MarDIxon

@mardixon
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Mom who loses arguments to a teen. Troublemaker with social/digital in the cultural sector. Run campaigns to make people like cultural (#MuseumSelfie anyone?)
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Great one for
#opendata #citizenscience

Google unveils search engine for open data

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06201-x

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

Next @CultureThemes:
#AskACurator September 12 2018

And follow @AskACurator on Twitter and Instagram

https://culturethemes.blogspot.com/2018/09/next-culturethemes-askacurator.html

Next @CultureThemes: #AskACurator September 12 2018 @AskACurator

Well - #MusMeme was certainly popular - who would have thought?! Thank you so much to everyone who took part.  I took a little survey...

I always said people were scared of data with big brands (Apple/Google) but yet wear fitbit not knowing where data is going. Ok anonymoized but info is stripped meaning available some where.

Fitbit's 150 billion hours of heart data reveal secrets about health

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-fitbits-150-billion-hours-heart-data-reveals-secrets-human-health-133124215.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw

Trying not to be THAT person that goes from talking about the heatwave to talking about August and cold but it's just so hard!
I'm 'watching' Big Brother - not sure why but really it's just on in the background while I read articles I've been storing all week.

BBC Four announces experimental AI and archive programming

... The same archive-scanning AI has been used to co-create Made By Machine: When AI Met The Archive - a new and experimental programme exploring how BBC R&D’s technology works. Presented by Dr Hannah Fry and a virtual co-presenter, it features four segments of archive clips sourced and edited together by the AI.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/bbc-four-ai

BBC - BBC Four announces experimental AI and archive programming - Media Centre

BBC 4.1 AI TV will bring two nights of experimental programming to BBC Four on 4-5 September, featuring new and classic programmes exploring Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Listening to Hyperallergic podcast on Artist Wojnarowicz - congrats @hragv

'After two actions led by ACT UP activists encouraged the Whitney Museum of American Art to change a wall label, we went looking for people who could tell us who Wojnarowicz was and help us decipher his complex life and art.'

https://hyperallergic.com/457381/who-was-artist-david-wojnarowicz-we-find-out/

Who Was Artist David Wojnarowicz? We Find Out

After two actions led by ACT UP activists encouraged the Whitney Museum to change a wall label, we went looking for people who could tell us who Wojnarowicz was and help us decipher his complex life and art.

Hyperallergic
Friday night and I survived the week - I mean to do list is still long but giving myself an evening of tv and social media.
Should be preparing for #AskACurator but after #MusMeme just want to rock back and forth in a dark room.

If you took part in @CultureThemes (on FB/TW/IG) #MusMeme day on August 22, please take this quick survey for some feedback. Promise it’s not long or hard

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_B0uY3kRU8D6z6KnWa1gDcse6sunfgCFwvdTHSe9oXjBC1Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

#MusMeme Survey

If you took part in @CultureThemes #MusMeme day on August 22, please take this quick survey for some feedback. If you need to contact me it's [email protected] @MarDixon / @MarDixonPic