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Eyeo Online
Via vimeo.com
Jul 2012
Presentations from last month’s Eyeo Festival—dedicated to creativity in the digital realm—are now going online. Held at the Walker, the four-day event included talks by designer Nicholas Felton, curator Paola Antonelli, and information designer Amanda Cox.
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Intimacy and the Internet
Via fastcodesign.com
Jul 2012
Badlands Unlimited, Paul Chan’s digital art company, recently published the first ever group show curated specifically for e-readers. Much of How to Download a Boyfriend, “addresses Internet standards through the lens of romance.”
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GO!
Via gobrooklynart.org
Jul 2012
The Brooklyn Museum of Art has officially launched GO: a community-curated open studio project. Through the initiative, a select number of Brooklyn-based artists will be chosen by members of the public for a December exhibition at BMA.
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Antarctica Street View
Via time.com
Jul 2012
Google’s Street View now offers a look at buildings from Edward Shackleton’s Antarctica. “After more than a century, the structures are still intact, along with well-preserved examples of the food, medicine, survival gear, and equipment used during the expeditions.”
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Map My Museum
via googleblog.com
Jul 2012
Google Maps for Android just added indoor maps for more than 20 US museums. Floor plans available include SFMOMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
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Facebook Farewell
Via hyperallergic.com
Jul 2012
“Social media artist” Man Bartlett has long worked to tweak and subvert the vocabulary of today’s popular online tools. But recent changes at Facebook prompted him to delete his account, an act that, fittingly, he turned into an online performance of sorts.
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ARTtube
Via arttube.nl
Jul 2012
Five European museums, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and M HKA—the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, have teamed up to launch a YouTube-like channel of original videos about art and design.
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OpenCurating
Via lttds.org
Jul 2012
Comprised of interviews, a Twitter conversation, and an event in Barcelona, #OpenCurating aims to explore how the ideas of “open journalism” can play out in the arts—that is, how art can be more fully integrated into our actual and networked lives.
