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Collaboration & Engagement: Museums & the Web 2013 Takeaways

April 27, 2013by jolifanta 2 Comments

Games, curation, design thinking, more games, crowdsourcding, theater, humor, and 3D printing. These were some of the topics of great salons, discussions, workshops, and sessions, at this year’s Museums & […]

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art, education, museums, technology
Christopher Williams, Detail from 'Source', 1981

Artists as Archivists/Curators

January 6, 2012by jolifanta 3 Comments

I recently went to see the exhibition Under the Big Black Sun at MOCA, one of the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions on view around Los Angeles, and was struck by […]

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art, history, los angeles, museums
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Twitter archive Nov 16-24

November 27, 2011by jolifanta Leave a comment

sorry for long list – Insane amounts of MCN2011 Tweets included below 24 Nov Shitty @hertz rental car, insulation coming out from windshield. yfrog.com/nz3iqvuj 22 Nov @sluggernova @josephgruber @exposyourmuseum @5easypieces […]

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museums, technology
The De Menils

Convergences

February 25, 2010by jolifanta Leave a comment

Yesterday, I saw Lawrence Weschler speak at the Getty about “convergences” a phenomenon he explores in his new book Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences. In his lecture, Weschler […]

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art, museums, things I like
Sarah Palin

Portrait of Sarah Palin

November 16, 2009by jolifanta 2 Comments

Sarah Palin is all over the news today for some reason. And somehow I came across this magnificent portrait of her in the L.A. Times, originally taken by Brian Adams […]

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art, history, pop culture, things I like
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5 types of user experience, by John Falk

September 19, 2009by jolifanta 3 Comments

This week the OCLC held a Digital Forum West mini conference/symposium at the Getty. I noticed that John Falk was the keynote speaker and weaseled my way in to see […]

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education, museums, research, technology
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Visual Literacy for College Freshmen

September 16, 2009by jolifanta 1 Comment

At U Penn this year, incoming Freshmen are taking a twist on the old classic summer reading project. Instead of reading a novel together, they are looking at a painting, […]

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