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Great guerilla marketing stunt for Museum of Design Atlanta.
For Museum of Design Atlanta's new exhibit opening, WaterDream, we pulled a guerilla marketing stunt in the midtown Atlanta area to create buzz and attract attention to MODA's new location and exhibit.
Tip from @alexdenhaan
VI Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology "Mediating Camera"
September - October, 2012 M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University & N.N.Mikhukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences are happy to invite everybody to VI Moscow International Festival of VisualAnthropology “Mediating camera” at the end of September – beginning October 2012. All films of relevant thematic and shot after 2008 can participate in the Festival Program. Though the main purpose of the festival remained the same - it’s propagation of ideas and products of visual anthropology in humanitarian and pedagogical media and demonstration of its capabilities to the students, scholars and everybody engaged in various socio-cultural activities, organizers realize highest importance of the man behind camera who form the image of the culture on the reel and with special warm welcome movies uncovering this emotional & ethical connection between a man with the camera & culture under his investigation. Besides screenings of experienced and famous authors there will be a special debut competition for those authors who’ve done their first movies. All screenings will be accompanied by discussions with directors & anthropologists. Besides festival program you will be able to participate in thematic seminars and science conference where directors & scholars will be able to share experience of using visual anthropological materials in studies & cultural practices. The deadline for applications and films: March 1, 2012. But we always appreciate your ability to send them as soon as possible. Selection results will be announced not later than on June 1, 2012, we hope this will allow most of selected authors participate in the festival personally. All submitted materials won’t be return, but we promise to keep them in our archive for non-commercial usage only. The Festival Organization Committee is considering the opportunities of partial covering of the participants' expenses. Please, find technical requirements for materials & registration form on our sites. Contacts: E-mail: [email protected]
#Europeana releases an animation to explain Linked Open Data
Press Release What is Linked Open Data? Europeana releases an animation to explain - and a pilot dataset
The Hague, 16 February 2012 For Immediate Release Linked Open Data is gaining traction in the information world right now. Europeana has just launched an animation to explain what it is and why it’s a good thing, both for users and for data providers. Europeana is facilitating developments in Linked Open Data by publishing data for 2.4 million objects for the first time under an open metadata licence - CC0, the Creative Commons’ Public Domain Dedication. Europeana is making data openly available to the public and private sectors alike so they can use it to develop of innovative applications for smartphones and tablets and to create new web services and portals. This support for commercial enterprise in the digital sector is central to Europeana’s business strategy. Metadata that is openly available is re-usable by anyone. Linked to external data sources, such as GeoNames, it’s enriched and can also be re-used by its providers as the basis of improved services to users. The concept of Linked Open Data is attracting Europe’s major national libraries: the Bibliothèque nationale de France recently launched its rich linked data resource, while the national libraries of the UK, Germany and Spain, among many other cultural institutions, have been publishing their metadata under an open licence. The World Wide Web Consortium has also put cultural Linked Data high on its agenda, notably via the reports of the Library Linked Data Incubator Group, co-chaired by Europeana’s Antoine Isaac. Support for Open Data innovation is at the root of Europeana’s new Data Exchange Agreement, the contract that libraries, museums, and archives agree to when their metadata goes into Europeana. The Data Exchange Agreement has been signed by all the national libraries, by leading national museums such as the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and by many of the content providers for entire countries, such as Sweden’s National Heritage Board. The new Data Exchange Agreement dedicates the metadata to the Public Domain and comes into effect on 1 July 2012, after which all metadata in Europeana will be available as Open Data.
The Art of Pho, Interactive motion comic based on the graphic novel by Julian Hanshaw artofpho.submarinechannel.com 8 interactive episodes Submarine Channel recreated Julian Hanshaw's graphic novel The Art of Pho for the web, adding the dimensions of sound, music, animation and poetic interactivity to Hanshaw's exquisitely drawn artwork. The Art of Pho is a moving and surreal story about a lovable creature named Little Blue and his friends. An extraordinary sequence of events brings Little Blue to Vietnam's bustling capital of Ho Chi Minh City, where he learns to master the Art of making Pho (Phở) – Vietnam's ubiquitous national noodle dish. The adventures that ensue set him on a marvelous path of self-discovery. The Art of Pho is a story about friendship, love and discovering your roots. The graphic novel is available via rbooks.co.uk. The Making Of features interviews with Art of Pho creator Julian Hanshaw, and Animation Director Lois van Baarle. Also appearing: Animators Danne Bakker, Nele van Haegenberg, Ferda Surensoy and Alice Eigenraam, Pastelle Music and voice actor Sebastian Prose (Little Blue). CREDITS Art of Pho "Making Of" directed by: Submarine Channel editors Geert van de Wetering & Remco Vlaanderen, Line producer: Coen van Oostrom, Camera: Robijn Voshol, Editor: Niels de Roos. Many thanks to Holland's best comic book store Lambiek.nl, and "Welcome Vietnam" restaurant Amsterdam (best Pho in town) Submarine Channel is made possible with the support of OC&W – Ministry of Culture, Education and Science and The City of Amsterdam (Dienst Maatschappelijk Ontwikkeling).
