My new report offers practical insights and honest reflections on developing Responsible AI Policy and Practice @artscouncilengland.bsky.social .... no shiny hype, just some real lessons learned along the way. @braiduk.bsky.social
Hi! As an experiment, I've added a couple "pay what you can" slots for advising sessions. You might use these to:
- Talk through a creative project for sense-checking or figuring out how to break it into milestones
- Discuss outreach for your project/company
-Ask "pick your brain"-type questions
Siobhán McSweeney has been announced as the host of The Traitors Ireland.
I'm excited for AI to take Christmas off .... oh wait.....look the Open Consultation on AI and Copyright in the Creative Industries... has just launched... 🎄👩💻🫣
SXSW Panel Picker 'keyword search' can't seem to find one of my sessions - but if you'd like to vote for the 'The Art of Responsible AI' MeetUp with @braiduk.bsky.social you can search for '3122' and it comes up. Or my session CURATOR COMPUTER CREATOR search for '1266' 🫡✅
If PanelPicker is your thing - pop over and give us a vote - we'd love to bring together lots of fun and fabulous people - and SXSW seems like the perfect platform to do it!
I'm pretty sure my neighbour - who is a multiple houses landlord - has been using it when we have been discussing works on our leasehold building. The professionalisation of language from previous text exchanges is fascinating!
I'm so glad Scott is on Bluesky - one of my favourite twitter commentators - > brilliant as usual in this article!
This event was great! ... really good discussions.
I also did some work on Co-Working spaces in 2019 you can read that here .. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
You can read my report from 2012 here .. oonaghmurphy.com/wp-content/u...
Key Trend 01 Embracing contemporary culture to develop new audiences Collections provide us with a unique link to the past, but to be interesting to the average visitor, they must also provide a link to the present. Visitors want to know how a museum and its collection are relevant to them today. While in New York I came across a number of interesting events, programmes and exhibitions that demonstrated the contemporary relevance of museums and their collections, for this report I have selected three case studies which demonstrate that this approach requires vision rather than infinite resources.
Key Trend 2: The museum as a place for experimentation and innovation by visitors New Technologies are beginning to shift the way visitors are learning. A new model of collaborative learning is beginning to emerge. Whilst museum educators continue to teach visitors about the museum’s collections, increasingly museum visitors are providing museums themselves with new ways to view their collection. Whilst still a relatively new phenomena this trend marks a radical shift away from educator workshops with a defined, pre planned outcome.
Key Trend 3: Skill sharing and reflective practice Agile thinking and practices are somewhat at odds with museum culture, museums have reputation for being slow, often bureaucratic institutions. While I was in New York I was excited to see a range of digital education, marketing, collections and web teams tackle this legacy of bureaucracy by forming their own informal professional skill sharing networks. These new networks support museum technologists as they seek to create a new more agile and reflective environment that is conducive to and facilitates the development of emerging practice. These networks can be divided into three categories, informal events, conferences and social networks.
Key Trend 4: The museum as an innovative, agile, mission lead institution It was clear that museums in New York are invested in the future. The old argument ‘if we put everything online people won’t visit’ has been blown out of the water and many museums in New York now recognise that to succeed now and in the future they must develop a culture of research and development that responds to, challenges and works with contemporary culture and technological advancements. It was interesting to see how museums in New York are beginning to recognise that throwing money at singular digital projects is not enough. Instead it was evident that a number of key international museums have begun to see digital technologies and research and development as a key strategic priority and as such are creating departments staffed with people from a range of backgrounds and skill sets to work with the museum as a whole. This strategic approach of creating departments tasked with R&D, emerging technologies, and creating sustainable practices, demonstrates an interesting human resource approach to joined up thinking that will allow museums to use their historical and contemporary collections in a way that is relevant and engaging to visitors both today and tomorrow.
I wrote a lot about the contemporary purpose of museums, libraries and archives in my PhD, and my visit to Oslo last week made me think back to the work that was happening in New York when I spent a summer there in 2012. It's not digital that's interesting, it's how digital shapes society ...
Picture of a stage in the middle of the library, set up for a gig, with people sitting reading.
Sewing station at the library
Tshirt printing station at the library
floor plan of the library
Deichman Bjørvika (Oslo Public Library) is a kind of scandi utopia of what a public commons can be. Giant makerspace, soft play, cinema rooms, music studios. Buzzing with all generations, making, learning, sharing space and ideas www.dezeen.com/2020/07/02/d...
Great insights, especially in the article:
"Digital art work and AI: a new paradigm for work in the contemporary art sector in China"
Artistic practices are changing - the artisanal labour is still there, it is just taking a different shape.
Very exciting - congrats!
I made a starter pack but it made me tense because all taxonomies are political and no, I absolutely did not overthink this.
Also! It is really hard to find people in your graph who have fewer followers. Bluesky should let you sort the list with least followers first.
go.bsky.app/VFxSES6
And when he was told the sale price, he began to cry.
“I am a poor man,” Mr. Alam, 74, said, his voice breaking. “I have never had this kind of money; I have never seen this kind of money.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/n...
Sophie Frost and Lauren Vargas on Cultural Work, Wellbeing and AI - fed into a brilliant conversation this week about AI and ethical approaches to data labelling in museums - hope you find them as useful as I did! - still a few more articles to be come. www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/eur...
We haven't really shared articles, as were planning to do a socials blitz when they are all published. But two articles have already been used to shape important conversations around policy and practice. Hannah Andrews and Aurora Hawrcroft on SIC Codes www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/eur...
I'm currently editing a special issue on 'Artificial Intelligence: Cultural Policy, Management, Education, and Research' we are publishing as we go - with editorial coming out in new year www.frontierspartnerships.org/research-top...
Image shows the MUNCH museum building in front of big blue sky
Norway does good museums and dramatic skies. Was torn between looking at the art and the big skies yesterday afternoon. Apparently the building is designed to have that impact - framing the city and the art, and it hits the nail on the head.
Now this is tech for good that I can get behind - This 'AI Granny' Bores Scammers to Tears - brilliant example of what is possible when we think differently about a problem! uk.pcmag.com/security/155...
Image of a interactive billboard - with an image of Edvard Munch painting The Scream and a weather forecast saying it is -2 degrees
Arrived in Norway to work with MUNCH museum for a few days - nice to see Edvard moonlighting as a weather man at the airport!
