Channel Newcurator: An Xiao and AR
Two videos from the Awesome An Xiao. Here she plays with augmented reality toys at the Onishi Gallery’s Louvre-DNP Museum Lab exhibition. Louvre-DNP Museum Lab: Augmented Reality Dish from An Xiao on...
View ArticleGuest Post: You, Yes YOU Can Be a Curator Too!* (*Not Really)
Guest post from N. Elizabeth Schlatter. Follow her on twitter. In preparation for a lecture in early June at the National Museum of Iceland, I had a minor epiphany—that the spectrum of what can be...
View ArticleGlyph 003
Every Monday, I’ll be posting snippets of a story I wrote called Glyph. It’s rough and unfinished but should be entertaining. Here’s part three. Talisman knocked twice on the large door of the meeting...
View ArticleGeofencing the Museum
A new term came up on my radar; Geofencing. Location aware software for mobile apps are getting more common and more complex, but still function upon the proximity to single GPS points. The problem...
View ArticleNC Digest 30 June, 2010
To BP or Not to BP? Should Art Museums Accept Polluted Sponsorship? – CultureGrrl Cultural institutions in Great Britain and the U.S., which had until now relied on BP, the British oil company, as a...
View ArticleNC Digest 1 July, 2010
About Dbasr | dbasr Dbasr is a free, open-source content management system. It’s designed to allow musicians and other rich media artists to build, customize, manage and update their own website and...
View ArticleGlyph 004
Every Monday, I’ll be posting snippets of a story I wrote called Glyph. It’s rough and unfinished but should be entertaining. Here’s part four. Chapter Two Duncan had kept a meticulous record of every...
View ArticleTalking Curatorial-ly
Guest post from N. Elizabeth Schlatter What does “the curatorial” mean? I’ve been wrestling with this concept since I first read (and re-read) Maria Lind’s essay for Artforum from October 2009. Lind’s...
View ArticleEnd of the MLA: Will You Miss It?
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt MP has proposed abolishing the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. “Government support for museums, libraries and archives will continue”. The proposed wind-up...
View ArticleGlyph 005
Part five of a story I wrote called Glyph. It’s rough and unfinished but should be entertaining. You can search for the other parts using the search box in the top right hand corner. His memory was...
View ArticleGuest Post – N. Elizabeth Schlatter: To Be A Curator/Content Strategist
In July and August, Erin Kissane posted on her website incisive.nu a thought-provoking series about content curation, from the vantage point of a content strategist. [See her concluding post for links...
View ArticleA True Cultural Protest
Now is the time. 15% cut to the national museums over the next four years. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s budget reduced from £1.9bn to £1.1bn as well as well as 41% reduction in admin...
View ArticleAn Experiment in Open Art History – Smarthistory.org on Kickstarter
The following is a guest post from Dr. Steve Zucker, co-founder of Smarthistory along with Dr. Beth Harris. He is also chair of History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute. You can follow him on...
View ArticleCuratorial Magick
You are in a room and it is full of Stuff. Piles of it in no discernible order. You are now told that this Room of Stuff is your life. What to do first? Tidying up wouldn’t be a bad plan. So you try to...
View ArticleMy Dutch Reckoning
It’s been ten days since I landed in Amsterdam. I cannot explain how incredible and inspiring the experience has been so far. I’m living in a cool place, I’m working with great people, I’ve seen...
View ArticleDutch Discovery: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Last Saturday, I went to go to the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam. I had to take the chance to go see other parts of the Netherlands and the proper public transport system here makes that easy. They had...
View ArticleDutch Discovery – World Press Photo 2011 at De Oude Kerk
I am not a religious person. For me, religion come from the same root word as legislation, meaning rules, law, a code. I feel I don’t subscribe to a particular religion, but I have my own spirituality....
View ArticleYour Name in Lights Launches 1st June
Wednesday 1st June marks the start of the Holland Festival and the launch of John Baldessari’s YOUR NAME IN LIGHTS. But there’s still time! Sign up, tell your friends, add their names and share it over...
View ArticleHire me?
As many of you may know, I’ve been in Amsterdam for the last couple of months. I’m about half way through my six-month stay here. It’s been amazing, inspiring, thoughtful, exciting and educational...
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