Nice idea for your exhibits!
There's no need for pencil and paper, chalkboards, or sticky notes when you have Native Union's Play video memo pad. The small gadget has a magnetic back so it can stick to anything made out of metal.
Nice: OLPC (=One Laptop Per Child) netbook!
OLPC XO-3 http://www.netbooknews.com One Laptop Per Child -- a Santa Clara, California-based company -- is showing their latest product, the OLPC XO-3 tablet at CES Unveiled, and we have a hands-on video. It has an 8-inch, 4:3 aspect ratio display, which is actually larger than most 7-inch, 16:9 ratio displays. OLPC took great pains to get the largest display while keeping the tablet a manageable size for young users. The OLPC XO-3 features several ports: USB OTG for connecting peripherals and charging the device, headphone, mic, and a full-sized USB port to transfer files via "sneaker net". It also has both a front and rear-facing camera. The XO-3 runs Linux, and typically has the Sugar interface running on top of Linux. However customers can choose to run other distributions of Linux and even Android. Since internet connectivity isn't always available, OLPC preloads the XO-3 with a lot of educational content like Wikipedia "slices", subsets of Wikipedia for offline consumption. OLPC also makes it easy for 3rd-party developers to create their own offline, pre-loaded educational content. There are several interesting accessories for the XO-3 tablet. A simple silicone cover protects the screen when the tablet is stored, and can be placed on the back of the tablet for storage when the tablet is in use. There was also a prototype case that they plan to equip with a 4-watt solar panel and a thin battery pack. The battery pack can be recharged via the solar panel, and provide power when the tablet is placed in the cover via the 4 screws on the outer edge of the XO-3. Not only are the screws holding the tablet's case together, but they are also electrical contacts that the external battery cover can take advantage of.
Nice project: Fade Away
More information here: http://mattrichardson.com/Fade-Away/
Great! “I went to MoMA and…” is back
MoMA: "Last week, we launched version 2.0 of “I went to MoMA and…”, which began life as an impromptu experiment to see what would happen if we gave visitors an opportunity to share their experiences at the Museum—whatever those might be. We simply provided pencils and note cards and offered to display all the responses in the lobby, and “I went to MoMA and…” exceeded our wildest dreams, yielding an amazing range of beautiful, clever, and heartfelt hand-written and hand-drawn responses. So amazing, in fact, that they soon covered our lobby, filled a website, and became a very popular ad campaign in The New York Times, magazines, and posters throughout the city. People even started to share them online, with cards popping up on popular websites and blogs.
Building on the original project’s success, we have relaunched “I went to MoMA and…,” incorporating a new digital and social platform that will make discovery and sharing an even bigger part of the experience. Of course we realized the project itself was inherently social, but we wanted to improve the submission and sharing process while retaining the simplicity of pencil and paper, which visitors of all ages had so easily embraced.
#Google gift to develop Global Science Gallery Network
Inspiring project:
It is with great excitement and appreciation today that we announce a gift of €1m from Google.org to support the development of a Global Science Gallery Network. The gift is part of over $100M in total charitable giving from Google in 2011.
Since opening in Dublin in February 2008, we have welcomed over 800,000 visitors to 18 multidisciplinary exhibitions, ranging in theme from contagion to the future of fashion. GSGN will be modelled on this successful approach to engaging young people in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). Dr. Michael John Gorman, Founding Director of Trinity’s Science Gallery said: “By offering this transformational support, Google is helping to take Science Gallery to the next level and allow it to scale its impact internationally.” “Our vision is to share Science Gallery’s unique approach to public engagement at the interface of science and art . We’re planning eight Science Gallery hubs around the world by 2020, developed in partnership with leading universities in key cities such as London and Moscow. In each city, we tap into a vibrant local creative community of researchers, designers, artists and entrepreneurs to engage and inspire the next generation of innovators,” said Dr. Gorman.
