October 30, 2024

Accessibility, Artificial Intelligence, museums

Staff Researcher

Envisioning the Future of Museum Accessibility ...

With AI’s ability to automatically produce content and process complicated datasets with high accuracy, museums worldwide are exploring ways in which this innovative technology can help them better achieve their missions and advance accessibility efforts. Through case studies, learn about three applications of this technology: content digitalization, language accessibility, and visual description.

October 29, 2024

Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy, News & Announcements

Ian Hawthorne

October News: New Policies and Possibilities ...

October was filled with new debates on AI policies, a halt to one of the most significant AI safety bills in the United States, and a host of new AI developments in video, music, and even podcasts.

October 23, 2024

Data, Fundraising, Marketing

Ian Hawthorne

Data Cultures Part I: The Many Markets of Arts ...

Arts and cultural nonprofits often operate in multiple markets for earned and contributed revenue. With increasing attention on data-driven decision making, effective market orientation often depends on effective data use. This fundamental collection, transmission, use, and interpretation of data within an organization collectively contributes to what can be considered an organization’s data culture.

October 8, 2024

Advocacy, Community Building, Public Policy

Ian Hawthorne

Democracy on Display: The Dynamic Role of Art ...

Museums have increasingly begun to volunteer their spaces as polling places, acting as a democratic vehicle for their communities and adding to the greater fabric of America’s election infrastructure. In doing so, they can support local democratic processes and prove to their communities that they are not unbreachable temples for the elite, but open platforms for the people.

October 1, 2024

Artificial Intelligence, entertainment, Film

Staff Researcher

Part I: A New Era of AI in the Entertainment ...

As exemplified by the Hollywood strikes of 2023, we find ourselves in a new era of Artificial Intelligence in film and television. While studios are looking to cut costs, performers seek job security, and consumers seek quality content. Through research conducted in collaboration with facial motion capture technology provider Faceware Technologies Inc., Master of Entertainment Industry Management students at Carnegie Mellon sought to gain insight on how AI-generated content will transform existing industries, including how this technology could affect employment in the entertainment industry, content development, budgets, contracts, legislation, and privacy rights.

open data

Gillian Kim

February 19, 2018

Data

Take Arts Programs to the Next Level with Open Data

Gillian Kim

February 19, 2018

Data

Open data is an underutilized opportunity for many non-profit organizations. But how do you access it and how can it help? Contributor Gillian walks through the ins and outs of this helpful source.

Sarah Weber

April 4, 2016

Data

Open Data and the Arts: What's Next?

Sarah Weber

April 4, 2016

Data

How can galleries, libraries, archives and museums create long-term value with open data? Can cultural institutions become leaders for social innovation by opening data? Open data advocates argue that yes, they can, but only if they are able to translate that data into useable knowledge. AMT Lab Contributor Sarah Weber investigates.