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ACMI Labs
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Experiments, research and insights in media, technology and user experience from inside ACMI, Melbourne
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In this post @sighmon.com shares our latest experiment, a supercut generator which uses previous work to make our video collection more searchable and presents the results as a cut up sequence labs.acmi.net.au/supercuts-89...
Supercuts
Generating supercuts from ACMI collection video search results.
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June 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Today we published two posts that document our recent work with the ACMI Registration & Collections Team automating parts of our collection access from works webpages to Stripe for payment. The first from @luciepaterson.bsky.social is here labs.acmi.net.au/automating-c... 1/2
Automating collection access at ACMI
Extending ACMI’s existing technology to create a better experience for website users requesting collection access and internal teams…
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April 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Just published: RMIT researcher Jasmine Aslan's evaluation of Constellation 2.0, our cross-museum digital collaboration with Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum!

Jasmine's work investigated how both our museums implemented a joint digital initiative across borders and institutional contexts.
Constellation 2.0: Lessons in developing cross-museum digital projects
We’re excited to share the lessons learnt from a project we worked on with the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (DFF) between 2019–2024…
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March 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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We've been busy over on ACMI Labs documenting the outcomes of the inaugural ACMI + RMIT Small Research Grant program. Four research projects explored different dimensions of the Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature exhibition, expanding our understanding of immersive experiences...
February 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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We had fun showcasing our AI collections search for @acmimuseum.bsky.social and @statelibraryqld.bsky.social and the latest AI experiment, the anecdote machine at the #FACT2025 networking event this week. More from @sighmon.bsky.social here labs.acmi.net.au/the-anecdote...
The anecdote machine
We’re always considering new ways of engaging with the ACMI collection, using legible technology, with interfaces that require minimal…
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February 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Latest research from ACMI LABS: Breaking down how we prototype and test videogame instructions in gallery spaces. Part 1 of our Honk! Exhibition series exploring exhibition design by UX Researcher Tim Woodward
Videogame instructions in the gallery: Prototyping and testing for Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition
Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition is a world premiere exhibition at ACMI, dedicated to the hit videogame Untitled Goose Game. Curated by Jini…
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January 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Interested in how to have conversations about AI at your workplace? Sign up for the free @ndfnz.bsky.social online session with ACMI's Head of Technology, Jeff Williams on Tue 14 Jan talking about our AI Ambassadors program
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How can we effectively integrate AI into our culture sector work?

Join our free webinar with Jeff Williams, ACMI’s Head of Technology, to see how ACMI are approaching this opportunity with their AI Ambassadors program.

📅 Tues 14 Jan, 12:15 - 1pm NZT
👀 Sign up here! www.ndf.org.nz/upcoming-eve...
AI AMBASSADORS: LEARNING THROUGH PRACTICAL EXPERIMENTATION — National Digital Forum
Beyond using ChatGPT for writing and generative AI tools for creating images, how can we effectively integrate AI into our culture sector work? Join our free webinar with Jeff Williams, ACMI’s Head ...
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December 19, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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Learn about our work with the State Library of Queensland deploying XOS and its film-watching toolkit to improve accessibility and searchability.
If you’ve got a collection of video materials that you’d like us to do similar for, get in touch!
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An interstate collaboration supporting digital transformation
“It will come as no surprise to any of our colleagues in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) sector that ACMI is aligning its practices and processes to make the most of digital tran...
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December 19, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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Phew! We just imported all our tweets over. There's plenty in there from 2015 to now👇🏼
December 17, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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Our latest write-up comes from @indigohj.bsky.social about the creation of the ACMI + RMIT Small Research Grant to test new ways of documenting and analysing our exhibitions labs.acmi.net.au/experimentin...
Experimenting with exhibition research: The ACMI + RMIT Small Research Grant
How do we document and analyse exhibitions in ways that capture their full complexity? How might different disciplinary perspectives enrich…
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December 16, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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Hello friends, ACMI Labs on on BlueSky! We look forward to sharing our experimentation, research and insights and joining the conversation about all things media, technology & user experience. Long overdue!
December 16, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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👋We've been squirrelling away experimenting with large language models and our collection. Read more from @sighmon in our latest post

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Language model explorations with our collection
How we built a natural language collection chat server using LangChain and our Public API.
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December 17, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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New post from @Indigo_H_J on our recent Wikimedian-in-Residence project with @wm_au and Paul Duchesne improving our collection online metadata and exploring future possibilities for GLAM and open data

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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…
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December 17, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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New post from @sighmon on our experimental new content search within videos using #aiThis now complements our dialogue search from March 2023

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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.
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December 17, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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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

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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
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December 17, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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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.#museumjobs

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December 17, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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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

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Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI Careers, Job search, Register
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December 17, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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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

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December 17, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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New #longread from @luciepaterson about extending the museum XOS technology to manage researcher collection access requests#musetech

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Extending the museum XOS technology for researcher access needs
Some context
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December 17, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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New short post (and Juypter notebooks to play with) from @sighmon on feeding #dallemini a bunch of @acmi collection metadata

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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.…
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December 17, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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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 -

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Making legacy videogames and artworks playable with EaaSI via ACMI’s website
For the first time at ACMI, we’re making Australian videogames and interactive artworks from the 1990’s playable in a web browser
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December 17, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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New post from @Cultcons fellow Jesse Dyer on software preservation w/Unity, Director and Max/MSP -#digipres

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Conserving software: Unity, Macromedia Director, Max/MSP and time-based media ACMI’s Collection
Insights into the kinds of challenges that software-based artworks face as they age
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December 17, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Sadly @acmi farewelled @pipshea1 who has been our in-house UX designer and researcher. As a parting gift she wrote up all the things she did - a backgrounder for her successor and those in the #musetech field elsewhere

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What UX looks like inside a museum
It’s a little different month to month…
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December 17, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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New blogpost from Jesse Dyer, our inaugural @Cultcons @UniMelb Time Based Media Conservation Fellowship recipient -#digipres

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New Media Conservation Fellowship
In early 2021 Jesse Dyer was the recipient of the first Time-Based Media Conservation Fellowship, offered in partnership by the Grimwade Centre for Cultural
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December 17, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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New behind the scenes blogpost from @luciepaterson on the whole of @acmi effort involved in getting our streaming service Cinema3 off the ground and how it’s been going since last year -

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Cinema 3: spinning up a museum video streaming service for the pandemic and beyond
Detailing the behind the scenes process to get ACMI’s streaming video on demand service up and running during COVID-19.
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December 17, 2024 at 3:16 AM