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On all things digital – from our work on the web to technology in the museum.

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The Algorithmic Gesture: Sougwen Chung’s MEMORY

The V&A has recently acquired MEMORY (Drawing Operations Unit Generation 2) by Sougwen Chung. The acquisition of MEMORY comprises a fine art print, a film documenting the...

Katherine Mitchell

Digital at the V&A

Explore the Collections – our new Organisation Pages

Design and society

Made in Code: Reimagining the Experience of Fashion

Caring for our collections

Museum photography: Now and then

Photographing the Ascension

Open Call: Digital Preservation at the V&A

Season’s greetings cards – Digital art from Patric Prince’s personal collection

The Algorithmic Gesture: Sougwen Chung’s MEMORY

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Open call: apply for a new shifting perspectives residency

Search by object, artist, maker…

Preserving and sharing born-digital objects: end of project symposium

Big tech heritage: collecting impossible objects

Untangling the web – visualising the networks involved in the construction of the Royal Albert Hall

Design and society

How could the metaverse effect the way we operate and support digital practice in museums?

Advice on Creative Careers

The Hero Arm: why children make great designers

Sian Fan – digital wonderlands resident

Design and society

Digital Design Weekend 2021

Design and society

Born-digital objects and the not so digital challenges for museum collections

Friday Late: ‘spirit moves’ by anaiis

Friday Late: Extended Play x Mahalia

Friday Late: ‘Echoes’ by Le Gateau Chocolat

Person in a sharply cut orange wig, wearing a pink and purple sparkly cloak, holding balloons in one hand and sparkly red shoes in the other

Machine Vision symposium

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Open call: apply for a new digital wonderlands residency

How We Brought the Online Collections into the Modern Age using Web Technology of the Past

If you are reading this blog post, hopefully you will have seen – and been enjoying using – Explore The Collections. I have been a part of the development team for...

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Friday Late: ‘Bring Me To Heal’

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Pandemic Objects: Streaming Services

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Pandemic Objects: Google Street View

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