Mobile culture and the Magic Tate Ball
Source – Culture professionals network: Culture professionals blog | guardian.co.uk The best mobile projects build on genuine collaboration between content owners and digital developers, says Ben...
View ArticleArts Digital R&D Podcast 2: using mobile technology and gaming to reach new...
In this podcast studio guests dissect the future of mobile from near field communication (NFC) technology to Google’s Project Glass and take in the latest advances in augmented reality browsers along...
View ArticleAmbITion Scotland webcasting the Turing Festival
On Friday 24 August, 2012, a group of the world’s digital technology leaders will converge on Edinburgh to debate and discuss their latest innovations. Tune in to the AmbITion Scotland’s webcast for a...
View ArticleTuring Festival: Conference 2012
Conference organisers and AmbITion Scotland partners, Interactive Scotland once again hosted a scintillating day at Edinburgh’s Turing Festival. The Turing Festival brings the digital industries and...
View ArticleAutumn surgeries with Interface
This September organisations from the world of dance, literature, music and visual art attended to find out how a partnership with academia could help them explore a new idea or get help solving a...
View ArticleDigital R&D podcast: education & learning
#artsdigital podcast from Arts Council England 5: Dave Patten, Head of New Media, Science Museum; Max Whitby, Co-Founder and CEO of Touchpress; and Kirsten Campbell-Howes, Director of Learning, at...
View ArticleMuseum Explorer: new mobile app from National Museums Scotland
I can’t wait to take my next set of visitors to the National Museum of Scotland – yes because its revamp has created a fabulously immersive beautiful space and its interactive exhibits are engaging to...
View ArticleDickens Mobile App focusses on locations, themes and characters: watch!
Watch the latest video update from the Arts Council England/NESTA Digital R&D pilot project, ‘London Dickens Trail’ and learn from Exhibition Road Cultural Group and the Charles Dickens Museum, who...
View ArticleKneehigh 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...
View ArticleHow to… understand and measure digital engagement – 2013 report and tools...
Thanks to the brilliant Culture24 for sharing the outcomes and insights and tools of their latest 2013 action research project. Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs!) worked together to...
View ArticleA Paperless Festival at Dance Base
Having recently moved our main year-round bookings system into the cloud we took the decision to move onto VIA by Red61 for our festival ticketing as this would improve efficiency, remove allocation...
View ArticleDesigning 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...
View ArticleVideo 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...
View ArticleHorizon Report for Museums
This is a great read for discovering trends that impact museums (and other heritage institutions) now, with predictions for what’s just over the horizon, and will become mainstream in the next couple...
View ArticleAugmented Reality Brochures: Manipulate Festival of Visual Theatre video...
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...
View ArticleRadio 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...
View ArticleWhite 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. Here’s a 60 second trailer of the show: White is for children aged 2-4 and was one of the...
View ArticleAll 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...
View ArticleWhat the Nesta Digital R&D Fund for Scotland awardees learnt
This report reflects, through written case studies, on the learnings of the 10 Nesta Digital R&D Fund for Scotland awardees. The projects were testing new digital initiatives which would: diversify...
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