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Museum of Computer Art “MOCA is one of the most heavily-trafficked, comprehensive, frequently-updated and respected computer art museums on the Web. It tries to keep abreast of the latest and best in computer art. Both beginning and advanced artists frequently visit here, if only to see what the competition is doing. We expect it is […]

Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, senior speakers with extensive experience in Web development review and analyze the issues and impacts of networked cultural and natural heritage. Together, we look ahead to the transformation of communities and organizations.

by eric at 12:46 pm 2006-01-11 Filed under: * Museum Blogs 6 Comments

From Rhizome.org: A tube of paint was once new media. And remember the shock of those newfangled Daguerreotypes? Theorists have speculated wildly about what drives humans to crave newness, but the truth is that all media age. And while some are still prompted to use the phrase ‘new media,’ art has been made under this […]

Mirren Iturioz is a member of Arteleku, a public art centre under the auspices of the Culture Department of the Regional Government of Gipuzkoa. The centre initiates and promotes both theoretical and practical interdisciplinary ideas and is open to national and international artists, as well as to anybody interested in extending their knowledge about art […]

From 1981 till 1990 Catherine David was Curator for the Museum of Modern Arts Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. From 1990 on she worked at the national gallery Jeu de Paume in Paris and curated a number of international shows. She was headcurator for Documenta X in 1997 and worked at the Witte de With […]

In her book ‘The Museum in Transition‘, Hilde Hein relfects on the contemporary state of “museums” from a philosophical perspective. She seems to be nostalgic towards a former, more autonomous state of the museum and criticizes a current more market based discourse which seems to prevail. How laudable this latter stance is, she seems to […]

Digital Display New “New Media” museum curators face and create new standards Wednesday, March 8, 2000

ABSTRACT “Interfacing the Digital” presents work at the Walker Art Center focusing on new physical interfaces, particularly for the presentation of digital art. Some examples include a freestanding revolving door portal for the exhibition Art Entertainment Network; a telematic table resulting from an international design competition; and a “temporary autonomous sarai” developed collaboratively by the […]

Chrsitiane Paul also referred to this diagram by Saul Albert. It’s from the Users Guide for Adrian Ward’s software “Auto-Illustrator”: “So what you have here are different intervention points. And we might look at the idea of basics as basically modules of media production systems and tools, which is one filter to apply to it.” […]