Museums and the Web
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Closing Plenary: Mind the GAP – Reflections on the Google Art Project
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plenary
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April 9, 2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914
Description
The Google Art Project's walk-through of 17 art galleries from around the world has raised many questions about strategies to represent museums and their collections online: http://www.googleartproject.com/
In the MW2011 Closing Plenary, we'll explore these issues with representatives of institutions who participated in the Google Art Project. The session will be in two parts:
- Ignite-style Presentations (20 slides / 20 seconds each) from two museums presenting their experiences and the challenges the project raised
- A Panel Discussion, including a representative from Google, answering your questions from the floor – and the comments here!
Bring your thoughts and questions to this discussion.
Comments
by Nancy Proctor - Apr 9 2011 - 4:24pm
My thoughts and notes on the Google Art Project from MW2011
This is the article I published on GAP in Curator Journal; I added notes from today's session to the comments:
http://www.curatorjournal.org/archives/635/comment...
It was based on this blog post and the comments it received:
http://www.curatorjournal.org/archives/489
by Lindsay O'Leary - Apr 9 2011 - 9:17am
Q: What about 3-D?
The art appears, understandably, to be mostly constrained to paintings by the old masters. I work at a museum of contemporary art based solely on site-specific installation art and the ephemeral nature of many of the temporary artworks scream for proper documentation---they have been constructed from a myriad of materials, from dead birds to candy. Imagining some sort of marriage of Photosynth and Google Goggles for 3-D art, contemporary and otherwise, makes my heart go pitter pat.
GAP (already kinda awesome) has been improving steadily during the past two months; I can't wait to see what's in store.