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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
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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

Managing Expectations in Museums

April 24, 2009by jolifanta 1 Comment

Following on the Museums and the Web conference last week, Nina Simon made an excellent observation in a great blog post Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their […]

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art, education, museums

Art in the Crack of the LAC (MA)

April 5, 2009by jolifanta 1 Comment

Went to LACMA’s late Night Art event last night. They made very good use of the space between the Ahmanson and BCAM buildings, behind the Urban Light installation—a space I […]

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art, history, los angeles, museums, pop culture
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Elias Sime :: eye of the needle, eye of the heart

April 3, 2009by jolifanta Leave a comment

Made a quick visit to Santa Monica Museum of Art yesterday to visit a friend who works there and was taken aback by their wonderful exhibition of work by Ethiopian […]

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art, los angeles, museums

Giant Robot Post-It Show

December 19, 2008by jolifanta 1 Comment

This is a brilliant idea for an art show: commission a slew of local artists to create little drawings on Post-It notes, stick them to your gallery wall, and charge […]

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art, los angeles, museums, things I like

Measuring “Conversion” on Museum Web Sites

April 17, 2008by jolifanta Leave a comment

At the Museums & the Web 2008 conference last week, I talked to some people about a different idea of “conversion” for museum Web sites–as distinct from the meaning used […]

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museums, technology

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