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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.
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Fatwa Game
Via guardian.co.uk
Jun 2012
An Iranian student group aims to renew interest in a 23-year-old fatwa against Salman Rushdie. The state-sponsored group is developing a video game based on Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 call for the execution of the Satanic Verses author.
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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.