Geopolitics of Digital Heritage analyzes and discusses the political implications of the largest digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance, from the city-state governed Singapore Memory Project, to a national aggregator like Australia's Trove, to supranational digital heritage platforms, such as Europeana, to the global heritage aggregator, Google Arts & Culture.

The chapter discusses sustainable museum funding activities in the context of post-industrial economies. It explores these activities as driving factors that transform museums in the 21st century into dynamic actors of creative economy. The chapter argues that museums are increasingly adopting various ad hoc innovative funding strategies that enable them to generate self-earned revenue. They do it by (1) leveraging their collection’s assets, (2) integrating into the urban tourism economies, and even (3) monetizing their brands via franchising.

When setting a new strategy for their firm, managers engage in a range of sensegiving activities designed to introduce the new direction and explain the reasons for the change. These communication events commonly involve the use of strategic management terms and concepts to explain and justify the prescribed strategy. Literature thus far assumes that audiences understand and agree that these terms and underlying concepts are appropriate and relevant.

In the light of lockdowns, the authors’ Telepresence Stage research project (2021–22) developed effective, affordable approaches to connect theatre and dance performers from their separate homes and place them together within virtual sets online. Combining videoconference and chromakey technologies with virtual scenography, the performers are freed from Zoom-style walled boxes and are able to physically interact, including (virtually) hugging, kissing or fighting one another.

The chapter explores a film interpretation of T.S Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land which the author completed with  students and staff from LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. It analyses the dizzying array of choices and potentialities that came with translating the poem into a cinematographic form.

This article discusses the evolution of jazz guitar fingerings through three different approaches to navigating chord changes: vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. It explains the early limitations of vertical fingerings and how it was improved with the advent of the horizontal approach, evidenced in the jazz world by Pat Metheny in the 1970s. It also looks at how Kurt Rosenwinkel introduced diagonal fingerings to the broader jazz audience in the late 1990s. This article explains these three fingering styles and provides examples and a pedagogical guide for their study.

This case study explores the approach by LASALLE College of the Arts to blending digital and physical arts education in Singapore. Proving the institution’s adaptability during the pandemic, LASALLE successfully integrated digital learning platforms while preserving the immersive nature of arts education. Key initiatives include technology integration through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects, hybrid teaching methods and more recently, the exploration of generative AI as a collaborative tool.

This study investigated the efficacy of Virtual Reality (VR) in reducing Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) and improving public speaking skills in English language learners. Using Oculus Quest 2 headsets, fifteen participants engaged in four two-minute presentation exercises across two sessions in VR environments that varied in audience size and ethnic composition. These settings facilitated interactive presentations, enabling participants to receive feedback from virtual audiences.