case study: artfinder - building digital capacity for the arts
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Building digital capacity for the arts - seminar 1 Case study: ArtFinder, Chris Thorpe, exploring the recently launched ArtFinder website and the two new associated Apps being launched in April 2011. Delegates will hear about the processes involved in creating an arts-related App, and will be given an insight into technical and rights issues For more information visit http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/digitalcapacityTRANSCRIPT
Distractions andSpace and TimeChris ThorpeTechnologist @jaggeree
Recommendations
Apps
Audioguides+
We need to see through the walls of museums...
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/JAGGEREE/
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/HUMAIN/
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/SHANEGLOBAL/
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/MPIE/
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/JORDAN-SIM/
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/SRBOISVERT/
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/JUSTINMASTERSON/
HTTP://BERGLONDON.COM/PROJECTS/HAT/
Bend services around the user
HTTP://OWLSNEARYOU.COM/
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/JAGGEREE/
Before we begin. Test everything on a real device.Yourself.
And. Play with lots of devices and get used to them.
Time and Space
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/CHRISSCHOENBOHM/
Distraction
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/AYANAMI_NO3/
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/CASS_SCULPTURE/
Size
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/WALLYG/
Context
Expendibility
Finishability
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/CASS_SCULPTURE/
Size
J.B.S. Haldane
The most obvious differences between different animals are differences of size, but for some reason the zoologists have paid singularly little attention to them. In a large textbook of zoology before me I find no indication that the eagle is larger than the sparrow, or the hippopotamus bigger than the hare, though some grudging admissions are made in the case of the mouse and the whale. But yet it is easy to show that a hare could not be as large as a hippopotamus, or a whale as small as a herring. For every type of animal there is a most convenient size, and a large change in size inevitably carries with it a change of form.
Am I a small phone?Am I a large phone?Am I a small tablet?Am I a large tablet?Am I 4x3 or 16x9?
Am I an interactive screen?
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/WALLYG/
Context
Am I being held with one hand?Am I being held with two hands?
Is it easier if I’m portrait or landscape?Am I on my dock?
Am I on someone’s lap?Am I on a table?
Expendibility
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/BAS68/
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/BAS68/
Approaching peak Work/Life/Phone/Being Balance
How long will I last?
Finishability
“The New York Times weekend edition is the end of level boss of newspapers, there is almost no
chance of vanquishing it unless you play in two player co-operative mode”
And because you can possibly finish newspaper, you read everything and then curation and juxtaposition
combine to yield serendipity
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/carbonnyc/
Offline ➔ Online ➔ Offline ➔ Online (repeat until fade)
Distraction*
Time and Space*
Mission Control** actual figures are total guestimates, we’ll let you know when we know them
Time and Space
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/CHRISSCHOENBOHM/
Where am I?When am I?
What is here?What should I be doing?
What can I do now and here?Where is everybody?
Finding out about art around you
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/JAGGEREE/
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/STUNNED/
Caution, unscientific ethnographic analysis ahead*
*small sample set
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/HOBER/
Snap - Camera operation screens nice animation, colours from the image results, with possible alternatives left/right
Snap - Camera operation screens nice animation, colours from the image results, with possible alternatives left/right
Image recognition
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/JUSTINMASTERSON/
Look at art not screens
Technology should get out of the way.
How to do zoom in gallery apps...
Walk towards the painting.
Mission Control
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/DELTAMIKE/
Well I like that, more please.Where can I find X?
I didn’t know about Y, but my friend likes them.
Prado
Reine Sofia
Thyssen-Bornemisza
Distraction
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/AYANAMI_NO3/
I’m bored, distract me.I’m stuck here, distract me.
I want some fun, distract me.
The greatest serendipity machine ever
Radio isn’t a continuous stream
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/carbonnyc/
It’s short highly curated bursts
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/carbonnyc/
Which start, and most importantly finish
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/carbonnyc/
Artfinder Platform targets multiple devices, formats and app stores
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Art in White Cubes
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/SONGZHEN/
Don’t reinvent wheels
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/LOOP_OH/
Make wheel factories
Monet
HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/WALLYG/
Waterlillies (1916)
PicassoPicasso
Guernica (1937)
Hirst
Shark
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1992)
Gormley
Ecce Homo
Event Horizon (2010)
El Salahi
The Inevitable (1984-1985)
Fountain
Expendibility
You are not the only thing in a person’s life
Bring them joy, and wonder so they’ll want you in it for a while.