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Supporting Grad Girls in taking their first career steps

Supporting Grad Girls in taking their first career steps
Art Processors has been a proud supporter of the Vic ICT for Women’s Grad Girls program for several years now so we were delig View Article

Transforming the Sydney Opera House into an outdoor cinema with AV sync tech

Transforming the Sydney Opera House into an outdoor cinema with AV sync tech
As far as Australian landmarks go, few are more iconic than the Sydney Opera House. View Article

When things go pear shaped: How AP’s staff benefits supported two employees

When things go pear shaped: How AP’s staff benefits supported two employees
We talk about health and wellbeing every single day at Art Processors. Face-to-face, in meetings and even on a dedicated (and busy) Slack channel, we always want to know: how are you? View Article

Finding your way around the 2022 Archibald Prize at Bunjil Place

Finding your way around the 2022 Archibald Prize at Bunjil Place
When Art Processors undertook exhibition design and wayfinding at Bunjil Place Gallery for the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ prestigious Archibald Prize, clarity and cohesion were at the View Article

Game on! How do you balance entertainment with education in a museum?

Game on! How do you balance entertainment with education in a museum?
Collaborative and authentic, the multiplayer game at the heart of Decoded: 75 Years of the Australian Signals Directorate at the National Museum Australia was a great example for museums of View Article

Great Southern Land inspiring people to consider their place in the world

Great Southern Land inspiring people to consider their place in the world
The National Museum of Australia's most significant gallery redevelopment ever tells the story of the continent as an ancient land shaped by connected, biodiverse forces. View Article

Go Girl, Go For IT: How an AR stegosaurus convinced girls to go for an IT career

Go Girl, Go For IT: How an AR stegosaurus convinced girls to go for an IT career
At the recent Go Girl, Go For IT conference, girls from years 5-12 had the opportunity to see first-hand that a career in IT can be brilliantly creative. View Article

Creating a full-stack solution to track life-saving flights

Creating a full-stack solution to track life-saving flights
The Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame wanted to evoke the spirit of innovation and community involvement that the Royal Flying Doctor Service has brought to outback Australia. View Article

What the past and modern behavioural science reveal about tourism's recovery

What the past and modern behavioural science reveal about tourism's recovery
Recent predictions on how quickly the international tourism industry will bounce back from the latest Coronavirus pandemic vary from years to decades. View Article

When is an experience too immersive? Exploring wellbeing and the museum

When is an experience too immersive? Exploring wellbeing and the museum
There was one distinctive moment that led Sarah van Haastert, Art Processors’ Business Development Lead, to want to talk on the topic of immersion and wellbeing at the 2022 AAM Annual Meeting. View Article

Iconic, intimate, in-sync: Developing the audio experience for the Bob Dylan Center

Iconic, intimate, in-sync: Developing the audio experience for the Bob Dylan Center
At the Bob Dylan Center, our specially-developed audio technology immerses visitors as they curate their own intimate journey around the archives of this icon of American music. View Article

Three Art Processors finalists in 2022 Women Leading Tech awards

Three Art Processors finalists in 2022 Women Leading Tech awards
We’re thrilled to share that three women at Art Processors — our Chief Financial Officer Amie Scruton, Visual Designer Cassandra Cox, and Lead Android Developer Rachael Jayne — are finalists in thi View Article

Revealing the secrets behind the Australian Signals Directorate

Revealing the secrets behind the Australian Signals Directorate
Throughout a new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, visitors actively uncover never-before-told stories of the Australian Signals Directorate. View Article

Reflecting the works and world of Henri Matisse with an experimental audio experience

Reflecting the works and world of Henri Matisse with an experimental audio experience
For Art Processors, and our long-term partner the Gallery Digital team, who were spearheading the charge to create an immersive audio experience in time, Matisse: Life & Spirit – Masterpiece was a case of creative problem solving to the rescue. View Article

How audio breaks down walls between indoor and outdoor spaces at The Huntington

How audio breaks down walls between indoor and outdoor spaces at The Huntington
As visitor experiences increasingly blur the lines between inside and out, The Huntington is leading the way in immersive digital storytelling inspiring full campus exploration. View Article

Black History Month: Six pioneers who make every day better

Black History Month: Six pioneers who make every day better
During Black History Month, we’ve been thinking about the Black innovators who we have to thank for where we are today. View Article

Farewell Josh Muir

Farewell Josh Muir
In 2019 an important opportunity came along for Art Processors when Bendigo Art Gallery invited our (then) small creative technology company to be part of a unique collaboration for an exhibition b View Article

Engaging people in the stories of America's public lands for the National Conservation Legacy Center

Engaging people in the stories of America's public lands for the National Conservation Legacy Center
How to manage America’s public lands has long been a political hot potato (to put it lightly). On a 30-acre site in a mountain valley in Missoula, Montana, the debate is about to be shaken up. View Article

