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Experiments in media, technology & user experience from inside @ACMI, Melbourne.
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Access initiatives in exhibitions at ACMI
Access initiatives in exhibitions at ACMI
In 2021 ACMI and Arts Access Victoria (AAV) agreed to enter a partnership to use the newly opened ACMI as a test bed for advancing…
Tim Woodward
Dec 19, 2023
ACMI at Fantastic Futures 2023
ACMI at Fantastic Futures 2023
Fantastic Futures 2023 is the annual International Conference on AI for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (ai4lam). It was hosted by…
Francesco Ramigni
Dec 7, 2023
Embeddings and our collection
Embeddings and our collection
How we built our new Works Explorer using vector embeddings of our collection records.
Simon Loffler
Oct 26, 2023
Linking ACMI & Wikidata
Linking ACMI & Wikidata
ACMI’s Wikimedian-in-Residence, focused on connecting audiovisual collection data with Wikidata.
Paul Duchesne
Oct 21, 2023
Getting our Wikimedian-in-Residence going
Getting our Wikimedian-in-Residence going
In early 2023, we were delighted to be one of the successful recipients of a Wikimedia Australia Partnership Projects grant. We’re using…
Indigo Holcombe-James
Sep 11, 2023
Search inside our videos — Part 2: content discovery
Search inside our videos — Part 2: content discovery
Extending the ACMI video search by looking inside image frame content using VideoMAE, YOLOv8, and BLIP-2.
Simon Loffler
Aug 3, 2023
Search inside our videos — Part 1: dialogue discovery
Search inside our videos — Part 1: dialogue discovery
After the first pass at transcribing our video collection was complete we started prototyping a way to search those transcriptions.
Simon Loffler
Mar 26, 2023
Collection video transcriptions at scale with Whisper
Collection video transcriptions at scale with Whisper
The ACMI Labs team has spent the past few weeks prototyping, building, and integrating automated video transcriptions into our museum
Simon Loffler
Dec 9, 2022
Reimagining ACMI membership
Reimagining ACMI membership
The before.
Benjamin Haller
Sep 27, 2022
Extending the museum XOS technology for researcher access needs
Extending the museum XOS technology for researcher access needs
Some context
Lucie Paterson
Aug 22, 2022
ACMI x DALL·E mini
ACMI x DALL·E mini
We thought we’d pass the ACMI collection metadata to DALL·E mini and see what images it might generate.…
Simon Loffler
Jun 26, 2022
AMAGA 2022 presentation: How to increase your museum’s digital literacy
AMAGA 2022 presentation: How to increase your museum’s digital lite...
Indigo Holcombe-James and I spoke at AMAGA 2022 conference about digital literacy in museums. This is a rough transcript.
Lucie Paterson
Jun 15, 2022
Making legacy videogames and artworks playable with EaaSI via ACMI’s website
Making legacy videogames and artworks playable with EaaSI via ACMI’...
For the first time at ACMI, we’re making Australian videogames and interactive artworks from the 1990’s playable in a web browser
Candice Cranmer
May 1, 2022
Observations from inside a museum
Observations from inside a museum
How observations can help UX designers become immersed in a new workplace.
Freya
Apr 26, 2022
Conserving software: Unity, Macromedia Director, Max/MSP and time-based media ACMI’s Collection
Conserving software: Unity, Macromedia Director, Max/MSP and time-b...
Insights into the kinds of challenges that software-based artworks face as they age
Jesse Dyer
Dec 22, 2021
Introducing the ACMI Public Collections API
Introducing the ACMI Public Collections API
It has been just over a decade since the first public APIs appeared in the museum community. Usually released by institutions to encourage…
Simon Loffler
Nov 11, 2021
What UX looks like inside a museum
What UX looks like inside a museum
It’s a little different month to month…
Pip Shea
Sep 16, 2021
Cinema 3: spinning up a museum video streaming service for the pandemic and beyond
Cinema 3: spinning up a museum video streaming service for the pand...
Detailing the behind the scenes process to get ACMI’s streaming video on demand service up and running during COVID-19.
Lucie Paterson
Aug 15, 2021
Stelarc, lockdown and the obsolete body
Stelarc, lockdown and the obsolete body
During ACMI’s closure, I had the opportunity to be redeployed into the collections team. Having worked with the visitor experience and…
Narinda Cook
Jul 5, 2021
Opening a conversation on ‘soft tech infrastructure as community garden’
Opening a conversation on ‘soft tech infrastructure as community ga...
Recently Ben Cerveny from the Foundation for Public Code invited me to be part of a panel at the Media Architecture Biennale alongside…
Seb Chan
Jul 5, 2021
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