John Stack

Soon to be Director of Digital Innovation and Technology at the National Gallery. Currently Trustee of Art UK. Previously Digital Director at the Science Museum Group, principal investigator of the Heritage Connector research project, Head of Digital at Tate and Editor at Phaidon Press.

Selected work

Science and Innovation Park

Website (2024)

Science Museum Group Collection Online 2.0

Website redesign (2024)

Science Museum Group

Website redesign (2023)

Science Museum Group Journal

Website redesign (2023)

Virtual Heart

Interactive exhibit (2023)

Turn It Up: The Power of Music

Interactive exhibits (2023)

Wonderlab+

Website (2022)

Stephen Hawking's Office

3D scan (2022)

Daily Herald Archive

Photography archive digitisation (2022)

Wonderlab AR

Augmented reality app (2022)

Schools and Groups Online Booking

Self-service booking (2022)

Technicians: The David Sainsbury Gallery

Interactive exhibits (2022)

Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination

Interactive exhibits (2022)

Curator with a Camera

Video series (2021–)

Sound Tracks

Mobile audio guide (2021)

One by One: Projects 2 and 3 (Co-Investigator)

Research projects (2021–22)

Heritage Connector (Principal Investigator)

Artificial intelligence research project (2020–21)

Never Been Seen

Web interactive (2020)

Science Museum Online Shop

eCommerce relaunch (2020)

Museum in a Tab

Chrome browser extension (2019)

Science City 1550–1800

Interactive exhibits (2019)

What The Machine Saw

Artificial intelligence research project (2019)

Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries

Interactive exhibits (2019)

Total Darkness

Game (2018)

Stephenson's Rocket

3D scan (2018)

The Sun: Living With Our Star

Interactive exhibits (2018)

Hanley Page VR

Virtual reality experience (2017)

Science Museum Group Museum Websites

Website redesigns (2017)

Science Museum Group Collection

Collection website (2016)

Science Museum Group Collection Open Data API

Application programming interface (2016)

Launchball (HTML5 Version)

Game (2016)

Science Museum Group Digital Lab

Experimental digital laboratory (2016–22)

Annotate

Crowdsourced artist books transcription (2016)

1840s GIF Party

Digital exhibit (2014)

Institutional Strategy Digest

Zine (with Sarah Hromack, 2013)

Tate Website

Website redesign (2012)

The Digital Museum

Blog (2012–)

Ai Weiwei: One-to-One With The Artist

Interactive exhibit (2011)

The Muybridgizer

Mobile app (2010)

Tate Channel

Website (2009)

Intermedia Art

Website (2008)

Tate Kids

Website (2008)

How We Are Now

Interactive exhibit (2007)

Contemporary Artists Series: Phaidon Press

Book series (1998–2004)

Themes and Movements Series: Phaidon Press

Book series (1998–2004)

Heaven and Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye

Book (2004)

Fresh Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture

Book (2000)

Robert Mangold

Book (2000)

Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture

Book (1998)

Selected papers

Selected awards

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