I'm not saying that those of us in cultural heritage should take advantage of the current moment by repackaging all our previously-deferred collections management/infrastructure/technical debt projects as "AI readiness." But I'm also not NOT saying that

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D's need top demand accountability. If the President can pardon, states must be able to prosecute.

A computer printout with text generated by Fluxus artist Alison Knowles

RIP Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, who brought computational poetry to gallery spaces in 1967 with A House of Dust. Here's a tribute, using data from the WCMA collection a-house-of-dust.netlify.app

The Truth About January 6th Today is the fourth anniversary of the attack on Congress and attempted coup of the United States government and the man who incited it will be sworn in as President of the United States later this month. On this dark da

The Truth About January 6th. Today is the 4th anniversary of the attack on Congress and the man who incited it will be sworn in as President later this month. On this dark day, it is important to remember what happened and why… [kottke.org]

Hey congrats! Brilliant

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

"On a hunch, I asked the V&A for the ultra-high-resolution scans that had been made of the painting’s surface. Within a few hours of opening those on my computer I found something completely unexpected..." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #musetech /via @kottke.org

The Mythmaking Apparatus of the US National Parks In quiet yet scrupulous detail, Designing Experience asks how the US National Park Service shapes the narratives it tells about this country and the lands it claims.

“given the prominence of [NPS] in US mythology, along with the fact that they received over 310M visits in 2022, and how often they are the sites of contested American history, as well as sacred places to Indigenous people, the question of how the NPS expresses and packages those layered realities…”

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Suse! Great to see you here too! Hope you're well

Heck, you should really just partner with your campus art museum to co-host the data science initiative. (I was *this close* to making that happen...🤩)

Yes! This is what I found too. We asked them to sort the art collection by pinkness (whatever that may mean) and they ended up learning that programming is subjective, full of assumptions, trial and error, personal decisions, false starts, improvisation...