David Martin, Director, Geo Operations, Google said: “It is fantastic to be able to point to Science Gallery as a very vivid and engaging example of the innovative spirit that we often talk of as critical to Ireland’s future.. Having seen the success of Science Gallery in Dublin, we recognise the potential for other cities and we are very pleased to support the work of the Gallery with this gift.” “Google has been a visionary and dynamic supporter of Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, from the outset and this very generous gift is further testament to their commitment to supporting initiatives which will help us to inspire and engage more people across the globe with science and technology,” added Dr. Gorman. GSGN will be officially launched in July 2012, during Dublin’s tenure as European City of Science.
Check out the other organisations that Google.org have gifted this morning at http://www.google.com/landing/givesback/2011/ and find out more about our 2012 programme here.
#Europeana’s first user-generated exhibition online
The Hague, 15 December 2011
For Immediate Release Europeana’s first user-generated exhibition online Today, Europeana launches its first user-generated virtual exhibition “Wiki Loves Art Nouveau”. Divided into four themes, the exhibition features photographs of Art Nouveau monuments that were taken by people across Europe for the Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest. The contest was organised by the Wikimedia Foundation in over 15 European countries in September 2011. Europeana was an official partner and sponsored the competition’s Art Nouveau category. From 2,700 entries, the Europeana team shortlisted 343 finalists based on quality and composition. Users then voted for their favourites on Flickr, after which the fifty most popular photographs were assembled into a new virtual exhibition. “It’s great to win an international competition and have my photograph displayed in a virtual exhibition, but it is even more rewarding to see that it’s a Hungarian building”, the winner of the contest Csaba Attila Kontár says. The new exhibition complements the existing Art Nouveau virtual exhibition on Europeana that showcases thematic content from different cultural heritage institutions around Europe. “‘Wiki Loves Art Nouveau’ is a great example of how contributions from private individuals can enrich resources held by heritage organisations. In the digital environment, they can take their place alongside the traditional offerings of the institution”, Jill Cousins, Executive Director of Europeana, said.
#Europeana: Open Data – a business model perspective
Open Data – a business model perspective “If cultural heritage organisation do not expose data in ways that digital natives want to use it, they risk becoming irrelevant to the next generation.” Today Europeana publishes its second White Paper, ‘The Problem of the Yellow Milkmaid: a Business Model perspective on Open Metadata’. The paper is the result of a roundtable that brought together leading figures in the cultural heritage sector. The experts examined the opportunities and risks associated with open licensing of their massive datasets, which comprise the record of all publications and cultural artefacts in Europe. The White Paper documents their findings and is published to meet a growing need among libraries, museums, archives and audio-visual collections for a new business model that weighs the current digital opportunities against traditional concerns about ownership and control. It makes specific recommendations to be addressed and concludes that “the benefits of open data sharing and open distribution... outweigh the risks”. This echoes Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission for the Digital Agenda, who got to the crux of the matter in a recent article: “Cultural institutions in Europe are debating the re-use of their digital assets, such as digital copies of public domain works and metadata created by the institution. I urge cultural institutions to open up control of their data, and to make digital copies of public domain works easily accessible and re-usable. This is what is needed today to take full advantage of the new possibilities offered by digital technologies. Giving access to our common heritage, ensuring […] that it is used and benefits society, is at the very heart of cultural institutions' raison d'être.” Interest in open data is growing among policy makers, application and software developers and innovative thinkers in the Linked Open Data/ Semantic Web movement. The European Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe 2020 identifies opening up public data sources for re-use as a key action in support of the digital single market, and proposes adapting the EU’s Public Sector Information Directive which governs the use of data. The Commission’s position is that data created by the public sector should be freely available as raw material for innovative re-use. To do so stimulates the digital economy and thereby creates jobs and provides social and economic benefit. The White Paper features case studies of organisations that are in the vanguard of open data. They include Yale University, the German National Library, Cambridge University and the British Museum. Many other data providers are following in their footsteps: in signing Europeana’s new Data Exchange Agreement, contributors to Europeana’s dataset of 20 million items commit to an open licence in order to provide the raw material for innovation in the sector. The Data Exchange Agreement is the primary element in the Europeana Licensing Framework. The Framework is also published today, and establishes the co-ordinates of Europeana’s position on open data, the public domain, and users’ rights and responsibilities. The goal of the Framework is to standardise rights-related information and practices. Its intention is to bring clarity to a complex area and make transparent the relationship between people who want to use information and the institutions that provide that information to Europeana. “We want to make information about culture ubiquitous – available to people whenever and wherever they want, on whatever device, through apps that we are only just imagining. We want them to be clear about how they can use it – downloading it to their device, incorporating it in their projects, using it for their work,” says Jill Cousins, Executive Director of Europeana. “Facilitating pilot initiatives and prototype apps is a role that Europeana is perhaps uniquely equipped to play in Europe, working within a network that includes many of the world’s greatest memory organisations. A robust licensing framework is important if these prototype apps are to fulfil their potential, and we advocate an open licence so that Europe’s citizens can derive greatest benefit from the cultural heritage collections that they pay to maintain.”
