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On the Road at the Autry

December 1, 2014by Susan Edwards Leave a comment

The Autry’s Route 66 exhibition was quite a little surprise. Even though I was accompanied by 4 little ones, I managed to get some tidbits of knowledge and my curiosity […]

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history, museums, technology

Serious Play Conference 2014 at USC – roundup

August 1, 2014by Susan Edwards Leave a comment

The Serious Play conference, held last week (July 22-24) at the University of Southern California’s School for Cinematic Arts, is a small conference, focused on educational and otherwise ‘serious’ games. […]

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education, games, museums, research, technology

Joss Whedon on What Makes a Story–It’s All in the Characters

June 6, 2013by Susan Edwards 1 Comment

The museum world has been obsessed with the idea of story and narrative, and I have to admit that I am not exactly sure why. The theme of this year’s […]

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art, education, games, history, museums

Collaboration & Engagement: Museums & the Web 2013 Takeaways

April 27, 2013by Susan Edwards 3 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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Artists as Archivists/Curators

January 6, 2012by Susan Edwards 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 Susan Edwards 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

Convergences

February 25, 2010by Susan Edwards 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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