Arts Funding Symposium: #Rotterdam 20 september / #Amsterdam 22 september

ARTS FUNDING SYMPOSIUM Rotterdam, 20 September 2011 – Theater Zuidplein Amsterdam, 22 September 2011 – ING Business School Zuiderhoff At NR+P, we appreciate how imagination, unity and collaboration is growing increasingly important for a European cultural sector faced with unprecedented challenges. In response, we will be organising a series of talks and symposiums over the [...]

#Press Release: Film archives showcase their collections: The European Film Gateway is online

Press Release For Immediate Release Frankfurt am Main, 26 July 2011 Film archives showcase their collections: The European Film Gateway is online After nearly three years of preparation and development, the European Film Gateway – EFG –  http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu is now online. The Internet portal to the digital collections of European film archives and cinémathèques offers [...]

#Museomix: 3 days to sketch the museum we dream of – for real

3 days to sketch the museum we dream of – for real ! During this long weekend from november 11th to 13th, we will meet in a museum to prototype new engagement experiences. During these 3 days, we mix our ideas and our skills to create a museum that is no longer a cathedral, a [...]

New videoclip for the Afrika Museum in The Netherlands

Infofilm in The Netherlands made a short introductory videoclip for the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal. On youtube you can watch this clip in HD1080-codec. This magnificent museum offers an attractive combination of an Indoor museum with a beautiful collection and an Outdoor museum with a strong educational and recreational character. The Afrika Museum [...]

‘Your Paintings’ puts the UK’s complete oil painting collection online

  Your Paintings is a new web initiative by the #BBC in partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation. It aims to put the nation’s complete oil painting collection online. “The UK holds in its galleries & civic buildings one of the largest collections of oil paintings in the world, a treasure trove of tens of [...]

A list of Mobile Audio Platforms

SOURCE: Mobile Audio Platforms Nancy Proctor made a list of mobile audio platforms. “The list is intended to contain information about available mobile audio platforms which satisfy as many of the below criteria as possible.  The hope is to have a central place for information on mobile audio tools that are available to help create [...]

A new participatory iPad App: ‘Be Part Of’ by Alexei Matveev

This is a nice App. It allows you to draw together with many others live on a screen at an exhibition and interact with the audience. Description Be Part Of allows you to draw together with many others live on a screen at an exhibition and interact with the audience. Current exhibition: The Center for [...]

Samurai Art on your iPad

This Samurai Art iPad application shows ancient works of art in digital form on the iPad. It has a 20-Meter Ancient Japanese Scroll included. It’s featuring the Hosokawa Family Eisei Bunko Collection. You can find the app here: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id436760848?mt=8#

New #iPhone App: My museum le Louvre (English version) By L oeil pop

Nice audio guide: Paulette has interviewed the greatest stars of the Louvre. Listen to exclusive interviews with the Mona Lisa, the artist Raphael, the Great Sphinx and the brightest stars of the Louvre. Paulette guides you with her little red arrow so you will no longer get lost in the corridors of the Louvre. With [...]

UK: £500K fund to stimulate digital innovation in the arts

SOURCE: http://www.culture.gov.uk/news/news_stories/8202.aspx Funding will promote the use of digital technologies to connect with wider audiences and explore new ways of working. Arts and cultural organisations are being given the opportunity to apply for a share of a half-a-million-pound fund to harness new technology. The Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture was announced today by [...]