More information can be found at http://www.europeana.eu/.
#Conf: Social Cities of Tomorrow Digital media for collective urban issues
Social Cities of Tomorrow Digital media for collective urban issues International conference & workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Conference: 17 February 2012 Preconference workshop: 14-16 February 2012 Our everyday lives are increasingly shaped by digital media technologies, from smart cards and intelligent GPS systems to social media and smartphones. How can we use digital media technologies to make our cities more social, rather than just more hi-tech? This international conference brings together key thinkers and doers working in the fields of new media and urbanism. Keynote speakers such as Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko will speak about the promises and challenges in this newly emerging and highly interdisciplinary field of urban design. The keynotes will be accompanied by presentations of ‘best practices’ from various disciplines, such as architecture, art, design, and policy. Join us in February 2012 at Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek to explore how urban designers, interface developers, app builders, policy makers, housing coorations, artists, scientists and others can use digital technologies to organise citizen engagement, and to contribute to our social cities of tomorrow. Who should attend Social Cities of Tomorrow? Architects and urban planners interested in the ways digital media technologies shape city life, and how this translates to urban design. Housing cooperations and real estate developers interested in new ways to engage citizens in the co-creation of their living conditions. Artists, designers and media creatives who make work for physical environments and the urban public sphere. Policy makers and local government interested in the potential of digital media technologies for urban issues. Community organisers and social innovators who want to learn more about how digital media and collaborative principles from e-culture can be used for citizen engagement. Call for projects (17 February 2012) The conference programme will feature around ten project presentations: urban design interventions, projects by housing corporations, media artists, citizen initiatives, technology companies, or others. If you’re interested in proposing your project for a presentation during the international conference on 17 February 2012, go to Call for Projects <http://www.socialcitiesoftomorrow.nl/call> . The deadline for submission is 15 December 2011, 17:00 CET Workshop (14 - 16 February 2012) A preconference workshop will be held at ARCAM, Amsterdam for a select, interdisciplinary group of designers, programmers and digital creatives. The aim of this experimental workshop is to bring together local stakeholder organisations, and participants from various professional and national backgrounds to collaborate in real-world social design challenges. All those interested in participating should visit the Workshop section <http://www.socialcitiesoftomorrow.nl/workshop> of this website. Social Cities of Tomorrow International conference & workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Conference: 17 February 2012 Preconference workshop: 14-16 February 2012
fascinating VIDEO: Glore Psychiatric Museum
The Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, MO is one of the most fascinating and most horrifying museums in the country. It is a place that serves as a stark reminder of the brutal punishments we inflicted on people in insane asylums that we deemed to be "mentally ill" often times without just diagnosis or cause. You can see many different replicas and authentic devices used in the various procedures to cure mental illness as well as art work done by the patients, antiques and many other fascinating objects that will keep your attention for hours. For more information or to purchase tickets visit their website: http://www.stjosephmuseum.org/glore.htm Insider Perks is a media company focused on producing high-quality, unbiased travel videos that you can use to help plan your next vacation. If you enjoyed this video, please subscribe to us for future updates and show your appreciation by clicking the "Like" button above.
