Chris Unitt

It’s nice when someone articulates something (at least partly) that’s been dancing around the edge of your thoughts, so thanks to Pete Ashton who’s been thinking out loud about: the distinction, sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant, between those who primarily identify as a practitioner of a medium and

The other week I spoke at an Art of Digital London event at The Photographers’ Gallery. The topic was digital project management – not a sexy subject, and not one that usually gets discussed much. There was a good turnout though, so well done to the folks behind AoDL for going

First up, popularity contests for websites! Experian Hitwise’s Top 10 Awards for the most popular UK websites in various categories include: Entertainment – Arts: Guardian Culture, Tate, V&A, Royal Academy of Arts, National Gallery, Barbican, Easyart, Sky Arts, National Portrait Gallery, WorldGallery. Entertainment – Performing Arts: Ambassador Theatres, What’

A couple of weeks back I wrote that arts organisations don’t seem to be as interested in apps as some people may suspect they are. Turns out that’s not entirely the case. I recently came across an organisation that was being sold the idea of building a mobile

The other day I asked the great Twitter hive mind this question: Are there any arts orgs that talk about their development work or feature blog posts/updates from their development teams on their website? — Chris Unitt (@ChrisUnitt) October 8, 2012 I had to clarify what I meant by development

This is a quick ‘I told you so’ post in light of some of the contents of Film Forever, the BFI’s newly-released, 5-year strategy report. Particularly this bit (as reported by The Guardian): the BFI said it was committed to digitising 10,000 films by 2017, with experts and

Posting these a little later than usual. Ah well, let’s start with something pretty. Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau is: a surface made of thousands of LED illuminated by the contact of water. You can use a paintbrush, a water atomizer, your fingers or anything damp to sketch

The 20th century did a number on music technology. Radio made music transmittable. Cars made music mobile. Speakers made music big, and silicon chips made music small. But headphones might represent the most important inflection point in music history. From a piece called How Headphones Changed the World by Derek

Roughly a year ago I said I was going to put a little more effort into my blogging on this site. I’m pretty happy with how things have gone and, although there’s room for improvement, I’m going to keep things trundling along in the same vein for