John Stack
Currently Digital Director at the Science Museum Group. Previously principle investigator of the Heritage Connector project, Head of Digital at Tate and Editor of the Contemporary Artists Series at Phaidon Press.
Selected Portfolio
Wonderlab AR
App (2022)
Wonderlab+
Website (2022)
Sound Tracks
Mobile audio guide (2021)
One by One: Project 3 (Co-Investigator)
Research project (2021–22)
The Congruence Engine (Co-Investigator)
Research project (2021–24)
Heritage Connector (Principal Investigator)
Machine learning research project (2020–21)
Never Been Seen
Web interactive (2020)
Museum in a Tab
Chrome browser extension (2019)
Science City 1550–1800
Interactive exhibits (2019)
What The Machine Saw
Computer vision research project (2019)
Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries
Interactive exhibits (2019)
Stephenson's Rocket
3D scan (2018)
The Sun: Living With Our Star
Interactive exhibits (2018)
Hanley Page VR
VR experience (2017)
Science Museum Group Websites
Website redesign (2017)
Science Museum Group Collection
Collection website (2016)
Science Museum Group Collection Public API
Application programming interface (2016)
Launchball (HTML5 version)
Game (2016)
Science Museum Group Digital Lab
Experimental digital laboratory (2016–)
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)
Selected papers
- Heritage Connector: A Towards a National Collection Foundation Project Final Report
- Heritage Connector: A Machine Learning Framework for Building Linked Open Data from Museum Collections (with Kalyan Dutia)
- Curating Sound in a Platform World – Insights from the #SonicFriday project (with (Stefania Zardini Lacedelli and Dr Annie Jamieson)
- Finding the motivation behind a click: definition and implementation of a website audience segmentation (Museums and the Web 2015, with Dr Elena Villaespesa)
Selected strategy documents
- Science Museum Group Digital Strategy 2018–21
- Science Museum Group Digital Strategy 2015–17
- Tate Digital Strategy 2013–15: Digital as a Dimension of Everything (Tate Papers, Issue 19, 2013)
- Tate Online Strategy 2010–12 (Tate Papers, Issue 13, 2010)