Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. and with it flocks of museum studies / education / exhibit planning graduate interns. I’m always curious when I meet these folks, who are about my age, choosing a different entry path into the museum world. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind.

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Museum Program Student Skills 51

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

And it’s a sweet life to have been able to turn service into a supportive business model. That we don’t have to be chained to the singular story of suffering looping around in our mind. The idea that pleasure is more deeply inherent in service than selfishness thrills me. Doing good is fun. And incredibly fun.

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Fun Feeds Delicious Blogher 69

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers). My model is the shining star. Louis were quick to add, 'It's not a museum.' His is the virus. We loved it.

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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

While AR has a host of applications for the commercial sector ( IKEA is using it to allow customers to place furniture in their home before they buy it and car makers like VW will use AR in their upcoming models), it can also be used to create impactful, substance-filled interactions. The Future of Augmented Reality is Vast and Immeasurable.

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Arts Create Social Application 31

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. Citizen science programs. On the website?

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Museum Web Arts Internet 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Our new catalog and website will be up within the next two months.

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Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

And yet, over the last few years, as the web has unlocked piles of information, a quiet group of math-minded designers are figuring out how to interpret the vast impersonalness of data and make it both beautiful and meaningful. But when it comes to presenting data, most museum folks believe that over-interpretation is necessary.

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Design Data Artist New York 20