Hannah Rudman's Blog (11)

National Digital Development in the Arts network launched - come join!

If you're a cultural organisation, or interested in working with cultural and arts organisations, here's a new networking and learning opportunity! In August 2009, a new phase of my ground-breaking project, AmbITion, was launched in Scotland by the Sc… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on October 7, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

AmbITion Scotland launches!

It's with a big "WHOOOT!" from me that Scottish Arts Council is announcing the launch of… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on August 6, 2009 at 10:00am — 5 Comments

Art of digital, and sustainable ability

BBC technology journalist Bill Thompson has written a great article "Giving Life a Shape" on how the arts can help us all think in new ways about digital. Bill mentions… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on July 4, 2009 at 3:55pm — No Comments

iPhone apps really are great tools for cultural organisations

The Brooklyn Museum have launched an iPhone app - Brooklyn Museum Mobile Collection - through which users can view art content. The app is free, and available to download via the iTunes store. There are many things I love about… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on June 2, 2009 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

New National Theatre Wales launches - with online social network

The new National Theatre Wales has just launched with an online presence that is a social network. My environmental sustainability company, Envirodigital, worked with NTW on their digital strategy, and we recruited Cardiff-based social me… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on May 26, 2009 at 12:59pm — No Comments

After the Crunch

2 great new publications help us consider our culural businesses' futures in the bigger macro-economic framework and in the recession. Mission Models Money's Measuring Intrinsic Value makes the argument for the sector to engage with economic theory in order to be weighty at policy level by measuring - economically - both intrinsic and instrumental value.… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on April 23, 2009 at 6:15pm — No Comments

Babble or deliberate debate?

I'm not sure the name's the most complimentary , but ArtBabble (surely NO ONE babbles, rambles or burbles when discussing art do they, darling?) is one of the most interesting collaborative channels for the rich media content of the visual arts sector that I'v… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on April 14, 2009 at 2:19pm — 1 Comment

The Great Yawn - twerformance art?

Now that iTunes shuffle has changed it's name to iTunes DJ it's refusing to play half my stuff, won't take requests and keeps skinning up in my house because it thinks "it can get away with anything in the DJ booth". It's also demanding poncy cocktails, telling me it won't get out of bed for less than £3,000 and my house is now filled with trainspotters. And Amazon and Apple are having a price-off too: iTunes tracks from today cost £0.59, £0.79 or £0.99 - the older, the cheaper. In an apparent m… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on April 8, 2009 at 5:26pm — No Comments

New music for a new era - mashups and Twitter concerts show organisation: without the organisation!

This is the most amazing mash up: a new piece of music called ThruYou created from existing YouTube videos - amateurs and professionals play together! Arts funders, IP gurus and arts organisations take note - this is what can be organised without the organisation! Last night my favourite classical musician of the year (spotted at EdTwestival) Peter Gregson of Coffeeloop (an Edinburgh music and technology start-up) performed some… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on March 20, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

A Gentle Axe should fall on cultural sector Twitter naysayers!

Remember there's a lot of noise in real life too

There's a lot of talk about whether Twitter is just a lot of noise cluttering up the internet from narcissists intent on telling us about when they're having a cup of coffee. I think that if you can "get" Twitter and learn how to filter it, then you'll find it a really useful t… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on March 18, 2009 at 8:30am — 5 Comments

Rock hard questions? Charles Leadbeater responds to Digital Britain

Charles Leadbeater has responded to the Digital Britain report (see previous blog) - read the full response here. His main thoughts are on how the report fails to specify ambitious bandwidth targets that would enable new services to emerge in light of newly shifted cultural behaviours. Enjoy experiences, talk experiences and do experien… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on February 18, 2009 at 8:41pm — 2 Comments

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