nimbuspin.com - Thomas Flynn

About

Now
Cultural Heritage Lead at Sketchfab
Co-author glam3d.org
Advisory Board, 2+3D Photography Conference

Prev.
Co-chair IIIF 3D Community Group
Co-Founder + Design @ Museum in a Box
3D + Digital Design @ British Museum
Digital, Motion Design + Content @ Barbican Centre
Digital and Motion Design @ Southbank Centre

Thanks for dropping in 🙂

You might like to see more of my work and ramblings on Sketchfab or Twitter … maybe my LinkedIn. Maybe even my Freesound or Soundcloud.

In another life I ran freelance for Design Council, Dorling Kindersly, Audible, Horniman Museum, Nowness, Sprout Pictures, Jackal Films, Villa Lunera, Knock Knock Productions, Princess Productions, Celleste Dell’Anna, Agile Films, Caviar Content, These Tales Games, Kaber Games & more.

3D Content for Museums

I’ve digitised artefacts for several museums using photogrammetry and other 3D techniques: British Museum, National Museums Scotland, Horniman Museum, UK Government Art Collection, RMO Leiden, RMN Grand Palais, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cuming Museum, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Science Museum.

Training

Introductory sessions in photogrammetry (‘photo scanning’), 3D & Sketchfab with the London Museum Development and directly with institutions.

To date I have taught 3D skills to staff from:

The British Museum
Tate
Royal Horticultural Society
Natural History Museum London
Princeton University Art Museum
The Postal Museum
Royal Philatelic Society
The Society of Antiquaries of London
Royal Academy of Arts
University of the Arts London
The Museum of London
Royal Collection Trust
The Horniman Museum & Gardens
Jewish Museum, London
Alexandra Palace
Wilton’s Music Hall
Cuming Museum
Museum of Crime
Museum of the Order of St John
SS Robin Trust
The Science Museum
National Portrait Gallery
Islington Museum
UK Government Art Collection
Stevenage Museum
Bournemouth Arts University (VFX graduate lecture)
Imperial War Museum
Museum of English Rural Life
Wellcome Trust
RAF Museum
Black Cultural Archive
Royal Institute of British Architects
Museum of the University of St Andrews
King’s College London
Birmingham Museums Trust
Reading Museum
North Hertfordshire Museum
Luton Museums
Hitchin British Schools Museum
& many more!

Public Speaking, Publications &c.

2021

Advisory Board Member, 2+3D Photography Conference Online, Rijksmuseum, Jun 2021
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/zien-en-doen/lezingen-talkshows-symposia/2and3d-photography-online?

“Publishing 3D models & intellectual property”, Sunoikisis Digital Cultural Heritage, Mar 2021
presentation deck + speaker notes

“10 Ways to Use Cultural Heritage 3D”, Innovating your Approach to Online Audience Engagement, Curatours / Virtual Umbrella, Jan 2021
presentation deck + speaker notes | event recording

“Developments in Online 3D”, Technological Revolutions and Art History, MoMA / Frick Collection, Jan 2021
presentation deck + speaker notes

2020

“Realtime Online 3D” 3Dvis Symposium 2020 Keynote, Oxford University Museum of Natural History / Warwick University, Dec 2020
presentation deck + speaker notes | presentation recording | panel discussion

IIIF 3D Community Group Report, IIIF Week
https://iiif.io/event/2020/iiifweek/#iiif-week-iiif-3d—-next-steps-&-dimensions?-iiif-3d-community-group-updates

Co-author glam3d.org, launched May 2020

Group Panel on “Recovery”, 3D digital Cultural Heritage for resilience, recovery and sustainability, May 2020

“The Sketchfab CC0/Public Domain Launch” Data Islands, Fitzwilliam Museum, March 2020
bit.ly/fitzldi

2019

Advisory Board, 2+3D Photography – Practice and Prophecies – 2019, Rijksmuseum, NL
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/2and3d

Publishing Timely 3D Narratives Online, Workshop, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, Dec 2018
goo.gl/4UQV8V

Guest seminar, Digital Materiality & Cultural Practice, Columbia University, November 2018

