RESEARCH

Brendan is dedicated to researching topics related to how emerging technologies and entrepreneurial methodologies impact the art, culture, and museum sectors. He has deep interests in artificial intelligence (AI), machine vision, spatial computing, augmented reality (AR), and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).

Patents

• Prioritized activity based location aware content delivery system (9,723,440)

• Location and activity aware media content delivery system (9,775,003)

• Media content delivery system and method (10,034,142)

• Location and activity aware content delivery system (10,264,392)

• Method and system for generating indoor wayfinding instructions (10,573,025)

• System and method for seamless venue admission (10,827,353)

• Delivering information about an image corresponding to an object at a particular location (11,068,556)

Papers

• “AI Sees What? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Machine Vision for Museum Collections” (2020)

• “Disrupting the Museum: New Models of Innovation for the 21st-Century Museum” (2018)

• “Examining The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence In Museums” (2017)

Mentions & Citations

• “Curatorial Dreaming in the Age of COVID-19” (2021)

• “Pushing the Public Art Network Database into the Current Digital Age: Collections as Data” (2021)

• “Computer Vision Tagging the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection: A Comparison of Three Systems” (2021)

• “Designing a Classroom-Based Lesson Plan Template for Art Museums” (2021)

• “Rethinking Museums after COVID-19” (2021)

• “Crypto Collectibles, Museum Funding and OpenGLAM: Challenges, Opportunities and the Potential of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)” (2021)

• “Cellphones in the Museum Space: A Tool for Inclusivity in the Twenty-First Century” (2021)

• “The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the American Museum Industry: A Historical Analysis, and an Inspection of Current Events, with a Look Towards the Future” (2021)

• “Come, Stay, Learn, Play: A Guide to Making the Museum Experience” (2021)

• “Digital Practices and Strategies of Western United States Museums during the COVID-19 Pandemic” (2020)

• “Museum Startup Hubs and Social Innovation: How Entrepreneurial Incubators, Accelerators, and Coworking Programs in Museums Generate Value” (2020")

• “Museums in the Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic” (2020)

• “Heritage in Lockdown: Digital Provision of Memory Institutions in the UK and US of America during the COVID-19 Pandemic” (2020)

• “Managing the Cultural Business: Avoiding Mistakes, Finding Success” (2020)

• “A Comparative Approach between Different Computer Vision Tools, Including Commercial and Open-source, for Improving Cultural Image Access and Analysis” (2020)

• “Covid-19 and the Creative Economy: Surveys, Aids, Tools, and a Bit of Hope” (2020)

• “A Cultural Memory of the Digital Age?” (2020)

• “Exploring the Potential of Participatory Augmented Reality and Virtual Experiences in the Contemporary Art Museum” (2020)

• “The Use of Augmented Reality (AR) in ELearning Applications” (2020)

• “Rethinking Museums In The Digital Era?” (2019)

• “The Cultural Logic of the Museum in the Era of the Sharing Economy” (2019)

• “Smart Cities and Digital Culture: Models of Innovation” (2019)

• “Participatory Innovation and Prototyping in the Cultural Sector: A case study” (2019)

• “Rethinking Museums in the Digital Era” (2019)”

• “Paintings without Frames: The Role of Augmented Reality in Art Galleries” (2019)

• “Historic Voicebot” (2019)

• “Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research” (2019)

• “Making the Invisible Visible - Augmented Reality in Cultural Education” (2019)

• “Areas of Application for Artificial Intelligence in the Content Work of Cultural Enterprises” (2019)

• “A Crisis of Capacity - How can Museums use Machine Learning, the Gig Economy and the Power of the Crowd to Tackle our Backlogs.” (2019)

• “Augmented Reality for Museum Use: Cultural Resources or Inevitable Invasions?” (2018)

• “Artificial Intelligence in Museums” (2018)

• “AR - the Way to Go When Art is Lost in a Fire?” (2018)

• “Experimental Culture: A horizon scan commissioned by Arts Council England” (2018)

• “Hyper-Connected Museum” (2018)

• “Cross-Sectors Collaborations in Cultural Heritage: Bridging The Technological Knowledge Gap” (2018)

• “Visualising Medical Heritage: New Approaches to Digitisation and Interpretation of Medical Heritage Collections” (2018)

• “Coworking Spaces, Accelerators and Incubators: Emerging Forms of Museum Practice in an Increasingly Digital World” (2018)

• “The Business of Art The Market for Art in Netherlands in 17th Century” (2018)

• “More than Myth-Busting: Thoughts on a Teach-in Prompted by the Proposed Elimination of Federal Funds for Culture” (2017)

• “Visitors, Museums, and Mobiles” (2017)

• “High-Tech Museum Exhibits in the Twenty-First Century: An Evolution of Education and Entertainment” (2015)