The New Yorker Wades into “Curator” Confusion
Tag: food for thought (Page 5 of 6)
Go and read Suse Cairns‘s fascinating exploration of native digital objects and art, and how museums can think about them and deal with them. Bonus interview with Tom Woolley, New Media Curator at the UK National Media Museum. (He’s responsible for a Life Online gallery that has a constant video of memes on it. If that’s not a cool job, I don’t know what is.)
Initial reaction: OMG COOOOOOOL.
More measured response from Max Van Balgooy of Engaging Places: Google Launches World Wonders Project.
In case you haven’t seen this, Ed Rodley at Thinking about Museums has had a really, really fascinating, thoughtful, and thought-provoking series of discussions lately.
He’s playing out a thought experiment that starts with a basic premise: how would you create a museum from scratch? That is, how would you incorporate all of our current thinking about community, digital access, transparency, radical trust, etc., into a brand new institution? Is it possible to do things right from the start, or will we fall into the same traps?
Here are his posts so far:
Making a museum from scratch: Part One
Making a museum from scratch: Part One – inspirational readings
Making a museum from scratch: Part Two
Making a museum from scratch: Part Two – inspirational readings
Check out this TED talk by Joshua Prince-Ramus. He and his architectural firm have designed a number of cultural spaces through a process he calls hyper-rationality, by listening to the needs of the space and providing the flexibility in which to serve the public. I was particularly struck by his responsiveness to the social aspects of these culture centers – one of which is a museum – and by the way in which architecture was not the star of the show, but in service to the greater mission.
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