Speaking of Nick Poole, seems he wants to do a Britian-centric version of previous Wikipedia projects such as Wikipedia Loves Art.
Britain Loves Wikipedia. Click to find out more details, but the idea is to get 10-20 UK museums involved. I would love to see this be successful. I don’t think enough UK Museums are getting [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Nov 28
Britain Loves Wikipedia
Nov 27
Slack Space Handbook
I often come back to the idea of “slack space”. A term coined by artists in Margate who turned empty commercial properties into art exhibition space. Many other terms have cropped up to describe this process. Many similar projects have appeared. I’m not sure there is a single former-Woolworth’s in the country that hasn’t had [...]
Nov 27
Museums and Google
Back in April, I wondered why there wasn’t some efforts by Google to work with museums. They had put some ultra-high definition photos from the Prado Museum into Google Earth in January, but that seemed to be an exercise in photographic technologies and some much needed publicity for one of Google’s products.
I mean, can you [...]
Nov 26
Let’s Get Some Museopunk RAGE Going
Fairness and justice for museum workers – A Facebook group dedicated to the museum workers of both the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum. They’re into the tenth week of their strike action to demand the same basics as other federal workers.
Join the group. Show your support.
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Art Fag City has two [...]
Nov 24
How Wrong Was I?
Well. I admit. I’ll throw my hands up and say I was wrong. Several times I have said David Beckham would be the future of curating through great use of his celebrity and wide appeal of his name.
Turns out, its Shaquille O’Neal.
I’d be very disappointed if every label didn’t include RANDOM ACTS OF SHAQNESS.
Nov 24
3D Scanning with a Webcam
I knew that 3D scanning would be right around the corner. I thought the first 3D scanners would be something like a cupboard-sized MRI machine.
This should be a valuable lesson. There will always be a software solution before a hardware approach.
This video comes via Futurismic. Cambridge University people have come up with 3D scanning using [...]
Nov 23
GLYPH – Intro
I started writing this as part of NaNoWriMo. I missed a few days because of travel and illness and became so far behind the daily requirement that I basically gave up on hitting 50,000 by the end of November. What I have done is about 11k words and I’ve hit a bit of a wall [...]
Nov 14
“Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones”
INCOMING GUEST POST/PLUG FROM THE ATTIC.
Hi! My name is Jenny, and I’d like to extend to you all an invitation to attend the Leicester University School of Museum Studies’ PhD Symposium “Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones”. Organised by the PhD community here at the world’s oldest department for Museum Studies, it [...]
Nov 13
Guest Post: Maria Mortati
Community Museum
In “Take Your Time, Olafur Eliasson”, Madeline Grynsztejn said: “The context between the cultural and commercial spheres over thinking and doing is one of the defining tensions in contemporary Western society. And the museum is the knife-edge location where this context is being played out, for there the conditions that determine or influence our [...]
Nov 12
NOT WITCHCRAFT: 1
The latest version of Museum Identity Magazine is up. You can get the digital edition here or email greg(at)museum-id.com to sign up to the mailing list for your free print copy.
You will also see the first of a regular column written by me. Greg Chamberlain said I could write about anything I wanted. So I’ve [...]
Nov 10
Several Interruptions
The Arts Council has a new website. Good thing really as I remember the last one being very difficult to get around. Now, they’ve gone for something feeling more like an arts magazine approach. It was clearly time for an image change. The Arts Council has been taking a bit of a kicking recently in [...]
Nov 09
Guest Post: Megan Blankenship
Recently, I read an article about arts engagement, and a quote the author plucked from a poem by Aleda Shirley struck me as appropriate in describing the precarious position the museum assumes when exhibiting work that could or does stir up controversy. Shirley, in The Rivers Where They Touch, writes “Falling backwards from his boat, [...]
Nov 09
I’m Back
Konnichiwa. I have return from the Island Fortress Hideaway. It was very pleasant week all round.
For most of that week, I found myself writing a good few thousand words of a novel for NaNoWriMo. You can see my profile here. Add me as a writing buddy if you’re doing it too. I know, I am [...]
Nov 07
Guest Post: Jeff Doyle
MacGuffins
Museums have been around in the real world for a while and a rich set of understandings and expectations have grown up around them. But the web is still something like a western boom town. We’ve tossed up some buildings overnight but we have yet to live in them for very long. Some are just [...]
Nov 06
Art Friday: Haley Nagy
Describing herself as both artist and procrasinator, Haley Nagy made an immediate impact on me with The Nagy Family Cookbook, a beautifully evocative artist’s book.
Working in mixed media, with a real feel for using encaustic, Haley creates captivating work often addressing contemporary issues such as homelessness and cultural rituals like birthdays. The crux of her [...]
Nov 04
Guest Post: Noell Wolfgram Evans
Participating Contributors
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.” Marcel Duchamp
Say what you will about his art, Duchamp was right in his idea of turning spectators [...]
Nov 02
Museopunk Monday
For one week only, Museopunk Thursday will move to a Monday. There’s still lots going on over on Museopunk.ning.com and we are now up to 63 members which is brilliant. This week:
Introductions continue: please do chime in if you haven’t yet.
Jeffrey_r wants to know Who’s on the Twitters? as do the rest of us.
There is [...]
Nov 01
Guest Post: Vanessa VanAlstyne
“I want to be in New York City,” said my friend Paul Slocum, who ran a predominant new media gallery in Texas called And/Or. I’m definitely thinking about what he just said. No one is born in a small market that doesn’t dream about being able to move to New York or Los Angeles and [...]
