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/digitalcapacity

1. Distractions and
Space and Time
Chris Thorpe
Technologist
@jaggeree

2. Recommendations

3. Apps

4. Audioguides+

5. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
JAGGEREE/
We need to see through the
walls of museums...

6. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
HUMAIN/

7. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
SHANEGLOBAL/

8. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
MPIE/

9. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
JORDAN-SIM/

11. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
SRBOISVERT/

12. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
JUSTINMASTERSON/

14. HTTP://BERGLONDON.COM/PROJECTS/
HAT/
Bend services around the user

15. HTTP://OWLSNEARYOU.
COM/

16. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
JAGGEREE/

17. Before we begin. Test everything on a real device.
Yourself.

18. And. Play with lots of devices and get used to them.

20. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
CHRISSCHOENBOHM/
Time and Space

21. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
AYANAMI_NO3/
Distraction

22. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
CASS_SCULPTURE/
Size

23. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/WALLYG/
Context

24. Expendibility

25. Finishability

26. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
CASS_SCULPTURE/
Size

27. J.B.S. Haldane

28. 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.

29. 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?

30. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/WALLYG/
Context

31. 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?

32. Expendibility

33. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/BAS68/

34. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/BAS68/
Approaching peak Work/Life/Phone/Being Balance

35. How long will I last?

37. Finishability

38. “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”

39. And because you can possibly finish newspaper, you
read everything and then curation and juxtaposition
combine to yield serendipity

40. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
carbonnyc/

41. Offline ➔ Online ➔ Offline ➔ Online (repeat until fade)

42. Time and Space*
Distraction*
Mission Control*
* actual figures are total guestimates, we’ll let you know when we know them

43. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
CHRISSCHOENBOHM/
Time and Space

44. Where am I?
When am I?
What is here?
What should I be doing?
What can I do now and here?
Where is everybody?

46. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
JAGGEREE/
Finding out about art around you

48. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/STUNNED/

50. Caution, unscientific
ethnographic analysis
ahead*
*small sample set

56. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/HOBER/

57. image results, with possible alternatives left/right

58. Image recognition

59. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
JUSTINMASTERSON/
Look at art not screens

60. Technology should
get out of the way.

61. How to do zoom in gallery apps...

62. Walk towards the painting.

63. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
DELTAMIKE/
Mission Control

64. Well I like that, more please.
Where can I find X?
I didn’t know about Y, but my friend likes them.

72. Thyssen-Bornemisza
Prado
Reine Sofia

73. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
AYANAMI_NO3/
Distraction

74. I’m bored, distract me.
I’m stuck here, distract me.
I want some fun, distract me.

79. The greatest serendipity machine ever

80. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
carbonnyc/
Radio isn’t a continuous stream

81. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
carbonnyc/
It’s short highly curated bursts

82. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
carbonnyc/
Which start, and most importantly finish

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85. Art in White Cubes

92. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/
SONGZHEN/
Don’t reinvent wheels

93. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/LOOP_OH/
Make wheel factories

106. Monet

107. HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/WALLYG/
Waterlillies (1916)

108. Picasso
Picasso

109. Guernica (1937)

110. Hirst

111. Shark
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
(1992)

112. Gormley

113. Ecce Homo
Event Horizon (2010)

114. El Salahi

115. The Inevitable
(1984-1985)

116. Fountain

121. Expendibility

122. 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.