Glenn Gould. Bach. Partita n 2. Ontario. 1958.

As a former museum curator, I'm more shocked that viewers find this walkthrough realistic than I am in Sora's achievement. No physics model could produce this physically impossible gallery, and no self-respecting artist would produce the malformed pastiches on its walls.

The whole Art Fund team and board are thrilled that Sandy Nairne will be our new Chair from the autumn, succeeding Chris Smith who will retire from the board after 10 years as our Chair. We’re fortunate to have two such brilliant leaders to guide our work.

This is truly epic news... I am in awe, as I usually am around Tina Rivers Ryan

📣New job alert! We're looking for a Change Coordinator to join our team at The Hunterian University of Glasgow. The Grade 5 post is full-time (35 hours p/w) and fixed term to 31 July 2025. Vacancy ref: 142428. Closing date 7 April 2024. Find out more or apply: ow.ly/beO950QXnUV

this morning in our class about the future of digital cultural heritage, students asked what I could tell them about museums and NFTs... we all need to swot up even more on this history.

"Increasingly, data flows once confined to books and later to records and films are disappearing into black holes and boxes that, as artificial intelligences, are bidding us farewell on their way to nameless high commands." Kittler, Preface to Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, 1985

In April, we are co-organising a conference with the The Hunterian & Institute of Art & Law "From Scotland to the World: Repatriation and Museums" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌍 Returns to countries and communities raise the question of best practice on repatriation... Want to know more? 👇 create.ac.uk/blog/2024/03/2…

SGSAH Discipline+Catalyst cultural and museum studies Event 18 & 19 April: eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-parchme… - PhD students in the catalyst are especially invited to sign up.

As the saying goes, show me an AI model and I’ll show you a labour violation. Thanks James Bridle for spelling this out so cogently theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In celebration of Dr Johanna’s Green's life and work, we invite you to join us for the first Annual Lecture in her honour, 24th April at 5.00pm buytickets.at/universityofgl… University of Glasgow UofG Arts & Humanities UofGlasgowASC

job klaxon! we are looking for someone who loves information in all its myriad forms to join our cheery gang UofG Information Studies on a permanent full time basis. search vacancy ref 144473 on gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ for more details. closing: 14 May.

the Lecturer / Senior Lecturer job in Information Studies is listed here too, please share! jobs.ac.uk/job/DHG603/sch…

does your university have peregrine falcons? didn't think so.

re museums of the year: so proud to live in two cities with brilliant organisations dear to my heart, both nominated for 2024: DCA in the UK and Bildmuseet in Sweden. 👏👏👏

sometimes it's very tempting to start over ;-) dream position here:

Can the same digitised public domain work by the same artist be considered both in and out of copyright by different museums in the same legal jurisdiction?🤔 Enter the world of Schrödinger’s copyright👇 douglasmccarthy.com/2024/06/schrod… #copyright #IP #museums #UK #openGLAM #openaccess

also... stay tuned for a call out for artists and researchers for a networking event at UofGlasgow on August 6th as part of Quantum ARC - details coming soon! #quantum #scienceart

I’m one of the very many people who went to bed last night not knowing what the schedule would be this morning and it turns out my usual trains (in and out) are those which have been axed from the schedule. Awake early for nought / longer day ahead.😖