Immersing visitors in California's beautifully bizarre Winchester Mystery House

Immersing visitors in California's beautifully bizarre Winchester Mystery House
After the tragic deaths of her child and husband, Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Rifle fortune, set about building a 160-room house to appease the spirits who died at the hands of the View Article

How we’re prioritising mental health and wellbeing

How we’re prioritising mental health and wellbeing
In Art Processors’ culture of diversity and inclusion, it’s not just OK for our people to talk about their mental wellbeing and get the support they need, when and how they need it—it’s encouraged. View Article

Art Processors recognised as a family inclusive workplace

Art Processors recognised as a family inclusive workplace
Art Processors is proud to announce its certification as a family inclusive workplace as part of an Australian-first initiative to raise the national standard of support offered by employers to wor View Article

Grace Cathedral’s TILT concert will span cultures, countries and communities

Grace Cathedral’s TILT concert will span cultures, countries and communities
Art Processors is partnering with Grace Cathedral to produce View Article

Dust to digital: The rebirth of the Stockman's Hall of Fame

Dust to digital: The rebirth of the Stockman's Hall of Fame
The Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre recently reopened its doors after undergoing a two-year, $15 million redevelopment of its galleries. View Article

Helping share WA Museum Boola Bardip’s ‘many stories’

Helping share WA Museum Boola Bardip’s ‘many stories’
Ahead of its opening in November 2020, WA Museum Boola Bardip needed a site-wide digital platform and mobile guide that could seamlessly integrate with its significant collection database a View Article

Art Processors’ Vanessa Doake named finalist in Women Leading Tech Awards

Art Processors’ Vanessa Doake named finalist in Women Leading Tech Awards
Vanessa Doake, Art Processors’s Chief People Officer, has been named a finalist in the Executive Leader category of the 2021 Women Leading Tech Awards. View Article

Statement regarding Dark Mofo act "Union Flag"

Statement regarding Dark Mofo act "Union Flag"
Like many in our community, Art Processors was shocked to hear the announcement of Spanish artist Santiago Sierra’s piece "Union Flag" as a major act for this year’s Dark Mofo festival. View Article

How The O helped Mona emerge from its COVID hibernation

How The O helped Mona emerge from its COVID hibernation
Opening in January 2011, the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), located in Hobart, Australia, has become a must-see venue for art-lovers worldwide.  View Article

International Women’s Day: Diversity, inclusion and supporting women in the tech workplace

International Women’s Day: Diversity, inclusion and supporting women in the tech workplace
"We have an amazing group of women at Art Processors, working across all areas. As a company, we're doing all we can to create a welcoming, diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone." View Article

Black History Month: Giant Steps in STEM

Black History Month: Giant Steps in STEM
The phrase 'Standing on the shoulders of giants' describes our relationship with those who blazed a path before us.  View Article

Students spread their wings with Art Processors’ Indigenous internships program

Students spread their wings with Art Processors’ Indigenous internships program
Art Processors has proudly collaborated with several cultural institutions to bring to life the vast and rich experience of First Nations peoples across Australia, including our such collaboration View Article

Gogo – The digital pocket guide to the new WA Museum Boola Bardip

Gogo – The digital pocket guide to the new WA Museum Boola Bardip
A visionary app providing visitors to the new WA Museum Boola Bardip with a unique and highly immersive view of some of that State’s most significant cultural artefacts has gone live. View Article

Has this been sanitized? - reaching museum audiences in a post-pandemic world

Has this been sanitized? - reaching museum audiences in a post-pandemic world
In collaboration with the Mid Atlantic Association of Museums, Art Processors co-hosted a webinar to explore the challenges and silver linings of reaching museum audiences in a post-quarantine world. View Article

Manufacturing success in cultural spaces with Tekt Industries

Manufacturing success in cultural spaces with Tekt Industries
For seven years Art Processors has worked with Tekt Industries to develop and manufacture unique electronic hardware offerings that meet the demand of cultural spaces. View Article

Creating a bold new Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame

Creating a bold new Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame
Art Processors is leading the artistic and digital transformation of The Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre – the largest project in the bush icon’s 30-year history. View Article

Indigenous storytelling through augmented reality

Indigenous storytelling through augmented reality
Over a year, we worked with Indigenous artist Josh Muir to create an artistic and digital journey through the artist's mind. View Article

Curating in the digital world: The changing relationship between artists, curators and tech companies

Curating in the digital world: The changing relationship between artists, curators and tech companies
Mona’s most technologically ambitious exhibition blends visitor interactions, augmented reality, and The O. View Article

Building connections through a world of sound

Building connections through a world of sound
“We are staking out new opportunities for people to engage in a moment or a place.” – Jason Renier, sound artist   View Article

How Japan Supernatural’s eerie soundscape was brought to life

How Japan Supernatural’s eerie soundscape was brought to life
How might an interpretive audio guide enhance the sonic experience of the Japan Supernatural exhibition? View Article

Augmenting reality and mining visitors

Augmenting reality and mining visitors
Simon Denny: Mine at the Museum of Old and New Art is a technologically ambitious exhibition, blending installation and sculpture with AR, visitor interaction, and real-time data extractio View Article

