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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.
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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.