Experiments in media, technology & user experience from inside @ACMI.

Melbourne, Victoria
Joined October 2015
👋We've been squirrelling away experimenting with large language models and our collection. Read more from @sighmon in our latest post labs.acmi.net.au/language-mo…
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New post from @sighmon on our experimental new content search within videos using #ai labs.acmi.net.au/video-image… This now complements our dialogue search from March 2023
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New post from @sighmon on @acmi’s new experimental ‘search inside video’ feature! labs.acmi.net.au/search-insi…
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New post: @sighmon on building and deploying an implementation of @OpenAI’s Whisper to quickly transcribe 4000+ videos in the @acmi collection labs.acmi.net.au/collection-…
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We're looking for a Strategic Research Lead to do research and evaluation of programs and projects at @ACMI Fixed term: 18 months to start with Full time (but we're flexible) Salary $90,067 - $102,192 + super Applications close 12 December. jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobt…… #museumjobs
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Join the team! We’re recruiting a Creative Technologist to work with us to innovate and experiment across our digital products and services for audiences at the museum and online. 12 months, fixed term $90,067-$102,192 + super Applications close 9 Dec jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobt…
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The latest from us is a #longread from @BenjaminHaller1 about the new @acmi membership strategy. It’s now the preferred way to engage with the museum and is integrated across all audience touch points. 325% growth since reopening last year labs.acmi.net.au/reimagining…
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New short post (and Juypter notebooks to play with) from @sighmon on feeding #dallemini a bunch of @acmi collection metadata labs.acmi.net.au/acmi-x-dall…
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New #longread from @CandiceCranmer & @sighmon on emulation and historical interactive & software art from @acmi’s collection being made available in browser with EaaSi - labs.acmi.net.au/making-lega…
Excited to see what people might do with the recently launched @ACMILabs public collections API as part of this initiative labs.acmi.net.au/introducing… #musetech
Open now! Please share! For the first time we're offering two Wikidata Fellowships worth $1000AU to curate a data set, make a prototype or undertake an investigation using @wikidata. A Wikimedian will mentor you throughout your project. Closes 27 February: wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikida…
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New post from @Cultcons fellow Jesse Dyer on software preservation w/Unity, Director and Max/MSP - labs.acmi.net.au/conserving-… #digipres
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New post from @sighmon launching @ACMI’s public collections API and a couple of Juypter Notebook examples to play with labs.acmi.net.au/introducing… /1
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This also updates @acmi’s CCO licensed collection metadata downloads originally released in 2016. The API code itself is released for other institutions to learn from /2
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The two example applications are a VQGAN+CLIP image generator based on object text data only; and a Wikidata connector to crosswalk people and named entities in the collection … go have an explore! /3
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