REVUE DU WEB / OCTOBRE 2022

Chaque mois, le CLIC sélectionne pour ses membres des articles parus sur la toile (française et internationale) traitant de l’actualité de l’innovation et des technologies dans un contexte culturel et patrimonial. Certains de ces articles sont inclus dans la newsletter hebdomadaire réservée aux membres. Retrouvez ci-dessous, la revue du web intégrale d’OCTOBRE 2022, réservée aux membres du CLIC.

MUSEE & CULTURE MONDE

.  Even as NFTs Plummet, Digital Artists Find Museums Are Calling (nytimes.com, 31/10/2022)

After decades as outcasts, digital artists are receiving a warm reception from curators at major museums looking to embrace new audiences and retain wealthy donors from the NFT boom.

The Museum of Modern Art’s lobby will glow this winter, not by the twinkling lights of the holiday season but the swirling datascapes of a digital artist whose popularity rose during the speculative frenzy around NFTs.  Last year, Refik Anadol plugged more than 138,000 images and text materials from the museum’s publicly available archive into a machine-learning model to  create hundreds of colorful abstractions  that he called €œmachine hallucinations, € selling them as NFTs, or nonfungible tokens.

.  Will the NFT phenomenon be nipped in the bud ? (El Pais, 13/10/2022)

NFTs started the year with a record volume of transactions, now it looks as though they could lose almost 98% of their value €“ a temporary crisis or the punchline to a bad joke ?

Two recent news items confirm the extreme  volatility of the digital non-fungible token  (NFT), which has been at the center of a speculative storm in the art world. On September 27, Martà­n Mobarak, a private collector from Miami,  burned  Fantasmones Siniestros  (Sinister Ghosts),  an original work by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, after digitizing it and launching 10,000 NFTs that will go on sale soon.

. NYC Goes Wild for More French Immersive Art This Fall (frenchly.us, 14/10/2022)

Like QR menus, masks on public transit, and WFH, immersive art experiences appear to be one more thing we started during the pandemic that seems to be here to stay.  The popularity of many of these exhibitions has driven a shift in how museums and art galleries approach development of new exhibitions, moving away from art objects and towards €œart experiences. €

Many of these immersive are experiences are created in partnership with tech companies who aim to create easily-transportable (and exportable) packages that can be executed in-house, simplifying the supply chain and concentrating profits. Museums are being designed to be more interactive and UX-friendly, while hundreds of years of oil paint and canvas is being reduced to a file on some corporate software engineer’s MacBook.

. Experiencing the rise of immersive entertainment (vfxvoice.com, 3/10/2022)

Immersive entertainment is selling out venues all over the world. Meow Wolf’s interactive psychedelic fun houses, Dreamscape’s full-roam multi-player VR adventures, immersive Van Gogh exhibits, and experiential art and entertainment are all part of a growing new €˜experience economy’ that involves both traditional and €˜immersive’ artists. It may transform malls, museums and theme parks along the way.

. Art spurs climate change discussion in museums here and across the U.S (boston.com, 16/10/2022)

« Art connects with us at an emotional level and a human level and touches on that empathy that’s in all of us. »  

Earlier this year, when volunteers painted trees in downtown Salem bright blue for a new Peabody Essex Museum installation, a passerby remarked that the trees hadn’t always been there.   €œHe walked up and asked us what we were doing, as many did, € recalled Jane Winchell, the director of PEM’s Art & Nature Center and curator of Natural History. €œAnd he said, €˜These trees weren’t here before, right?’ But the trees had been there for years, passed unnoticed by many, until they were painted blue for Konstantin Dimopoulos’s €˜The Blue Trees’ installation. €

.  British Museum urged to drop BP sponsor deal for Egypt exhibition (The Guardian, 11/10/2022)

Campaigners including the musician Brian Eno, the author Ahdaf Soueif and the actor Miriam Margolyes have criticised BP’s sponsorship of an exhibition of Egyptian artefacts at the  British Museum.

The exhibition opens shortly before the critical  Cop27 climate summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh this November.  The campaigners argue that €œBP has partnered closely with successive governments and regimes in  Egypt, € and that laws restricting freedom of expression and protest rights have quashed any potential pushback against BP’s fossil fuel extraction projects in the country.

.  Repatriation goes digital: Tribes receive archival copies of cultural materials (mprnews.org, 5/10/2022)

Thousands of culturally significant photographs, wax cylinder recordings and journals recently returned to the place where they were created over a century ago among the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes in North Dakota.

The return of the collection now in the archive of the Minnesota Historical Society was done through a process called digital repatriation.  It’s a new tool being used by institutions  including museums to return archival quality copies of cultural materials that are not physical objects back to the tribes they belong. These materials are considered intellectual properties.  

.  New UK Advisory Board Chaired by Former Culture Minister Calls for Return of Parthenon Marbles (artnews.com, 14/10/2022)

A new advisory board in the UK chaired by the former Conservative culture minister has been launched dedicated to returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, the  BBC  reported Thursday.

The board, called the  Parthenon Project, will be headed by Lord Vaizey, a culture minister from 2010 to 2016. He told the  BBC  that he believes   €œa deal is within reach €.

.  Sacred Items in Massachusetts Museum to Be Returned to Sioux (Bloomberg, 10/10/2022)

About 150 items considered sacred by the Sioux peoples that have been stored at a small Massachusetts museum for more than a century are being returned, museum and tribal officials announced Monday.

The items including weapons, pipes, moccasins and clothing €” about seven or eight of which are thought to have a direct link to the the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre €” are due to be formally handed over during a ceremony scheduled for Nov. 5, Ann Meilus, president of the board at the Founders Museum in Barre, said during a news conference…

.  Smithsonian Returns 29 Benin Bronzes to the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria (si.edu, 11/10/2022)

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art transferred ownership of 29 Benin bronzes to the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria. The bronzes, which were part of the museum’s collection, were stolen from Nigeria during the 1897 British raid on Benin City. The Smithsonian’s Board of Regents voted to deaccession the bronzes in June in keeping with the Smithsonian’s new ethical returns policy.

