I’m starting a new series of posts that that I’m calling Arts Analytics. I’ve chosen a group of 100 arts organisations and, on a regular basis, I’m going to use various digital metrics to see how those organisations compare against each other. For instance: * What percentage

Hands down the most fascinating thing I’ve come across online in the past month has been the New York Times’ multimedia feature, Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. I tend to steer clear of the ‘interactives’ spewed out by newspapers – the flashy stuff always seems to come at

Beyond The Curtain – How Digital Media is Reshaping Theatre [PDF] is a report that came out at the beginning of 2012, although I’ve only just come across it. It was released by Ballinran Enter­tain­ment, with Dig­i­tal Wiz­ards, the Cana­dian Actors Equity Asso­ci­

A couple of roughly related projects, both looking at how people move around in cultural contexts. The first one looks at how museum visitors find their way through collections. Andrew Oriani is a physicist and apparently knows a thing or two about statistical mechanics. While taking an art class: Andrew

Group of Minds, the arts and technology consultants over in Silicon Valley, have commissioned an update to their 2009 research into the mobile preferences of arts patrons. You can download the report from here. I’ve been looking at differences in mobile traffic, conversion rates and use cases lately so

Now here’s a thing: The Arts Holland linked open data platform gives developers free access to a rich interconnected collection of data on tourism and culture, allowing them to build smart innovative applications to serve todays cultural tourists. Arts / digital links The slides from this presentation warmed the cockles

On Friday I was at The Photographer’s Gallery for another Art of Digital London meet-up, this time discussing opportunities of video networks and the various approaches arts organisations might take. Here are a few notes… Paul Gerhardt Paul runs a consultancy called Archives for Creativity and he talked about

I finally got round to listening to James Burke’s excellent talk by from dConstruct. Definitely give that a listen, it’s the most thought-provoking thing I’ve listened to in a while and is entertaining too. Not that you’d know that from the title and description. I usually