Colonialism has consistently been a force in the global purview, including the technological space. In recent years, the expansion of artificial intelligence has vastly increased corporations’ global influence. As the world’s technologies continue to advance and innovate, individuals must keep a watchful eye on the ways in which digital colonialism might repeat harmful practices from the past.
Due to the popularity and booming business of video games, Hollywood studios have capitalized on popular game titles by developing new content based off of their intellectual property (IP). This study sets out to better understand video game IP’s impact on film and television markets and what specific elements might impact an adaptation’s success.
Sustainability and AI were at the forefront this year at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Future of Museums Summit. What role will museums play in creating climate-friendly communities? And how can AI be used to maximize efficiency, increase accessibility, and deepen engagement? Read key conference takeaways from Xueer Ho and Dr. Brett Ashley Crawford.
An overemphasis on data-driven work within the nonprofit sector has been shown to result in cycles of disempowerment, driven by third-party data demands of funding bodies.. This compounds due to the many market orientations nonprofits need to adopt, particularly prevalent among the arts. A key to navigating these markets and funder requirements lies in identifying a specific data culture best fit for your organization and investing in resources and training in order to achieve that framework sustainably.
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.
Conflux, the annual art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space, is now accepting session proposals. The 2008 festival takes place September 11-14, 2008, in New York City.
Find out how to submit a proposal to participate in the festival. The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2008.
Josh Futrell and I are sitting in a Web usability workshop at Technology in the Arts: Canada at the moment, and I thought I'd share some notes from the session. The workshop is being led by Robert Barlow-Busch, director of product design at Primal Fusion, a semantic web startup in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Robert's overriding thought about usability testing is quite simple but very important: "Observe people using your Web site."
Josh looks please to be learning about usability.
Why conduct usability testing?
Aside from basic usability testing, Robert also just talked about projective exercises, which determine what type of emotions people attach to your organization. In the session's particular projective exercise, we were asked to imagine that a group of car manufacturer logos were members of a family. Who in the family would each of the logos represent? Robert's point was that this type of activity is more engaging than simply asking, "What do you think about Ford, Chrysler or Volvo?"
By the way, the entire group agreed that Ford was the drunk uncle. Sorry, Ford.
How does this translate to the arts field? An example that Robert presented was for an arts organization to use this type of activity to test how people view the organization's logo in comparison to the logos of other available activities (cinema, zoo, arcade, video games, Netflix, etc.).
Other resources:
The full set of slides from Robert's workshop will be available soon at TechnologyInTheArts.ca.
Everything is ready for tomorrow's conference. Brad starts off the conference with his podcasting workshop in the morning; Josh teaches an afternoon session on content management systems; and I bounce around throughout the day to make sure session leaders have everything they need.
If you are not able to join us in person, perhaps you can attend a virtual panel session in Second Life.
The image above shows the set for Saturday's panel being held in Second Life on "Virtual Concerts in the Park" which you can attend in Second Life on Saturday at 8:00AM SLT (Second Life Time = Pacific Time) by going to this SLURL - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sea%20Turtle%20Island/46/26/22/ - which will take you to the telehub behind the amphitheatre. Hope to see you there!
Technology in the Arts bloggers David Dombrosky, Brad Stephenson, and I are packing up to go to our sister conference, Technology in the Arts: Canada, hosted by the Centre for Cultural Management at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. We're flying out tomorrow for the Friday-Saturday conference. I'll be giving a presentation on navigating the murky waters of CMS selection in a session called Content Management Systems: Would You? Could You? Should You? The simile in my presentation that I'm most proud of myself for writing? "Open Source Software (OSS) is free like a piano listed in the classifieds is free: Free grand piano. Needs tuned and refinished. You haul."
Brad's delivering his hands-on session Attack of the Pod People: Engaging Your Audience with Audio Podcasts. He's currently trying to figure out how to get 50 pairs of headphones into Canada without breaking them or causing him to be pulled aside at any security checkpoints.
If you're going to be at the conference, be sure to stop us and say hello. If you're not, no worries. We'll be posting thoughts and musings about what we learn from our friendly neighbors to the north during and after the conference. Plus, there's the U.S. conference coming up on October 9-11, 2008, in Pittsburgh.
Want to be one of the cool kids? Sure you do. Who doesn't? The Center for Arts Management and Technology is currently offering sponsorship opportunities for its 2008 Technology in the Arts Conference, scheduled for Oct. 9-11 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Be almost as cool as this guy.
Some additional sponsorship notes:
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Come on... everyone's doing it.
(Image in this post licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy of ninjapoodles' Flickr photostream.)
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CAMT team members will attend Museums and the Web 2008 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 9-12, 2008. The annual conference explores "the on-line presentation of cultural, scientific and heritage content across institutions and around the world." If you are planning to attend MW '08, please email CAMT, as we'd love to connect with you. |
Today kicked off the 2008 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. On my way toward downtown, I took this photo of Jackson Square on my cell phone.
I spent about three hours in the Science Fair (normally called an "exhibit hall" at other conferences) absorbing as much as I possible could about the various technology product and service providers who work with nonprofit organizations. I met some people doing really wonderful work, and I hope to introduce them to you as sponsors for our 2008 Technology in the Arts Conference in October! Click here for a list of companies in residence at this year's Science Fair.
After the Science Fair, I went to dinner with my fellow CAMT teammates Haebin and Guillermo, who wanted to find a place to get seafood and alligator. We ended up at the Cajun Cabin on Bourbon Street. Check out Haebin playing the spoons with the restaurants cajun/zydeco band!
After dinner, we ventured further into the wilds of the French Quarter. It turns out the Haebin has an fun-loving inner rock star who just had to get up onstage at the Cat's Meow to do a karaoke rendition of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Cyndi Lauper would have been proud.
On my walk back to the hotel, I passed an interesting gallery on Royal Street and took a photo of this large scale facial sculpture.
Day One - Thumbs up for me.
2008 Nonprofit Technology ConferenceBuilding Community: Connections Around the Globe and Around the Corner March 19-21 New Orleans, LA
2008 Museums & the Web Conference April 9-12 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Brad and I are in Toronto working with our colleagues in the Great North on developing the content for the Technology in the Arts - Canada conference for May 9 & 10 in Waterloo. During a few moments yesterday when I hit the streets with my Visa (aka shopping), Teresa Hollingsworth from the Southern Arts Federation called me to give me her celebrity sightings report from the Sundance Film Festival. Once my petty jealousy cooled down, I wondered what interesting intersections of art and technology were taking place at Sundance this year. Here's what I've learned:
Okay, now I am more jealous. Next year, Teresa definitely has to take me with her to Park City!
