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Motivating Usages of Virtual Reality in Cultural Heritage

Virtual reality, or VR, has quickly become a mainstay for exhibiting arts and cultural organizations. When looking at it as a concept, “VR has the potential to simulate imaginative and existing physical environments along with their processes. The simulations can be tuned to a highest level of multisensorial realism in order to affect users’ visual, […]

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Online Music Education for K-12 Group Settings

At the beginning of the pandemic, music educators had to reimagine how they were going to keep teaching our young musicians of tomorrow. With schools being closed and positive cases on the rise, students did not have access to their regular in-person offerings. How were they to keep learning, engaging, communicating, and socializing with their […]

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Three platforms that independent artists need to be utilizing in 2022

The old way of thinking about indie artists was that they had no choice but to figure out a way to make it on their own because no major label would sign them. They were too obscure, too weird, too niche, and they wouldn’t make any money. Nowadays however, independent artists have more power and […]

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AI and Big Data: How to use machine learning to know your audience?

Introduction We live in a world full of data. Data brings information, knowledge, and wisdom, as presented by the DIKW pyramids. Based on large sets of data, we can add value and enrich it through productive analysis, and finally, we can get wisdom. With technology developing, getting trends and insights from unorganized raw data becomes […]

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Recommendation Algorithms are Pervasive. Now They Need to Diversify.

Artificial intelligence in the arts is growing increasingly more complex. It’s 2022, and robots are co-creating art, NFTs are celebrating and confusing art consumers around the world, and at least 85% of Americans have smartphones that give immediate access to endless amounts of streaming content. This article specifically covers the recommendation algorithms built to support […]

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Seeking immortality through one’s art is passé. Why not just be immortal?

In April 2019, the Dalí Lives exhibit opened along with an AI recreation of Salvador Dalí: Dalí Lives is an advanced instance of a growing phenomenon with the potential to disrupt both the art world and technologically mediated inter personal relationships. Ghostbots (sometimes called Griefbots) are an impending challenge for post mortem privacy and the […]

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SPOTIFY’S ALGORITHM: HELPING OR HURTING?

The year is 1870, 7 years before the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Edison. As a musical artist, if you wanted to distribute your content to an audience, you did so through sheet music, either painstakingly copied by hand, or if you were lucky, replicated on some kind of a printing press. Music distribution […]

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Integrating NFC Technology in Performing Arts Organizations

“If you’re wearing your Disney MagicBand and you’ve made a reservation, a host will greet you at the drawbridge and already know your name—Welcome Mr. Tanner!…The hostess, on her modified iPhone, received a signal when the family was just a few paces away. Tanner family inbound! The kitchen also queued up: Two French onion soups, two roast beef […]

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So, you want to display digital art in your museum? Now what?

Museums ranging in all disciplines act as cultural hubs that narrate a story to their visitors. These spaces, and the people who curate the items that are found in these spaces, in many ways dictate the cultural identity of the respective area they exist in. The items acquired by museums often have great cultural significance […]