Apps & Mobile
All that Jazz: the SNJO digitally alive again!
SNJO: In the Hall of the Mountain King The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and their Artistic Director, the saxophonist Tommy Smith are widely recognized to be “world class” with an international reputation for the highest quality jazz and programming. In 2013, while performances soared with rapturous receptions to their Ellington and Rhapsody in Blue concerts…
White The App – Catherine Wheels and Hippotrix Case Study
In 2010 Catherine Wheels Theatre Company premièred a new show, called White, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. White is for children aged 2-4 and was one of the hits of that fringe festival. It has gone on to tour the world and now, four years later, it is still touring and, at the time of…
Radio Free Hebrides – supporting local culture through podcasting…
Radio Free Hebrides is a project by Hands On Studios, a small company supporting the audio arts, based on the Isle of Skye. In 2013/2014 we received an award from Amb:IT:ion Scotland to help to create a strong foundation of digital content, and help to grow our audience so that we could move forward, finding…
Augmented Reality Brochures: Manipulate Festival of Visual Theatre video showcase
One of the limitations around a paper marketing brochure is that that it can’t show or tell you how attending an event will feel. A more multisensory experience can though, and the Manipulate Festival of Visual Theatre, which shows innovative international theatre and film, have used an augmented reality (AR) platform called Layar to bring…
Video case study in digital development – Platform
Glasgow East Arts Company (Platform) explain the scoping and planning that they have achieved, following AmbITion Scotland support to undertake the AmbITion Approach to digital development. Their case study reflects on how the digital developments they’re planning will impact the organisation’s audience engagement with their communities, operations, business models and artistic services and output across…
Designing the Jupiter Artland app
Jupiter Artland has collaborated with Edinburgh Napier University to produce a brand new cutting edge app for iOS 7. Jupiter Artland is a 100 acre contemporary sculpture park just outside Edinburgh and was granted digital development funding from Amb:IT:on Scotland to develop digital interaction with its art collection.
Kneehigh theatre and the art of the app
A mobile app is a digital platform – like any other stage it should hold up your art, not work against it, say the Cornish company’s Charlotte Bond and Chloe Rickard in The Guardian Culture Professionals Network, reproduced with kind permission. Kneehigh tell stories. Based in Cornwall, we create theatre on both epic and tiny…
Five minute theatre, Timespan and Sadler’s Wells – all performing well online!
5pm 21.06.2011 – 5pm 22.06.2011: http://www.fiveminutetheatre.com – a virtual live theatre project powered by webcasting and standard Scottish bandwidth! Join the National Theatre Scotland’s 5th birthday celebrations, showing online 24 hours of live 5 minute pieces of theatre by anyone for everyone. Hannah’s other company, Envirodigital has been the technical consultants, and producers. To provide…
How to… Get to Grips with the Opportunities of Geolocative Technologies
How To…This guide is designed to provide ideas on harnessing ideas around geolocation for those who project manage or implement digital developments in cultural organisations. It will also provide an important element of the basis for any strategic vision on how mobile technology will be harnessed within the organisation.
So that was 2010 digital developments in the arts!
It’s that time of year again for Hannah Rudman to sum up the 2010 digital developments in the cultural sector. Generally, we’ve seen more audience participation online and in venue, and digital access to culture becoming a mainstream activity. Here’s my pick of the main developments in each art form: for more detail on what…
Contact Theatre asks you to #follow_me
Manchester’s Contact Theatre has a unique piece of interactive theatre starting this evening until Saturday. #follow_me as its hashtagged twitter name title implies is a show not just about social media but which uses social media.