.  ‘Cultural cleansing’: New Russian attacks on Ukraine spur cultural preservation efforts (france24.com, 14/10/2022)

As missile strikes in Ukraine this week damaged libraries, museums and universities, Ukraine says repeated Russian attacks on cultural heritage amount to a €œwar crime € that have caused losses of hundreds of millions of euros. Among Ukrainians, the fight to preserve cultural heritage continues.  

MUSEE & CULTURE FRANCE

.  L’art immersif, une certaine idée de la culture (leclaireur.fnac.com, 22/10/2022)

à€ l’heure o๠n’importe quel chef-d’œuvre est accessible en quelques secondes sur un écran de téléphone, l’art dit « immersif » ne s’est jamais autant développé. Et s’il faut bien distinguer l’art immersif de l’expérience de l’immersion (qui peut concerner d’autres domaines que l’art), il n’en reste pas moins que ce concept pose autant de questions qu’il soulève d’intérêt. Omniprésence des dispositifs numériques, nouveaux publics, prix des billets, avantages et limites concrètes de telles productions : petit tour d’horizon de tout ce que l’art immersif a à  nous offrir en ce moment !

. « C’est pas Versailles ici ! » : et pourtant depuis 20 ans, le ch teau de Versailles est champion de la sobriété énergétique (francetvinfo.fr, 6/10/2022)

Alors que le gouvernement présente son plan de sobriété énergétique, tous les secteurs réfléchissent à  la question, y compris la culture. Le ch teau de Versailles, lui, est en avance et fait figure d’exemple en la matière.  

.  Mission exploratoire sur les métavers (vie-publique.fr, 24/10/2022)

Par une lettre de mission en date du 14 février 2022, le ministre de l’économie, des finances et de la relance, la ministre de la culture ainsi que le secrétaire d’à‰tat chargé de la transition numérique et des communications électroniques ont souhaité la mise en place d’une mission exploratoire sur le développement des métavers. Le présent document constitue le fruit de cette mission, aboutie en juillet 2022, et qui a été portée par Camille François, chercheuse à  Columbia University, Adrien Basdevant, avocat au Barreau de Paris, et Rémi Ronfard, chercheur à  l’Inria.

.  Le secteur culturel tente d’adapter son fonctionnement à  la crise énergétique (Le Monde, 01/10/2022)

Pour faire face à  la hausse du coà»t du gaz et de l’électricité et contribuer aux efforts de sobriété, musées, ch teaux, cinémas, thé tres et salles de concerts essaient de réduire leur consommation.

Avec ses b timents souvent spacieux, qui accueillent du public parfois sept jours sur sept et jusque tard dans la nuit, le secteur de la culture, déjà  fragilisé par la crise sanitaire, a vu la charge de sa consommation énergétique augmenter de manière inquiétante depuis que la guerre russo-ukrainienne a fait monter en flèche le coà»t du gaz et de l’électricité.

.  A Vault Holding Long-Hidden French Treasures Swings Open Its Doors (nytimes.com, 14/10/2022)

The National Library of France has undergone an extensive renovation, and relics from Charlemagne to Voltaire are now on display.

King Dagobert’s bronze throne. Charlemagne’s ivory chess pieces. Mozart’s handwritten score of €œDon Giovanni. € A 16th-century globe €” the first to use the word €œAmerica. €  In a library? Yes, but not just any library. These works belong to the National Library of France. After 12 years and 261 million euros (more than $256 million) of renovations, the country’s national library in the heart of Paris has reopened and is showing off more than 900 of its treasures.

. Vaisselle, tableaux, mobilier ancien… Visualisez la disparition de milliers d’œuvres d’art prêtées aux institutions françaises (francetvinfo.fr, 06/10/2022)

TECHNOLOGIES

.  Les chiffres clés d’Internet et des réseaux sociaux dans le monde en octobre 2022 (blogdumoderateur.com, 20/10/2022)

Découvrez les principaux enseignements à  retenir de l’étude annuelle réalisée par We Are Social et Hootsuite, mise à  jour avec les chiffres du mois d’octobre 2022.

.  Company Documents Show Meta’s Flagship Metaverse Falling Short (wsj.com, 17/10/2022)

Most visitors to Horizon Worlds generally don’t return after first month; €˜an empty world is a sad world’.

.  Le casque VR Meta Quest Pro est officiellement lancé à  1799 ‚¬, on l’a essayé (lesnumeriques.com, 11/10/2022)

Après des mois de teasing, fuites et rumeurs, le Meta Quest Pro est enfin officiel. Un casque de réalité mixte (à  la fois virtuelle et augmentée) d’un genre nouveau, techniquement impressionnant, mais qui aura fort à  faire pour trouver son public.

.  8 idées de jeux concours à  lancer sur les réseaux sociaux (blogdumoderateur.com, 13/10/2022)

Vous souhaitez lancer un jeu concours sur vos réseaux sociaux ? Découvrez 8 idées de jeux pour engager votre communauté et gagner en visibilité.

.  Les 30 marques les plus puissantes sur les réseaux sociaux en 2022 (blogdumoderateur.com, 5/10/2022)

Découvrez quelles sont les marques les plus populaires sur les réseaux sociaux, et leurs stratégies pour fédérer leurs communautés.

SOURCES: presse

PHOTO : divers

PHOTO du carrousel: création de Refik Anadol pour le MoMA (c) Refik Anadol Studio

Date de première publication: 31/10/2022