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Archive for June 2010

Photographing visitors in your museum

Yesterday we were discussing the problem of photographing visitors in museums on Twitter. This post was the reason: At Too Many Museums, It’s Check Your Camera at the Door, June 14 | By David Saxe So, I asked on @museummedia May visitors take photographs in your museum?

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Chris Dercon has been appointed the new Director of Tate Modern

Tate announced today that Chris Dercon, Director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich, has been appointed the new Director of Tate Modern, and will take up the appointment in spring 2011. Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate said: “Chris Dercon has made some outstanding exhibitions in Munich and has

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Guggenheim and YouTube Seek Budding Video Artists

For artists, being included in a museum exhibition generally means first having to penetrate the well-guarded gates of a prestigious art gallery. But now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube are aiming to short-circuit that exclusionary art-world system, at least briefly, in much the same way

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Display your museum tweets in public places with animation

Display your museum tweets in public places via Visible Tweets. You can use different animations. (Takes some while loading). Visible Tweets is a visualisation of Twitter messages designed for display in public spaces. If you want to keep abreast of updates to this application or if you

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Brooklyn Museum – Rethinking Twitter with ConnectTweet

This could be of benefit for a lot of museums using Twitter. Brooklyn Museum reports: “For as long as we’ve had the Brooklyn Museum Twitter account, I’ve been the sole voice behind it, but today we are trying something new.  Ben Hedrington, the developer behind ConnectTweet, has

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