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March 18, 2012 by claude

Singing Trees in the Silence of the Lands

This seems to me an improvement on the Silence of the Lands program…this is for you Tyler… Singing trees, 2 min. (Bernie Krause on FORA TV)
February 19, 2012 by claude

Week #7 seminar / When museums go digital: redefining the space of the exhibit

virtual-exhibits-virtual-museums In this week’s seminar, I will be starting my presentation by giving a brief overview of some of the different forms and functions that virtual exhibits can take, illustrating these with examples. I will also present the highlights of a paper I wrote last semester on the digital affordances used to curate a virtual […]
January 24, 2012 by claude

Publicity and the museum

Brown, Michael F. (2009) Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property. In Whose Culture? In J.Cuno (Ed.) The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities (pp. 145-164). Princeton: Princeton University Press. I align myself with most of Brown’s positions in this essay. In particular, Brown remarks that vested interest or conflicts can […]
January 23, 2012 by claude

The Human Fish : the history of exotic displays…

Clifford (1997) mentions “the long history of ‘exotic’ displays in the West. This history provides a context of enduring power imbalance within and against which the contact work of travel, exhibition, and interpretation occurs. An ongoing ideological matrix governs the understanding of ‘primitive’ people in ‘civilized’ places.” (p. 197). He then describes the famous pseudo-exotic […]
January 21, 2012 by claude

MOMA in The Colbert Report

I just finished reading “Museum as Contact Zones” and later watched The Colbert Report  in which Carrie Rebora Barratt, the Associate Director for Collections and Administration at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses historical American art. What she shows, discusses and says seems to me directly related to the issues in Clifford’s article. Notice that she explains how the […]