someone asked me about digital arts activity and business models and this was my (somewhat pessimistic) answer.

Rise of digital: how streaming filled the live performance gap. "Key figures in the digital theatre movement tell Tom Wicker about what the future holds for streaming services"

Viewing Art in the Time of COVID-19. Harriet Flavel gives us "an initiation into all things digital as galleries and artists accept the new norm".

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators. It's worth thinking about the implications of this for those that sit between artists and audiences (promoters, venues, festivals, etc).

Live Performances in Digital Times: an Overview. "This mapping explores how digital technologies are used at the different stages of the artistic process (creation, production, dissemination, archiving…) and to what aims (inspiration, audience engagement and development, marketing, sharing…)"

What can – and should - you charge digital audiences? "Together with The Audience Agency, Baker Richards have recently undertaken an analysis of the data gathered in Indigo’s After the Interval: Act 2, which surveyed over 130,000 UK regular arts attenders".

Python
How a major museum runs on Python. A tour of the technology at ACMI, including "our Internet-of-Things fleet and management tools, and XOS, the eXperience Operating System, which provides content and configuration to the devices".

The Python People Podcast - Creating A 'Data Culture' "In this episode, Christina Finlay (Director Data and Insight of the National Trust) discusses what it takes to create a 'Data Culture' within a business".

AI
ArtLensAI: Share Your View is "a reverse image search tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to match your images to artwork from the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection".

imgs.ai is "a fast, dataset-agnostic, deep visual search engine for digital art history based on neural network embeddings"

AI Storytelling Game May Expand Publishing’s Horizons. "Interactive storytelling took a quantum leap forward this year, as a video game called AI Dungeon has served more than 18.5 million customized text-based adventures to more than one million monthly active users"

Advancing Connections to Art with Open Access and AI "The panelists included Stefano Corazza from Adobe, Eva Kozanecka from Google AI, Serge Belongie from Cornell Tech, and contemporary artist Matthew Ritchie".

Digital Jobs

There are digital-related jobs going at the Institute of Conservation, Science Museum Group, and National Galleries Scotland.

Thanks as always for reading. Please do pass this on to others if you think they'd find is useful.

Chris Unitt

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