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Museum Tech
Via museum-id.com
Jun 2012
“Increasingly, museum audiences will experience their collections from a cell-phone or tablet computer a continent away from their physical home,” writes Robert Stein. “Into this landscape, technologists will become more and more necessary to museums of the future.”
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The Domain of .Art
Via e-flux.com
Jun 2012
The visual arts network e-flux announced Wednesday that it’s seeking support for its bid to manage .art, the new top-level internet domain being created by ICANN. If successful, it vows to convene artists and scholars to oversee policies for the domain.
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Online Storytellers
Via vimeo.com
Jun 2012
“We need to turn our message into a story and tell it ourself [online], instead of hoping others tell it for us,” Walker web developer Nate Solas said at MuseumNext last month in Barcelona. Watch the full talk with Solas and New Media director Robin Dowden.
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Preserving Social Media
Via si.edu
Jun 2012
When pondering how to preserve its social media endeavors as historical artifacts, the Smithsonian has a bigger job than most: it runs 143 Facebook accounts, 100 Twitter accounts, 74 blogs, 66 Flickr accounts, and 61 YouTube accounts.
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“Subversively Boring”
Via slate.com
Jun 2012
Sharing its name with a 2010 MoMA show and the documentary we’re screening next month, Pippin Barr’s 8-bit videogame The Artist is Present simulates the experience of waiting in line for a chance to sit down and stare into artist Marina Abramović’s eyes.
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Augmenting Art
Via huffingtonpost.com
Jun 2012
Noting the continuing overlap of art and advertising, ad agency Brilliant After Breakfast says it’s created an augmented reality iPhone app to “hijack” works at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. In one click, put a can of Coke in the hands of a boy in a classic painting.
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Eyeo Online
Via qwikcast.tv
Jun 2012
Going on now at the Walker, the Eyeo Festival—which highlights the convergence of technology and creativity—is webstreaming its talks. Speakers include New York Times graphic editor Amanda Cox, MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli, and others.
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Online Collections Vision
Via intk.com
Jun 2012
Next up after the launch of the new Walker website is a new collections site, says senior new media specialist Nate Solas, which aims to make the art object the center of a cluster of contextual, engaging, and scholarly material.
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Slideshows
The Dark Arts: What to See at Northern Spark 2012
Slideshows
Jun 2012
By anyone’s measure, the inaugural Northern Spark festival last June was a wild success. From dusk to dawn, people discovered the Twin Cities in a new light while making the rounds to some 100 projects by more than 200 artists. This year’s all-nighter, on June 9, features more projects, concentrated in downtown Minneapolis for easier navigation. Here are a few happenings that piqued our interest.