Not just for kids: How Art Processors is helping Mona drive engagement with family-friendly content

Not just for kids: How Art Processors is helping Mona drive engagement with family-friendly content
How do you explain art to a child? You don’t—at Mona children interpret the art on display themselves with O Minor. View Article

Simon Denny about Art Processors

Simon Denny about Art Processors
New Zealand artist Simon Denny talks about working with Art Processors on his first augmented reality piece. View Article

David Walsh about Art Processors

David Walsh about Art Processors
“The O didn’t so much benefit Mona as create it.” View Article

Immersive museum experiences making history contemporary

Immersive museum experiences making history contemporary
Technology can play a vital role in giving museum visitors the tools and knowledge to learn the lessons of the past and shape the future. View Article

Modernist immersive sound with Art Gallery of NSW

Modernist immersive sound with Art Gallery of NSW
Art Processors Sound & Music Supervisor, Becky Sui Zhen was part of a unique performance as part of the Art Gallery of NSW Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage exhibition. View Article

How accessible technology can improve the museum experience for people with disabilities

How accessible technology can improve the museum experience for people with disabilities
Museums are increasingly working towards making the visitor experience more meaningful and positive. View Article

Sound and visitor engagement: Art Processors team builds its expertise in sound, welcoming artist Jason Reinier

Sound and visitor engagement: Art Processors team builds its expertise in sound, welcoming artist Jason Reinier
Creating experiences that move visitors to momentarily lose themselves involves more than visual design. View Article

Interpreting the future

Interpreting the future
As cultural institutions continue to expand beyond a historical focus and 'look into the future', what are the opportunities and how can we capitalise on these? View Article

How the curatorial team at Mona uses 'The O'

How the curatorial team at Mona uses 'The O'
"We don’t want to tell people what to think, but we really do want people to think." View Article

AAM 2019: Learnings in Digital Immersion and Diversity

AAM 2019: Learnings in Digital Immersion and Diversity
What does the near future hold for museums? View Article

How to ‘hear’ an artwork

How to ‘hear’ an artwork
We worked with Art Gallery of NSW to create a new kind of audio guide for their exhibition of works by impressionist painter John Russell. View Article

Waiting game: How we killed off queues at Mona

Waiting game: How we killed off queues at Mona
A bad queueing experience—boredom, frustration and anger when someone skips ahead—can impact our perception of what we see at the front of the line. View Article

Awakening Knowledge of Australian Aboriginal Communities With Immersive XR

Awakening Knowledge of Australian Aboriginal Communities With Immersive XR
An important collection of First Nations belongings has been “awakened” through 3D digitisation, spatial audio, AR and VR. View Article

Bringing museums to the classroom with VR field trips

Bringing museums to the classroom with VR field trips
Kai Frazier is the founder of Curated x Kai, a tech startup that creates virtual museum visits for children in low-income communities. View Article

Intelligent Queuing Technology Key to MONA’s Busiest Month Ever

Intelligent Queuing Technology Key to MONA’s Busiest Month Ever
Summer at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) is always busy, and the most recent one was no exception. View Article

Using AR and Cricket Memorabilia to Recreate Moments in Australian Sporting History – Part 1

Using AR and Cricket Memorabilia to Recreate Moments in Australian Sporting History – Part 1
What if you could experience a moment in cricket history play out right in front of you using stumps lying around in your backyard? View Article

Using AR and Cricket Memorabilia to Recreate Moments in Australian Sporting History – Part 2

Using AR and Cricket Memorabilia to Recreate Moments in Australian Sporting History – Part 2
What if you could take a physical set of cricket stumps lying around in your backyard and recreate a moment of sporting history? View Article

Interview: DIY Monsters x Code Like a Girl

Interview: DIY Monsters x Code Like a Girl
Art Processors Producer Sara Savage catches up with interactive designer Mel Huang and Code Like a Girl co-founder/CEO Ally Watson. View Article

Universal Design and its impact on the “Freer Thinking” project

Universal Design and its impact on the “Freer Thinking” project
Freer Thinking was designed to cater to four distinct user demographics, based on their location and the accessibility levels set on their mobile devices. View Article

A week-long tour of Art Processors’s Australian digital experiences

A week-long tour of Art Processors’s Australian digital experiences
"When I started my role as Art Processors Director of Sales for Art Processors in North America, I wasn’t expecting to see anything that new." View Article

What does a virtual queue look like?

What does a virtual queue look like?
The migration of the queues to the virtual space have clearly had a visible impact on the way people interact with the space and the objects within it.   View Article

The Enso Locate Story

The Enso Locate Story
Enso Locate was designed by Art Processors to provide indoor location on iOS and Android devices. View Article

The Smithsonian Freer Thinking App won a MUSE Award Honorable Mention

The Smithsonian Freer Thinking App won a MUSE Award Honorable Mention
Our partnership with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art won a 2018 MUSE Award. View Article