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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.

Following my post yesterday about the way in which RFID tags have been used in an exhibition, today I visited Mediamatic a Dutch digital / arts company who do some really exciting work.

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.

""Decode" at the V&A: Digital Reflections and Refractions " The exhibition has been arranged under three closely intertwined themes: Code, Interactivity and Network. A large installation in the Grand Entrance of London's Victoria and Albert Museum clatters away, registering its presence in this historic hallway. Jointly commissioned (by the V & A and SAP), bit.code (2009), by Julius Popp, consists of a large panel of black and white blocks which appear to represent a curious, indecipherable code as they rotate around their frame.

digital brainstorming Podcast mit Yvonne Inden, Projektleiterin Digitalisierung ETH Bibliothek Zürich

"Transliteracy Conference 9 Feb 2010, Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Leicester, UK PhoenixST Transliteracy Conference Tuesday 9 February, 2010, 9:30 - 17:30"

Einst haben Plakate und Rezensionen das Publikum in die Schweizer Museen gelockt. In Zukunft soll auch das eventorientierte Webdesign für den nötigen Kick sorgen. Virtualität und Social Media heissen die Zauberwörter

The Mobile for the Cultural Sector Conference will include a wide variety of people from across the Global cultural sector and the technology sector and will bring together the 200+ senior figures from: * museum, gallery and cultural sector curators, directors and board members * digital specialists * commercial strategists * pr and marketing teams * fund-raising and development specialists * quangos and leadership and training bodies * mobile app, website and marketing developers * advertising, planning and creative advertising agencies * network operators, handset manufacturers and technology leaders

HERE IS NEW YORK is not a conventional gallery show. It is something new, a show tailored to the nature of the event, and to the response it has elicited. The exhibition is subtitled "A Democracy of Photographs" because anyone and everyone who has taken pictures relating to the tragedy was invited to submit their images to the gallery, where they were digitally scanned, printed and displayed on the walls alongside the work of top photojournalists and other professional photographers.

Museums are exploring digital and mobile technologies to enhance visitor experience. Initiatives go beyond technology within exhibits and installations, but also include more pervasive uses of tech to create interactive experiences for visitors throughout a museum, as well as remote experiences for those who cannot get there.

"CollectiveAccess is a highly configurable cataloguing tool and web-based application for museums, archives and digital collections. Available free of charge under the GPL open-source license, it requires little to no custom programming to support a variety of metadata standards, external data sources and repositories, as well as most popular media formats. In addition to multilingual cataloguing facilities, it allows publication of this data in the languages of your choice. "

The ubiquity of mobile devices and the advent of augmented reality provide an opportunity to explore the use of interactive design in what is traditionally a difficult educational space: the art museum. The NGA Experience app (shown here on an iPhone but theoretically platform-agnostic) uses augmented reality to populate the art museum with a digital layer of content that is virtually infinite, yet completely optional for visitors. Such an application of AR in the museum ultimately provides a greater level of control and engagement to the museum visitor and enhances his or her opportunity for a meaningful experience without altering the physical space of the gallery.

"Du bist nicht du, wenn Du hungrig bist", so der aktuelle Kampagnen-Claim für den Schoko-Riegel Snickers. Auf diesem aufbauend hat sich der Süßwaren-Hersteller Mars eine Twitter-Aktion ausgedacht. Allerdings ist der Claim nur das letzte Tweet einer Reihe von Kurznachrichten, die zusammen genommen eine witzige Social-Media- Kampagne sein sollten. Absender der Tweets ist das britische Boxenluder Katie Price, die für einiges bekannt ist, aber wohl nicht gerade für intelligente Aussprüche.

Time travel through Bristol on the iPhone: The Time Traveller's Guide to Bristol project will launch a website later this week and an iPhone app at on July 28, allowing users to browse archive material and upload their own images of contemporary Bristol. It features 100 years of film and photography focused on six areas of Bristol, and invites users to superimpose archive material on a 3D model of contemporary shots - some of which were badly damaged during WW2, like Castle Park.

Transmedia Storytelling for the Individual/Job-seeker: What It Might Look Like: Part 2

Digital stories by people in the North East. Inspired by musuems and galleries.

At the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment each month from 5-11 p.m. During Target First Saturday in October, show us how the Museum looks through your eyes: bring your video camera, digital camera, or cell phone, and film a one-minute video.

RS combines research tools with social networking applications such as forums, wikis and blogs. The research tools are launched from a custom toolbar embedded into the collaboration application itself and therefore they are easily incorporated into a project's workflow . Essentially these research tool 'plug-ins' provide an additional layer of functionality so that data and digital assets can be searched and edited while engaging in more informal collaboration and communication activity. Conversely, it is the collaboration activity that creates opportunities for more formal data recording.

Digital stories by people in the North East inspired by museums and galleries