I can’t believe that after all this time, I’ve never featured Paul Steen-Blake on an ArtFriday. I must correct this at once.
Paul describes himself as an artist/journalist and you can see where one side influences the other. His relatively new blog BETWEEN THE NEWS is about the spiralling 4th/5th generation warfare in geopolitical hotspots. Paul has the [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Jul 31
ArtFriday: Paul Steen-Blake
Jul 28
Exclusive ArtBabble News: Ten New Partners
Newcurator.com can exclusively reveal the ten new content partners to the ArtBabble family. They are:
San Jose Museum of Art
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Norman Rockwell Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Museum of Arts & Design
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Van Gogh Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Rubin Museum of Art
And [...]
Jul 28
C’mon, Let’s Hug It Out Bitch
IMA Chief Information Officer Rob Stein threw down a pretty good defence in response to Nina Simon’s article: Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto. It was a good defence, but I saw a very different attack.
Nina preaches a particular brand of participatory design that I only partially understand myself, but I guess this is why Nina gets paid [...]
Jul 27
Bokode
Instead of large-print black and white barcodes to be scan at close-range (like my QR code), a Bokode is a tiny dot that can be scanned at a distance of a few metres.
A lot of this video may take a more science-geared mind to understand. In short, it’s smaller, has a greater range and can [...]
Jul 25
New #MUSEFUNCT T-Shirts, Mug & Postcards!
New products in the Newcurator shop with the #MUSEFUNCT word cloud!
Jul 25
ArtFriday: Hazel Dooney
This has been the hardest ArtFriday I’ve ever had to write. Normally, selecting an artist is an easy process or browsing through my social network connections and offering a bit of my own personal interpretation. I don’t pretend to have that curatorial disconnection. I select artists because I love their work. I’m trusting my tastes [...]
Jul 24
Listen to the Gears: 4
We’re in a credit crunch. We all know that. I won’t bore you with the details you already know about budget cuts or the lack of jobs. What I have noticed recently coming through in the media lately is reflection on how people are working around it.
I started the week watching Alan Yentob’s Imagine: Art [...]
Jul 21
Devine Arts Blogging Course (With Coupon!)
Whenever I get a new follower on twitter that says they are in “Marketing”, more often then not, that’s just cause for an instablock. This is the only way to deal with any snake-oil salesmen.
So when I say that Arts Marketing guru Maryann Devine is the real deal, you can trust me on that.
Today, Maryann [...]
Jul 18
Listen to the Gears: 3
There has been an interesting juxtaposition in the podcasts that have caught my notice this week. They have been either about the very latest developments in technology for the future or the preservation of things that are being lost.
APM’s Future Tense talked to NASA about their communications projects. They have already tweeted from space, but [...]
Jul 17
Cross Reality
I’ll try my best to describe this new definition of hyper reality, but understand I’m still trying to get my head around it.
First, reality. Plain old reality. Go outside, go to the park. You understand this concept, yes?
Then there’s virtual reality. Computer-simulated environments. I remember when this meant putting on a heavy plastic welder’s helmet [...]
Jul 17
ArtFriday: David Jensenius
I’ve wanted to do an ArtFriday on a sonic/audio artist for a while now. I felt ArtFriday was becoming too two-dimensionally heavy. Problem being, I confess, is how little I fully understand or comprehend audio art. I just lack the language. Then again, I’m of a generation that can just about remember music videos on [...]
Jul 15
Happy Birthday Nina Simon
Today is the Awesome Nina Simon’s birthday. I’m more than happy to fulfil her birthday wish of answering a question.
How could a museum get better the more people use it?
The question comes from the analogy of the web/museum 2.0 label. Wed 2.0’s “architecture of participation” has more than enough examples, what are the museum equivalents?
Two [...]
Jul 15
The Future of Scholarly Publishing
Quite a few video-heavy post recently. Here is part one and part two of Director of the National Academies Press, Michael Jensen giving a speech to the AAUP. In it, he talks about the environment, digital open access and the radical changes required for scholarly publishing to adapt to the future. All in about 16 minutes. (Via if:book)
Replace [...]
Jul 15
Gonzo Exhibition Design
How could I resist this?
Seb Chan talks about the “exhibition” The Odditorium”.
The Odditoreum’s small exhibition component is 18 ‘odd’ objects that are not currently in storage. Shaun Tan, a celebrated author was invited to write ten of the labels… Seven labels were written by young children (from Stanmore Public School) to inspire other visitors to [...]
Jul 15
Serota/MacGregor
The video of Nick Serota and Neil MacGregor at the LSE is up.
They talk UK politics (I agree with Serota about nobody wanting to be Culture Secretary). They talk about geopolitics with MacGregor clearly pushing his internationalism. Interesting he associates it with London as the City of Diasporas. They talk about the Marbles. I like to [...]
Jul 14
Defining Museums
After all my “What is a Museum’s Most Important Function” routine, Museumist asks a far more fundamental question: “What is a museum?” I think I’ll put forward my own definition.
Civilisation is a wall. Culture is jelly. Museums are nails.
Like it?
Jul 14
Bruce Sterling’s Closing Speech at Reboot 11
I point to the 30 minute mark onwards. Sterling talks about a different materialism, objects as embodied social relationships.
I can’t work out if Sterling could be a museum-saviour or would happily see most of them burnt down. Or both. I now can’t work out why he linked to the “Museum’s most important function” Wordle.
I throw [...]
Jul 10
Art Friday: Kirsty Hall
I first discovered Kirsty Hall in 2007 as she blogged about her daily artwork for The Diary Project. Drawing on a sealed envelope then posting it to herself each day, she charted an entire year.
Both artist and curator, Kirsty tries to capture and embody memory in her pieces. Often working in series, she creates haunting, [...]
Jul 10
Listen to the Gears: 2
Summer holiday season is upon us. What do you see and do when visiting a new place? Guidebooks point us to the highlights of the city or region, but what of other local things?
Smart City podcast discussed spottedbylocals.com. This tourist information blog, described as an ‘atlas of emotion’ is made up of suggestions of what [...]
