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Housed in a landmark industrial building on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, BALTIC is a major international centre for contemporary art. BALTIC has no permanent collection, providing instead an ever-changing calendar of exhibitions and events that give a unique and compelling insight into contemporary artistic practice. BALTIC's dynamic, diverse and international programme ranges from blockbuster exhibitions to innovative new work and projects created by artists working within the local community.

TourSphere™ is a unique collaboration of artists, entrepreneurs, and technologists. We see the world through a creative lens-and we believe that mobile technology can ignite a new wave of learning about our world.

Seductive Subversion opens today and the show takes a look at the impact of women artists on the traditionally male-dominated field of Pop art.  The exhibition team wanted to keep things simple in the gallery-a spare look, so the pop art would really pop out at you.  At the same time, the team had a plethora of research about each of the 25 artists featured in the show and wanted a way to share that with the public.   So, the goals of this endeavor became two-fold.  First, how do we share the research and, second, how do we do it in a way that won't overwhelm the visitor experience?  Wikipedia + iPads became the answer

I was reminded of these two design principles when exploring the Johnny Cash Project, a crowd-created music video for a posthumous recording of Cash singing "Ain't No Grave." To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. That's hardly revolutionary. But what happened next is: Milk created a simple tool to invite visitors to augment the frames of the video with digital brushstrokes. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world.

Every day millions of Britons engage with the arts and cultural sector through digital media.1 This engagement comes in many forms and is in a constant state of evolution, driven by technological change. Five years ago, mobile phones were for texts and calls and Facebook barely existed. Today, a quarter of us have a smartphone through which we can listen to a song, or watch a trailer for an artistic performance.2 Over 40,000 people track the Royal Opera House, and over 58,000 the British Museum, through Facebook; while FACT in Liverpool has 7,000 Twitter followers.However, this research represents the first time that this online engagement with arts and culture in England has been captured and quantified

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SPEAKERS Josephine Bosma (nl): Acceptable Loss. Tales of Life and Death in the Digital RealmThis paper is based on an essay from my book. It is a case study and comparison of two projects in the digital domain that deal with memory and conservation. Anne Laforet (fr) Net Art and Preservation. For Museums and ArtistsArtists have appropriated the Internet as soon as it became public to experiment new artistic, social and technical practices.

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When Jonathan Ross is helping with the kids' homework, when Jamie Oliver bakes, when any of my 75 closest pals have coffee, I know about it - instantly. Why? Because, like at least 100,000 Brits, I Twitter. I Twitter from bed before I get up; when I arrive at work; when something happens; when nothing happens. Once I chain-smoked, now I chain-Twitter.

I read with interest this week an article by Ruth Jamieson in The Guardian extolling the virtues of Twitter for us visual arts types. It largely confirmed what I've known for nearly a year now: Twitter is a great way to stay virtually connected with friends and professional contacts. It's fast, painless and has a Zen-like 140-character limit that disallows users from overwhelming other users with lengthy monologues.