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“Feed your kids The Arts” :: USA positioning culture as a nutritionally sound breakfast cereal.

Culture Hack Day #chd11 was an immense, challenging and innovative project to work on. It brought together key cultural organisations (including Crafts Council, UK Film Council, Culture Grid, National Maritime Museum, BBC Archive + more) and some wonderful developers who all gave their time for free. The challenge was to come up with new innovative ideas using open data from the culture sector. Its production was driven by Royal Opera House, with support from Wieden + Kennedy London, Google, Arts Council England & Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network.

Alongside the developers furiously hacking away over the weekend, we ran a series of talks, sparked off from the title “What if?” around open data. They can be viewed here - with some inspiring provocations from people such as Leila Johnston, who edits the Hackers! newspaper, Chris Thorpe from ArtFinder, Tom Armitage who works at BERG and Clare Reddington from iShed.

You can see a full list of the hacks that were developed here - a few highlights were When Should I Visit? by Dan W highlighting when the *least* busiest times for museums are; a Museum of Minecraft bringing digital archives into the online gaming world; mobile iterations of data searching making them more accesible to the general public including Stef’s Culture Grid apps; more whimsical haiku generators including Haiku Guardian & BBC Haiku Player; plus Pepys’ Shows by Matthew Somerville and Clare Lovell bringing Samuel Pepys’ pithy reviews of theatre to the masses.

Spot-on animation from David Shrigley to front the #Save the Arts campaign. Follow the campaign on twitter: @save_the_arts or sign the petition.

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.@artangel & @V_and_A Late feat the twitter typewriter @typertweet Friday 28 May 2010, 18.30–22.00, Admission free Dressing up, summery drinks in the garden, giant speed scrabble, crossword hunts, legendary Peachy Coochy presentations, DJs and films. Inspired by Artangel’s The Concise Dictionary of Dress now running at Blythe House, the V&A’s working store of its collections,the evening plays with ideas about the meaning of words, collections, dress and how we feel about what we wear…Typertweet, Grand Entrance Interact to make a live dictionary! Typertweet sets out to overcome the transience of online communication and make the actual message important again. The unique typewriter has been programmed to turn digital real-time messages from twitter into the printed word. Your tweets will become a crowd-sourced dictionary of new definitions of the words from The Concise Dictionary of Dress which are: ARMOURED, COMFORTABLE, CONFORMIST, CREASED, ESSENTIAL, FASHIONABLE, LOOSE, MEASURED, PLAIN, PRETENTIOUS, TIGHT. Add your own definition or usage of one of the words by simply sending a 140 character tweet to @typertweet and add the hashtag #vamlate at the end. For example: @typertweet PLAIN: without whipped cream, icing, cherries or chocolate sprinkles #vamlate Typertweet concept, hardware and electronics by Benjamin Tomlinson Twitter integration by Greg Reed Event concept  and management by Katy Beale

.@artangel & @V_and_A Late feat the twitter typewriter @typertweet

Friday 28 May 2010, 18.30–22.00, Admission free

Dressing up, summery drinks in the garden, giant speed scrabble, crossword hunts, legendary Peachy Coochy presentations, DJs and films. Inspired by Artangel’s The Concise Dictionary of Dress now running at Blythe House, the V&A’s working store of its collections,the evening plays with ideas about the meaning of words, collections, dress and how we feel about what we wear…

Typertweet, Grand Entrance
Interact to make a live dictionary! Typertweet sets out to overcome the transience of online communication and make the actual message important again. The unique typewriter has been programmed to turn digital real-time messages from twitter into the printed word. Your tweets will become a crowd-sourced dictionary of new definitions of the words from The Concise Dictionary of Dress which are: ARMOURED, COMFORTABLE, CONFORMIST, CREASED, ESSENTIAL, FASHIONABLE, LOOSE, MEASURED, PLAIN, PRETENTIOUS, TIGHT.

Add your own definition or usage of one of the words by simply sending a 140 character tweet to @typertweet and add the hashtag #vamlate at the end.

For example: @typertweet PLAIN: without whipped cream, icing, cherries or chocolate sprinkles #vamlate

Typertweet concept, hardware and electronics by Benjamin Tomlinson

Twitter integration by Greg Reed

Event concept  and management by Katy Beale

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My recent article in Arts Professional commenting on digital access in the arts, talking about Tate, Arnolfini, MuseumNext and Art of Digital, and how to set up an engaging and inclusive process to get arts organisations up to speed on the social web.

My recent article in Arts Professional commenting on digital access in the arts, talking about Tate, Arnolfini, MuseumNext and Art of Digital, and how to set up an engaging and inclusive process to get arts organisations up to speed on the social web.

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