Monthly Archives: January 2010

Jan 23

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PlateaKnit

An Xiao’s @Platea project has always been a source for interesting collaborative art over various social media networks. I’ve been involved in a couple.
They’re up to Project VI now, what they are calling PlateaKnit. It’s being lead by one-time ArtFriday alumnus Ingrid Murnane.
Using the twitter hashtag #plateaknit, “instructors” call out instructions using the abbreviations set [...]

Jan 19

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Google UNESCO World Heritage Streetview

More partnerships from Google to work with with museums and heritage. This time working with UNESCO to provide Google Streetviews of World Heritage sites.

Go to google.com/unesco to find out more and use the Google Map app.

Jan 18

Jan 18 4 comments

MacGregorism: A History of the World

The first programmes of “A History of the World in 100 Objects” kicked off today. The BBC Radio 4 flagship of the project began with the mummy of Hornedjitef. I agree with The Attic’s take that this is clearly a very personal project for Neil MacGregor as it seems to be the biggest cross-media platform [...]

Jan 07

Jan 07 3 comments

Museum Burglary Game

Dundee based games developer Gentlemen of Fortune are working on a game called Quick as Thieves, a “Physics based Action-stealth game”, which means you play a comedy-style burglar with a swagbag robbing a museum blind. As you can see, everything and anything can go into the swagbag. The bag gets bigger and can be used [...]

Jan 04

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The First Annual Newcurator Awards

This time last year, I launched newcurator.com. Since then, this site has developed into many different areas, expanded into some very interesting subjects and has had its readership grow beyond all expectations. To mark this occasion of newcurator’s first birthday, I want to thank all the people who commented, followed me on twitter and facebook, [...]

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- Day Against DRM, May 4, 2010 | Musematic 2010/03/09
  “The Day Against DRM will unite a wide range of projects, public interest organizations, web sites and individuals in an effort to raise public awareness to the danger of technology that restricts users’ access to movies, music, literature and software; indeed, all forms of digital data. Many DRM schemes monitor a user’s activities and report what they see to the corporations that impose the DRM.
- The Burke Museum Blog: Your local museum: coming to a pub near you? 2010/03/09
  It’s been six months since the first “Burke Museum Trivia Night” at the College Inn Pub and so far it has proven to be a great way to connect the museum to new audiences and inspire a sense of excitement about the natural and cultural world amongst the people who come to the bar to play trivia.
- Contest-Making the Case for Preservation Action to Save Collections | Musematic 2010/02/27
  Here’s how the contest will work:
  1. Select one target audiences (i.e. decision makers; general audience; and/or library/archive/museum staff) to persuade with a 2-minute speech to support preservation and take preservation action. Selection multiple target audiences, one 2 minute speech per audience.
  
  2. Write a short, compelling, and easy-to-understand argument that will persuade your target audience. Send in one 2 minute speech per target audience
- Boston getting a pop-up design museum, founded by designers - Core77 2010/02/27
  Most museums are founded by wealthy philanthropists, and you'd be hard-pressed to find one founded by designers; the amount of capital required to erect or purchase a building and subsequently fill it is simply beyond the reach of most of us Pantone-pushers.
  
  But that's not stopping product designers Sam Aquillano and Derek Cascio, two Massachusetts-based guys who work for Bose and Philips, respectively. Driven by love for their home state, the pair are planning a sort of pop-up version of a museum pushing Massachusetts-based design:
- Museum 2.0: Responsiveness is the Most Important Part of Participation 2010/02/27
  When it comes to visitor participation in cultural institutions, staff focus too much on #1 and not enough on #2. There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and... nothing happens.
  
  Museum professionals tend to think this is OK because they think of the contributory act as the important part of the participation. But without responsiveness, you have a broken feedback loop. The response is what makes participation useful and meaningful to future users, including participants themselves.