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 [...]

A rollable 6-inch SVGA display…

Polymer Vision 2011 Rollable 6-inch SVGA display comment by mobcommand : ” I think I speak for a lot of people when I say this is one step closer to making the perfect synthesis of tradition printed books and economical eBooks. If we can in some way double layer the displays and have them constantly [...]

March 17th: Picture a Museum Day

Once again a nice initiative by Jim Richardson, SUMO: Picture a Museum Day. This ia s one day global event on Twitter and Flickr. Museums and visitors can participate. The project aims to give behind-the-scenes access to the world’s museums. “On March 17th 201 1 we will capture the fascinating collections and the exciting activities [...]

Behind the scenes of the Google Art Project

NEW: Great article by Daniel Terdiman: The art of making Google Art Project (Q&A) For me the 17 special gigapictures are the greatest benefit of this project! It’s better than being on location where often light conditions are very poor (to preserve the paint quality of the art work of course). Vlad Savov from Engadget: [...]

The 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition – Trends & Challenges 2010-15

The 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition, the first report in the series to look at emerging technologies for museum education and interpretation, was released today by the Marcus Institute for Digital Education in the Arts (MIDEA), the museum-focused branch of the NMC. Like the flagship Horizon Report released each January, this edition identifies six key [...]

Social media, video footage, and the law!

Arts marketers who utilize new technology and social media must possess a working knowledge of intellectual property and union contracts. It can be tempting to leave legal issues solely up to the business manager, but arts marketers work with rapidly changing technologies on a daily basis. Therefore, they must know how current laws and emerging [...]

The free MoMA AB EX NY iPad App, starring…

Very nice videoclip! Find out more about the iPad app at http://www.moma.org/abexapp

Creative Spaces – Connecting with your favourite Museums!

Creative Spaces is an online community where users can share their ideas and experiences of the museum collections for their own creative purposes. Users can search across the nine partner museums and gallery collections British Museum, Imperial War Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum, Royal Armouries, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Tate, Victoria and Albert [...]

Museum website takes history to a new 3D dimension

You don’t have to buy one of those high-end 3-D televisions or pay the extra bucks for tickets to a 3-D movie to spend a little time in that third dimension. You can go online to the State Museum website, southcarolinastatemuseum.org, to explore some 3-D history.“Post Civil War Images of South Carolina,” a new online-only [...]