Posts tagged Museums

Love this art crate stencil: don’t leave art crate exposed to the sun. #museums (at Indianapolis Museum Of Art (IMA))

Love this art crate stencil: don’t leave art crate exposed to the sun. #museums (at Indianapolis Museum Of Art (IMA))

My Back Against the Record Machine: Suse Cairns: Do museum staff have the right to be offline?

Interesting article, but I’m still not really sure what is meant by “staff”.

I’m just as interested in the question: “Do artworks have the right to be offline?”

5easypieces:

There have been a number of interesting and important discussions taking place around the ‘Net in the follow up to Museum and the Web, and hopefully over the coming week or two we’ll get to explore a few of them. One post that I keep coming back to, however, is Koven Smith’s Leave tech in the…

Horizon Report 2011: Museum Edition.

Not a lot new here, but it’s always interesting to see how wrong people are in predicting future technologies …

Also, I really don’t really understand at all what is meant by digital preservation as it’s described here.  I suppose I should read the report.

youtu.be

I spent last week in Lisbon attending the International Council of Museum’s Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) 16th Annual Triennial Conference. It was a really great week not only for the conference but also for all of the interesting folks I met along the way (and, of course, the city!).   

I was particularly glad to meet Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) editor Sarah Everts, who writes the blog “Artful Science.”  I’ve been a long-time fan of her important coverage of the intersection between science and art.  She’s provided a great write up of the conference in three blog posts (images above grabbed from her blog).  Here they are, go read all three!

cenblog.org

“All your stories, all your apps, and a new way to express who you are” – Did Facebook just become a social history museum? by Suse Cairns

This article by Suse Cairns is an interesting take on Facebook’s new Timeline, but I was thinking about it in a slightly different way: did Facebook Timeline just pawn all of the Content Management Systems (EMu, TMS, Past perfect, etc.) and the new Mellon projects, Collectionspace & Conservationspace?

Here’s a video that describes Facebook Timeline. 

It would be great if museums could harness this kind of thinking and use it for collections management systems …. Seriously, what if museums had a Facebook for their artworks?  That kind of easy functionality and interface would make things a heck of a lot easier.

In this way we could keep a Timeline of everything that happens to them: when they are made, exhibited, broken, repaired, installed, loaned, de-accesioned, etc.

If only I knew computer magic and had a little free time, I just make the program this afternoon ….

Two Graduate Students Making a Big Impact This Summer

Sarah Stierch is featured this week in a Smithsonian publication, “The Torch.”  She’s interning this summer at the American Archives as their Wikipedia in Residence. Check out the article here or read this to find out what she’s doing this summer.

 

Lori Phillips’ column for the Marcus Institute for Digital Education in the Arts seems to be taking off.  This week she wrote about WikiProject:Public Art.  Check out all of her posts here.

They’re both on their way to Haifa, Israel to present at Wikimania 2011 to present about their work.  Check out the full list of talks here.

A performance of Harry Bertoia’s famous “Sonambient®” works.  Pretty awesome. I wonder how many museums own these works.  Anyone know?

I could listen to Lonnie Bunch talk every week.  Here he’s talking generally about the National Museum of African American History and Culture.