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The starting point for the collaborative efforts between The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and The Walker Art Center are a set of assumptions about technology and communication, the nature and value of museum information, and the role that museums play in the modern world.

Voices: Bringing Multimedia Museum Exhibits to the World Wide Web

ArtsConnectEd: Collaboration in the Integration and Acces to Museum Resources.

Arjen Mulder on the art of open systems during the DEAF04 symposium: “Feelings are always local“.

…on New Media Curating

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Rhizome Digest Date: 11.05.04 From: Gloria Sutton Subject: Exhibiting New Media Art (Part 1 of 2)

Good example of research performed at the end of the nineties around the new function a museum could/should play. This paper was presented at ‘Museums and the web: an international conference’ in Los Angeles (March 16-19, 1997).

The following text is a projectdescription of The Kingdom, by Dora Garcia. The kingdom tries to envision a possible future for the museum that might radically differ from the museum we know today. I give some quotes that explicitly adress the future of the museum. You can find the rest of the text here on […]

Two quotes from a book by Immanual Wallerstein on ‘The Uncertainties of Knowledge’ that I’ve been reading. They are not directly related to this blog but they surely will be in the back of my mind when working on it.