Author Archive
February 1, 2012 by kate
Adobe Museum of Digital Media
Check out the Adobe Museum of Digital Media… the virtual museum of virtual museums… what do you think? http://www.adobemuseum.com/
January 31, 2012 by kate
Creative visualizations of a photographic archive… The Whale Hunt
Jonathan Harris’ The Whale Hunt. I wrote a review of this site, which you can find here: http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/mar/article/view/97
January 31, 2012 by kate
High-Resolution Object Photography
Interesting photography of museum collections…. http://synthescape.com/media/umista/
January 31, 2012 by kate
University of Virginia iPad App
Here is a creative use of iPad affordances–particularly its tangibile functions––for viewing museum objects… let’s look at it today in the seminar.
January 23, 2012 by kate
Week 3: Digital Return
I just came home from an excellent workshop at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History called “After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge“. In our seminar this week I will be talking about some of the themes and debates that emerged as we explored a spectrum of digital projects that […]
January 22, 2012 by kate
Seminar and Tour at Museum of Vancouver
For our second seminar of the semester, we visited the Museum of Vancouver for a discussion and tour of the Neon Vancouver | Ugly Vancouver exhibit, with Curator Joan Seidl, and Curator of Public Engagement and Dialogue, Hanna Cho, who is leading the production of the museum’s virtual exhibit and mobile walking tour ‘The Visible City: […]
January 13, 2012 by kate
Class at the Museum of Vancouver, Jan 17 2012
Reminder to class participants: We wil be meeting at the Museum of Vancouver this week for an introduction the Neon Vancouver | Ugly Vancouver exhibit, and to the emerging virtual exhibit and mobile walking tour The Visible City: Illuminating Vancouver’s Neon. Come with questions and your notebooks, prepared to engage in a discussion with the exhibition […]
December 30, 2011 by kate
Local Museums, Assignment #1
Our first assignment is a short response paper that critically evaluates the use of digital media in a local museum or gallery. Here is a list of possible institutions (other suggestions are more than welcome): Vancouver Art Gallery Surrey Art Gallery Museum of Anthropology at UBC Pacific Museum of the Earth (UBC) Contemporary Art Gallery […]
December 27, 2011 by kate
Indigenous Exhibition in the Age of Cultural Property
I was pretty surprised (and then of course not surprised) to see this story about yet another hipster appropriation of Aboriginal material culture. The Inuvialuit project I will discuss in class today aims to digitally recontextualize Inuvialuit material culture currently in storage at the Smithsonian… including snow goggles. As museums digitize and circulate Aboriginal cultural […]