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December 2009 Blog Posts (10)

Contemporary art and ethnographic museums

Hello everyone,

I'm a Museology student currently writing my thesis about the relationship and collaboration between contemporary art and ethnographic museums. I'm interested about this combination and the different experiment that have been taken place over the past decades, I'm focusing on the Tropenmuseum but, do you guys know about other ethnographic museum that already took the initiative to include contemporary art (whether as part of their collection or to work in a… Continue

Added by Pamela Zuniga on December 28, 2009 at 2:16am — No Comments

Engagement in the Arts among adults in UK

I'm doing my dissertation on the above subject and basing my initial thoughts on the work of the sociologist Bourdieu and his book 'Distinction' which talks about class having a major factor on how we engage with the arts.

There's a great new book out in response to Bourdieus findings by Bennet et al called; Culture, Class, Distinction… Continue

Added by David on December 19, 2009 at 4:02am — 2 Comments

Online Nerds Required

Interested (or know someone) in coming to play with us at ACMI? We have some exciting projects underway and we need web nerds. See here: http://www.acmi.net.au/tender_eoi_fuse.htm Please feel free to forward on to any interested parties!

Added by Michael Parry on December 18, 2009 at 2:28pm — No Comments

Museum Sector & Climate Change Interventions - Workshop Compost

Based on the Hot Science Global Citizens ARC Linkage Project workshop 10-11 December 2009 – preliminary results of 1500 Australian interviews and 600 United States discussed over 2 days.

From the Statistics – Fiona Cameron, Carolyn Meehan, Ben Dibley, Brett Neilson, Bob Hodge, Scott East, Juan Salazar, David Karoly and Ben Parr - Climate Change… Continue

Added by geoff barker on December 16, 2009 at 1:15pm — 2 Comments

On New Beginnings; or How Wikipedia Can Help us all Care for Public Art

Please check out Elizabeth Basille's guest post on the IMA's blog. She's an IUPUI Museum Studies graduate student.

On New Beginnings; or How Wikipedia Can Help us all Care for Public Art.

Added by Richard McCoy on December 11, 2009 at 8:28am — No Comments

I have posted a short piece over at my site on Global Climate Change with a link to an important document by Brett Parris of World Vision Australia. I conclude by asking "What will your museum do?" I…

I have posted a short piece over at my site on Global Climate Change with a link to an important document by Brett Parris of World Vision Australia. I conclude by asking "What will your museum do?" I have cross posted this at MANexus Continue

Added by Des Griffin on December 10, 2009 at 9:34am — 1 Comment

SFMOMA: What hapens when the head if IT goes on holiday

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Added by Paul Reynolds on December 10, 2009 at 6:28am — No Comments

Museu Picasso on Twitter @museupicasso

Yes!!! We have finally joined Twitter, the social network that we needed to complete the first phase of our Social Media presence, launched in May this year. Some of you are maybe wondering, but, weren't you already on Twitter? And others may ask why weren't you? Or even, why are you now?

I have answers for all these questions (sort of). Please continue reading… Continue

Added by Conxa Rodà de Llanza on December 8, 2009 at 5:13am — 1 Comment

Comfort and the museum visitor experience, part 2

Here's the second part of the series, featuring exhibit elements. For the background on this workshop, read this… Continue

Added by Stephanie Weaver on December 7, 2009 at 3:51am — No Comments

Making music is a labour of love, making money is a by-product.

In a perfect world we would give all our music away for free and survive on touring revenue, merchandising and licensing income. Alas this is not always possible. In order to eat we have to sell a few CD’s. The good news is that much of our catalog has been released under this creative commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 We have made many Antiqcool songs free to download for a reason, we want you to… Continue

Added by Pete Smith on December 2, 2009 at 1:25pm — No Comments