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April 3, 2012 by kate
April 10th Symposium: New Media and the Museum––Illuminating Vancouver’s Neon Heritage
March 29, 2012 by kate
Bioluminescence exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
Tyler! I think that there might be a comparative bioluminescence exhibit review in your future… http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/arts/design/creatures-of-light-at-american-museum-of-natural-history.html?hp and http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/03/30/arts/design/20120330-CREATURES.html?ref=design
March 27, 2012 by kate
Social Media and the ‘filter bubble’
This is the TED talk that Bardia referenced in his presentation today: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
March 13, 2012 by kate
Thinking about “The Visible City” – Looking at other apps
Hi everyone, I am looking forward to discussing the MOV’s “The Visible City” mobile app prototype with you today. I wanted to remind you to take a look at some other recent Canadian apps highlighted by CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network) here; while apps from the AGO, the McCord Museum in Montreal, and the Canadian […]
February 27, 2012 by kate
AR: ‘Never Stop Playing’?
I saw this commercial on TV over the weekend and thought that it captured an aspect of Augmented Reality applications that I find troubling. The ad’s protagonist exists in an empty city, only noticing other ‘players’ of the game he is involved in. “Never Stop Playing”, is the tag line–but seeing the ad, and watching […]
February 20, 2012 by kate
Virtual Museums
Many thanks to Claude for her great synthesis of this week’s readings on virtual museums, and for many excellent questions for discussions. I am looking forward to Tuesday’s class. In the meantime, I wanted to link to a few examples of virtual museums that are worth spending some time looking at and thinking about in […]
February 5, 2012 by kate
Digital Cultural Heritage: access, documentation, and the intangible…
Abungu (2010) paints a picture of the contemporary museums in post-colonial Africa as working to move away from “the old style of exhibition (eg. Dusty objects hidden in glass cases)” (181), and to address the changing face of African society that museums now represent. Part of decolonization, she argues, is a move away from a […]
February 2, 2012 by kate
OpenMOV
I had a good chat with Bardia today about his final project. One of the resources that we discussed is the MOV’s OpenMOV archive, which lets you search the contents of the museum’s collection. If you are trying to imagine how to involve the MOV, neon signs, or other objects from the collection into your […]
February 1, 2012 by kate
YouTube as ‘Social Media’
Hi everyone, thanks for your great comments. Jeremy raises an important question about the definition of social media, and the extent to which platforms like YouTube constitute social media. You may have seen this video before, and if not I think it is a fun way to think about the social effects and relationships that […]