Explorable, Shareable 3D, DigiDoc 2018, Engine Shed Edinburgh, October 2018
https://www.engineshed.scot/digifest-2018/digidoc-timetable

Sharing 3D Online, Cultural Heritage Imaging Professionals Conference / Digipalooza 2018, Stanford Libraries, July 2018
https://library.stanford.edu/projects/cultural-heritage-imaging-professionals-conference

What happens when you put cultural heritage collections online in 3D?, 3D/VR Creation and Curation in Higher Education:
A Colloquium to Explore Standards and Best Practices, Oklahoma University, March 2018
http://vrpreservation.oucreate.com/Colloquium/speakers

Contributor, MAKERS MARKET PILOT REPORT, Europeana, January 2018
PDF Report

2017

Digital Art History Research Group Lunchtime Seminar, November 2017
link

3D & Photogrammetry Workshop @ 3D Imaging in Cultural Heritage Conference, Iperion / British Museum, Nov 2017
programme

Digital Art History: Practice & Potential, Oct 2017, Paul Mellon Centre / Courtauld Institute
programme

Museum Showoff, Sep 2017
https://museumsshowoff.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/sept-19-line-up

VRX, May 2017
http://vr-intelligence.com/europe/conference-agenda.php

Museums and the Web 2017
http://mw17.mwconf.org/proposal/getting-your-museum-into-the-3d-and-vr-realm

SXSWEdu 2017
http://schedule.sxswedu.com/events/event_PP68002

MuseumSHARE Conference 2017
http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/events/managing-digital-images-seminar

2016

VHN Ireland 2016
http://www.vhnireland.org/conference-2016/programme

Nottingham Explorers Fair 2016
https://nearnow.org.uk/events/explorers-fair

Museum Association Tech 2016
http://www.museumsassociation.org/download?id=1153182

British Library 2016
Staff briefing.

2015

Micropasts Conference Feb 2015
https://youtu.be/tVq8qlUVLRw
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1332714

Museum Showoff x2
https://museumsshowoff.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/feb-2-line-up
https://museumsshowoff.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/dec-2-line-up

Press & Publicity

As the Restitution Debate Rages on in Europe, Could the Solution Lie in the Art of the High-Tech Copy?
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/restitution-and-technology-2018-1420246

‘Here’s How You Can Help Document Rio’s National Museum Collections After The Catastrophic Fire’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/09/05/heres-how-you-can-help-document-rios-national-museum-collections-after-the-catastrophic-fire/#3fc181e43dac

‘Sketchfab challenged people to ‘remix’ ancient art, and the results are amazing’
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/sketchfab-3d-remix-challenge/

‘3D object scans as a museum learning resource’, Science Museum London
https://lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/3d-object-scans-as-a-museum-learning-resource-part-1-9e1e51b67581

‘Reframing the Past’ for the Future: A Photogrammetry Experiment, UK Government Art Collection
http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/reframingthepast.html
https://all3dp.com/uk-government-art-collection-virtual-reality

Contributing Writer to British Art Studies Conversation Piece, July 17
http://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-6

Forbes.com
https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/05/19/five-new-3d-models-of-ancient-artifacts-that-are-changing-how-we-interact-with-museums/#5641df2b1e30

London Museums Group
http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/2017/04/20/cultural-heritage-and-3d-the-power-of-virtual-things/

Augment Dev [interview]
http://www.augment.com/blog/interview-thomas-flynn/
http://www.augment.com/blog/interview-thomas-flynn-2/

MagPi Magazine [print]:
https://raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi54.pdf

Day of Archaeology
http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/day-of-archaeology-from-the-museum-of-the-world/

Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/05/07/explore-ancient-british-museum-artefacts-from-home-with-sketchfa
Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/british-museum-releases-scans-of-artefacts-to-let-you-3d-print-your-own-museum-at-home-9837654.html

Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/04/british-museum-3d-printer_n_6099038.html

Wired
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/reprinting-history

Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/the-british-museum-will-now-let-you-3d-print-copies-of-1654077136

Techcrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/30/sketchfab-becomes-a-3d-printing-repository-by-letting-you-download-3d-objects

Mashable
http://mashable.com/2014/10/31/british-museum-3d-printing-sketchfab/#mj4QM3rmViq0