Slides for talk as part of New Media and Museums at CUNY, new York, April 22 2014.
"How are cultural institutions using innovations in design to capture and retain public attention? This discussion explores ways in which museums are using digital media to connect audiences with places and one another. Guests include Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art; Sebastian Chan, director of digital and emerging media at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; and Sree Sreenivasan, chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Moderated by the Graduate Center’s Lev Manovich"
7. “digital” should be:
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enabling new forms of scholarship
enabling new forms of public engagement
enabling new forms of exhibition
enabling you to collect the present
enabling a new type of institution
8. “A period of protracted
superdensity. Dystopia
and chaos all at once.
The New Normal.”
Anab Jain
9. ‘families’ or ‘scholars’
‘curriculum focus’ or ‘free-choice learning’
‘experience’ or ‘information and fact’
‘exhibitions’ or ‘collections’
tensions
‘buildings & galleries’ or ‘platforms & media’
23. “a ‘design museum’ sits between
the art museum and the science
museum. it can draw attention to
the processes, choices, human
decisions in the making, not just
the finished object”
26. THE MAKING
OF
A MODERN MUSEUM
BY
ELEANOR G. HEWITT
WRITTEN FOR
THE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON CLUB
1919
“Naturally constant use will
have a tendency to damage,
even destroy certain objects ...
but ... if in that time an artistic
tradition passed on ... the
existence or non-existence of
these objects will not seriously
matter, and during all that
time the Museum will have been
fulfilling its destiny”
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Eleanor Hewitt 1919
27. Poster, "El Dominio del Fuego (The Domain of Fire)", Luis Vega .1972 Poster, "Otis Rush", 1967. Wes Wilson
66. “the future of the computational
humanities is itself going to be
turning to the increasingly
heterogeneous digital fonds, data
sets, data dumps, corpora of
software and images and logs of
transactional data.”
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Trevor Owens, 2014, Library of Congress