My weekly reading list
Open AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → is upping its opt out options, MONA intends to challenge claims the Ladies Lounge is discriminatory and Cumberland Council politicises book censorship.
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What I’ve been reading the week:
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Open AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → commits to creating a tool for copyright owners
Open AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → has announced they will build a tool called Media Manager to “… enable creators and content owners to tell us what they own and specify how they want their works to be included or excluded from machine learningA term for how an AI system ‘learns’. Learn more → research and training.” They aim to have it running by next year. So far, that’s all the details we have on the tool and what it will do.
Open AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → – Tuesday 7 May 2024
Mona heads to Supreme Court in fight to keep Ladies Lounge for women
Ladies Lounge artist intends to challenge the finding it is discriminatory
MONA is appealing the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal finding that the Ladies Lounge was discriminatory to the Supreme Court of Tasmania. Artist Kirsha Kaechele’s reasoning is not just for the Lounge itself, but because “We need to challenge the law to consider a broader reading of its definitions as they apply to art and the impact it has on the world, as well as the right for conceptual art to make some people (men) uncomfortable.” This will be one to watch.
Gabriella Coslovich – Tuesday 7 May 2024
The Sydney Morning Herald
Is the secret of arts marketing really to ‘know thyself’?
Strong arts brands are important but are hard to achieve.
I love how simply Jo Pickup explains the ideal for arts marketing and how hard it is to get that. Media is fragmenting in lots of directions making arts marketers’ jobs harder. Pickup discusses research published by Advisory Board of the Arts (ABA) that shows arts organisations with a strong core institutional brand (i.e. strong core values evident in their brand) saw growth between 2018–19 and 2022–23. I have long said that arts organisations need to better understand their brands and that marketing communications is about translating business planning concepts such as vision, mission, purpose, values, goals and objectives into messages that mean something to audiences. Seems synergistic.
Jo Pickup – Wednesday 8 May 2024
ArtsHub
What’s in the same-sex parenting book banned by Cumberland City councillors in Western Sydney
Political motivations seem to be behind the same-sex book ban in Western Sydney
Cumberland City Council in Western Sydney narrowly voted to ban Same-Sex Parents by Holly Duhig and other same-sex parenting literature from their libraries. The motion was pushed for by former mayor Councillor Steve Christou, citing how religious and family-orientated the local community is. It isn’t surprising given the majority of electorates that voted ‘no’ in the same sex marriage plebiscite were in Western Sydney. But this erks me. Councillor Christou even admitted he hadn’t read Duhig’s book, making this seem more political than ‘think of the children’ to me. I totally agree with the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) that people should be free to decide what books they borrow from their public library (which is supported by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Books Create Australia).
Holly Tregenza – Wednesday 8 May 2024
ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Add it to the pile
New additions to the unread pile:
Artists as Workers: An economic study of professional artists in Australia
The seventh report by Throsby and Petetskaya tracking working conditions for professional artists has been released.
David Throsby and Katya Petetskaya – Monday 6 May 2024
Creative Australia
More to read
Of course, there’s lots of other stuff I have been reading that doesn’t make it into the weekly round up. If the long list is too much, I also group links into collections:
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