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28th April 2012

Link reblogged from Arts Tech with 14 notes

Data Culture #2: The New Curation →

artstech:

Some interesting (if somewhat underdeveloped) ideas in this Guardian article from Patrick Hussey. I don’t know if we necessarily want to make art more “machine readable,” but certainly the metadata surrounding it. I wonder what museum data gurus like Seb Chan, Piotr Adamczyk and Mia Ridge would have to say about this…

From the article:

Imagine curation software that searched all the world’s art – now open, tagged, machine readable – and matched it to your life that very moment? Here are three ways automated curation might get interesting:

• Using realtime data streams like Facebook’s Timeline you could map art to your life. The Open Gov movement has called this ‘smart disclosure’ – why shouldn’t the arts disclose too, bypassing the baggage and injecting culture straight into people’s lives?

• When we Google events or names we often get served up different forms of data. You can ask Google for related images, news or maps. Wouldn’t it be great if Google created an algorithm that served up the most relevant pieces of art as well? You search Crimean War and you get all the paintings, poems and Sebastopol sketches in a distinct stream

• This tagging culture could help art become searchable by emotion or even life events: loneliness, love, marriage, bereavement. We could create apps that serve up helpful art relevant to what really matters in people’s lives – their emotional experience. This could be the cultural equivalent of the mental health app Buddy

-JK

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