The Information Superabundance. It flows all around us and drowns us. It saturates our increasingly mobile computers. It follows us around through our increasingly powerful phones. It engorges our still-infuriating television. It invades more and more space.
It managed to turn the music industry inside out. It turned the film industry into a paranoid delusional inmate. [...]
Author Archives: Pete
You Are Not a Curator
Test Post
Just a quick test post using the new wordpress client for my Android phone.
This opens all kinds of new possibilities.
PlateaKnit Results
As part of the PlateaKnit project, I threw out this instruction. I called it the “Newcurator Knitting Interlude”.
k1p2k1p3k2 p2k2p1k1p1 k1p3k1p3k1 p2k3p2k1p3 k1p1k1p1k1 p3k2p1k2p2 k4p1k1p3k1 p1k3p2k1p4 k1p3k2p1k1
K stands for Knit, P stands for Purl and the number after is the amount of times. This therefore translates into 0s and 1s. so the first five things work [...]
Back Up
January has been a rather quiet month here at newcurator so there’s plenty to catch up on. Most of last week I had that wonderful seasonal sickness that turned simple thought processes into mammoth tasks.
Then, all of the bandwidth was used up. Bizarre really. Normally, each blog post brings in a predictable amount of traffic. [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Museum Future Predictions
The Centre for the Future of Musuems made five predictions about the museum of the future. They said Green, Personalised, Comfortable, Interactive and Flexible. Read the article to get the explanation of each one (especially “Interactive”. They means something a bit more advanced. I think a better word would have been something from the Nina [...]
Google Goggles
I”ve been playing with the new Android app by Google called Goggles. The name’s a little daft and means I’m rereading every mention of it to make sure I haven’t confused the spelling.
I am very impressed with this. You take a picture, its gets scanned with something that looks like an edge-detect and it seraches [...]
British Museum Advert on Korean Air Boeing
Via The Attic. Just leaving this here as opposed to delicious or tumblr. Great time lapse video that stirs up a lot of thoughts.
Nonprofitable Museum Actions
Museo Unite put the question out there.
Here’s the challenge: how can museums (and museos) make money enough to pay salaries while furthering their mission? “If you build it, they will come” is not working. We need to do more. Any ideas on how we can put the profit back in nonprofit?
Mission, as they rightly point [...]
Manly Curating?
Wait… what?
So, the Arts of the Samurai exhibition at Met has an increased ratio of male viewers. Maybe because of the interest in a period in history when masculinity was measured upon the integrity of one’s code of honour and that this culture appeared almost on the other side of the world.
Apparently not. This guy [...]
Britain Loves Wikipedia
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
