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Artists Reflecting China: Struggles with Modernity
Field Guide
Apr 2006
For a traveler to China, one of the most striking things about the country are the dramatic changes taking place everywhere. As you drive through the cities there are countless enormous cranes hovering overhead. As our Shanghai guide, David, said, “ the crane is the national bird of China”- ha! As we moved through contemporary art galleries, one of the themes that emerged from a lot of the work that we…
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New feature on the Walker Channel.
Media Lab
Apr 2006
We have some new material on the Walker Channel. Video Jukebox, videos from the Spencer Nakasako installation in the OPEN-ENDED exhibition.
Nakasako and a group of students at the Vietnamese Youth Development Center in San Francisco, the Bronx Museum Teen Council, and the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council hit the streets, gathering and recording spontaneous responses. Gallery visitors can also…
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I missed the STEVE workshop.
Media Lab
Mar 2006
Due to some scheduling conflicts at Museums and the Web this year we missed the workshop about STEVE, a tagging project for art museums, or to expand the acronymn, Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement. I’ve been scrounging around on the internet for notes on the presentation. All I found was this mention on the Powerhouse museum’s blog fresh + new. Luckily Gnter posted a more…
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So what is a “blog carnival”?
Media Lab
Mar 2006
I did some looking into blog carnivals after hearing a talk by Daniel Mosquin from the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden about engaging different communities with them. From reading on blogcarnival.com I found this:
A Blog Carnival is a particular kind of blog community. There are many kinds of blogs, and they contain articles on many kinds of topics. Blog Carnivals typically collect…
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Science Buzz, Best in the Web 2006.
Media Lab
Mar 2006
The excellent weblog Science Buzz created by Bryan Kennedy and the team at the Science Museum of Minnesota won Best in the Web and Most Innovative Site last night. I’m not going to go into covering all of the winners here because they are covered on the conference site, but there was another Minnesota connection. The Minnesota Historical Societies online store won best in the E-Services category.
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MoMA talks about their new online store (notes)
Media Lab
Mar 2006
Allegra Burnette and Lyde Spann discussed the redesign of the MoMA’s online store. With the reopening of the museum and the holiday season traffic to the store site and MoMA.org was up significantly but only 46% of users to the store came from MoMA.org so there was some opportunity to increase cross traffic.
They mentioned a product called HitBox from Webside Story that was helpful for measuring…
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PDA Tour (notes)
Media Lab
Mar 2006
Sonja Hyde-Moyer presented a PDA tour project that she worked on as a project manager while at the Museum of Science. The tour was for the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibition. PDAs were rented to visitors at a price of $4 for children and $6 for adults. Antenna Audio worked with the museum to produce this PDA tour and to provide the hardware.
2) Extended visit. Personalized web pages…
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The Online Wonder Wall (notes)
Media Lab
Mar 2006
The virtual Wonder Wall is collaborative Q&A software, developed at Michigan State University, unfortunately it ran into a script error and locked up during the demo but I imagine it is still being worked on since they are “ramping up” to sell it right now. Licenses cost $500 per year per 50 seats, so it’s relatively inexpensive.
Wonder Wall is used by Michigan 4H Children’s Garden to connect…