French National Librarian to chair the Europeana Foundation
The Chief Executive of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bruno Racine, has been elected to chair the Board of the Europeana Foundation, responsible for the EU’s primary cultural heritage showcase, Europeana.eu. Mr Racine takes over from Elisabeth Niggemann, Director of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Dr Niggemann was the Foundation’s first chair from 2007. On taking up the post, Mr Racine paid tribute to the vision and determination of his predecessor, saying, ‘I salute the remarkable work achieved by Elisabeth Niggemann in launching and consolidating Europeana’. His election comes at a significant moment in the development of Europeana. Twenty million cultural artefacts – books, films, sounds and pictures – are now accessible through the portal. The European Commission has just announced its proposals for structural funding of Europeana from 2014-2020 through the Connecting Europe Facility, part of its investment in the Digital Agenda for Europe. Europeana is seen as a key advocate of the value of cultural heritage in digital innovation and creative enterprise and has been running events to develop mobile apps and making large datasets available for Linked Open Data initiatives. Mr Racine will continue to develop Europeana’s strategic role as a facilitator for new ideas in the cultural heritage sector. He sees Europeana as ‘possibly the most important project in the field of culture in the EU. Our success lies in our network. The museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections have come together as a community that is finding new ways to connect users with their patrimony. Access to Europe’s digitised knowledge on the scale that Europeana provides is awe-inspiring.’
WOW: #CloudCities
Interview with Tomas Saraceno:
http://www.vernissage.tv | Interview with artist Tomas Saraceno on the occasion of the installation of his huge solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fur Gegenwart in Berlin. More info: http://vernissage.tv/blog/2011/09/12/tomas-saraceno-cloud-cities-at-hamburger... Tomás Saraceno's work received broader attention in 2009 when he filled the main hall of the Padiglione Centrale in the Giardini at the 53rd Venice Art Biennial. His spider web-like installation created an immersive experience that was fascinating the visitors. With his solo exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin's museum for contemporary art, he takes this experience a step further. Cloud Cities is Tomás Saraceno's largest solo presentation to date. It features approximately 20 of his balloon models in various sizes. But instead of being able only to look at the installation, visitors can actually enter the two largest bubbles, that sit and float like soap bubbles in the former railway hall of the museum. Via ladders they can access the transparent balloons halfway of the structure and then walk or just lie on a flexible, transparent floor. From underneath it looks like they are walking on air. VernissageTV had the chance to document the installation of the works and speak with the artist. In this video we follow Tómas Saraceno in one of the big balloons where he talks about the exhibition and his work. The exhibition opens September 14, 2011 and runs until January 15, 2012. Tomás Saraceno was born in 1973 in Tucuman / Argentina. He lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Saraceno studied architecture but makes no difference between art, architecture, design, and life. He works in different media and is interested in our present and future living environment. He draws inspiration from soap bubbles, dust particles that float in the air, spider webs, and visionary figures such as Buckminster Fuller. Cloud Cities, presented by the National Museums in Berlin, has been made possible by the Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie and sponsored by Dornbracht Installation Projects. Dornbracht Installation Projects: Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin. Interview with Tomás Saraceno, September 9, 2011.
Nice video:
#Ordos Museum by #MAD
This movie tours a remote museum in Inner Mongolia, recently completed by Beijing architects MAD. The polished metal-clad museum is located in Ordos, where 100 private villas by different architects were masterplanned by artist Ai Weiwei back in 2008 -- see all our stories about the project here.
Commission’s Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation
Commission’s Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation 28 October 2011 The European Commission has just adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation, asking Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material and making it available through Europeana. In particular, the Recommendation invites Member States to: - put in place solid plans for their investments in digitisation and foster public-private partnerships to share the gigantic cost of digitisation (recently estimated at 100 billion EUR). The Recommendation spells out key principles to ensure that such partnerships are fair and balanced. - make available through Europeana 30 million objects by 2015, including all Europe's masterpieces which are no longer protected by copyright, and all material digitised with public funding. - get more in-copyright material online, by, for example, creating the legal framework conditions enabling large-scale digitisation and cross-border accessibility of out-of-commerce works. - reinforce their strategies and adapt their legislation to ensure long-term preservation of digital material, by, for example, ensuring the material deposited is not protected by technical measures that impede librarians from preserving it. The Recommendation is an update of a first recommendation adopted in 2006. It takes account of Member States’ progress reports from 2008 and 2010, which show that although progress has been made, more and better action is needed as regards financial resources, quantitative targets for digitisation and solid support for Europeana. It also builds on the conclusions of the Comité des Sages, appointed by Commissioners Kroes and Vassiliou in 2010, on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online.
Useful links: - The Commission' s press release on the Recommendation http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1292&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en - The text of the Recommendation in English, French and German http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm - Europeana, Europe's digital library, archive and museum: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/ - "Comité des Sages" on Bringing Europe's Cultural Heritage Online: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/comite_des_sages/index_en.htm - Member States progress reports can be found on the digital libraries website: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/other_groups/mseg/reports2010/index_en.htm.