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 next 12 months. The aim is to provide an accessible and interactive platform for sharing ideas, lessons, best practice, networking and knowledge.

The first of these was held in Amsterdam on the 9th March, generously hosted by Clifford Chance.

This was a very inspiring symposium. There are so many opportunities for the cultural sector in the Netherlands. The organisation of the day was perfect’ (feedback from March Symposium).
Not only do attendees get to hear insightful experiences and advice from senior professionals in the Netherlands and the UK but we will also be running an afternoon of facilitated workshops, where by attendees will be asked to solve a real life funding challenge, with advice and guidance from the speakers.

This second edition promises to be a useful day and we intend for you to leave more confident about tackling any funding challenges you may have.

We are delighted to confirm the following topics and speakers:
Engaging your community – Doro Siepel (Director, Theater Zuidplein) and Rachid Benhammau – (Theater Zuidplein)
Developing audiences as major stakeholders – Kingsley Jayasekera, (Director of Communications and Digital Strategy, Sadler’s Wells)
Individual patrons and how to create a unique donors club – Sue Livermore, (Associate Consultant, NR+P, former Patrons Manager, Tate)
Transforming fundraising for a national company in the context of a capital campaign, Rambert Dance Company – Naomi Russell (Managing Director, NR+P)
Building a successful sponsor partnership – (De Nederlandse Opera)
Fundraising during a recession – John Nickson (Former Director of the Tate Foundation and Director of Development at
English National Opera)

Tickets are €135, and that includes a full day, lunch and a networking drink after the symposium is over. Please find the flyer and booking form attached for more details.

For all enquiries – please contact symposium@nrandpartners.com

Jane Darnell on Linkedin writes: ” There is a Wikipedia multi-lingual challenge going on for the Derby museum in the UK. The idea is to use QR codes to link to Wikipedia articles. If the object itself is notable enough, there may be an article devoted to the object, but there may also be QR codes directing the user to Wikipedia articles on general terms used in the museum.”

Go to this page and paste a Wikipedia URL into the box to create a language-detecting, mobile-friendly QR code.

Idea: Terence Eden & Roger Bamkin

Site: Michael McNeela

With help & inspiration from Tom Morris, Alison Wheeler & many others

This project caught our attention.

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 free access to currently about 400,000 digital videos, photos, film posters and text materials. By September, the number of digital items will increase to 600,000 from 16 film archives.

“The European Film Gateway creates a central online access to Europe’s film heritage for the first time. Previously, this remarkable record of 20th century European cinema had been dispersed on different national platforms,” says Claudia Dillmann, director of the Deutsches Filminstitut, which co-ordinates the project. “Now the films and information about them are more accessible, not only to scholars, journalists and creatives, but also by a broader audience interested in film.”

“EFG also provides access to material in film archives that was hitherto hardly known, and some is now online for the first time,” says project manager Georg Eckes. These include unique magic lantern slide collections from France, erotic films made in Austria in the early 20th century, advertising films from Norway, newsreels from Lithuania and a comprehensive film poster collection from Denmark. Hidden treasures can be discovered from 15 European countries. Cinecittá Luce from Rome, for example, contributes not only a famous Italian newsreel collection reporting on important film-related events and persons, but also a fine collection of early films by great masters like Rossellini, Antonioni, Comencini, and other famous names of Italian filmmaking. An extensive collection of set photos to films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder contributed by the Deutsches Filminstitut will be available for the first time online from August on.

Users of the portal can search for people, for example Marlene Dietrich, but also by film title or keywords. They get an overview of related digital objects from the film archives which can be viewed directly in the portal. The portal always links back to the website of the relevant archives, and therefore also works as a search engine for selected digital holdings of European film archives.

The European Film Gateway as a building block of Europeana

EFG is a component of Europeana, the platform for the cultural heritage of Europe. EFG gathers the indexing and access information, so-called “metadata”, and provides it to Europeana in a structured form. By doing so, the European Film Gateway and Europeana bring together the collections of European film archives with holdings of libraries, archives and museums in Europe, and put them in a transnational and multicultural context.

I thought this could be of some interest for some museum people.

ElipseAR is a set of tools for Augmented Reality and Computer Vision development. Thanks to that toolkit features like image matching and tracking, 3D animation rendering, geolocation using the camera view, face recognition, … will be easy to integrate on your AR project. All those tools are free for commercial use.

Visit the site HERE.

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 museum that we imagine as :

An open museum where each one has a place
A networked museum engaging with multiple communities
A museum as lab, live and evolving with its users
We all gather, active museum visitors, creators, artists, coders, pros, free agents and amateurs, to give life to this museum, to play and demonstrate together that a new visiting experience is possible !

This time we do it, for real ! Let’s mashup museums, let’s remix museums ;-)

Visit: http://www.museomix.com/

Create your own digital silkscreen print, just like Andy Warhol would have with the Warhol: D.I.Y. POP app from The Andy Warhol Museum.

Using your built-in camera or a photo from your library as source material, you’ll learn the Warhol process step by step. Crop. Expose. Underpaint. Share. And print a virtual silkscreen. While you’re at it, meet artists and curators from The Warhol who demonstrate silkscreen printing and give you inside information on Warhol and his art.

Learn more about The Andy Warhol Museum and connect with us all over the web.

“In the future everybody will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.”
— Andy Warhol

Now available on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Click here to download now.

Get your Warhol in The Warhol.

To celebrate the release of our new app – The Warhol: D.I.Y. Pop – we are having a contest to give you the unique opportunity to have your creation on display in the Museum!
How it Works:

Starting on July 11, The Warhol will choose images created with the Warhol: D.I.Y. Pop app daily to feature within the Museum. Each image will be on display for 15 days.
To enter via Twitter:

1. Download The Warhol: D.I.Y. Pop app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
2. Create your digital screenprint
3. Use the ‘Share’ feature in the app and select ‘Share on Twitter’.
4. Post your screenprint to Twitter, making sure to use the built-in hashtag “#warholDIY” and @thewarholmuseum.

To enter via Facebook:

1. Download The Warhol: D.I.Y. Pop app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
2. Create your digital screenprint
3. Use the ‘Share’ feature in the app and select ‘Share on Facebook’
4. Post your screenprint to Facebook
5. Change your active profile photo to your screeprint
6. Post on the Museum’s wall at www.facebook.com/thewarholmuseum

Visit the site for more info: http://www.warhol.org/diypop/

Our lovely friend Helen Papagiannis did it again: what a nice new AR app! On her blog Helen writes: “I’d like to present the first AR Pop-up Book for mobile devices using image recognition (a.k.a. regular images to trigger augmented content, as opposed to the black and white square glyphs that are common in AR). Integrating image recognition in the design, the book can hence be enjoyed alone as a regular pop-up book, or supplemented with augmented digital content when viewed through a mobile device equipped with a camera, such as an iPad 2 or iPhone 4.

Playful rhyming text takes you through the storybook where various ‘creepy crawlies’ (spider, ant, and butterfly) are awaiting to be discovered, appearing virtually as 3D models you can interact with. A tarantula attacks when you touch it, an ant hyperlinks to educational content with images and diagrams, and a butterfly appears flapping its wings atop a flower in a meadow.”

Helen Papagiannis is a designer, PhD researcher and artist specializing in Augmented Reality (AR). She is available for commercial work, commissions, consulting and speaking engagements. Helen has been working with AR since 2005 designing and building prototypes to explore the creative possibilities and theoretical implications for this exciting new medium. This blog documents a small sample of her work. Contact Helen to inquire about further work and collaborations.

Perhaps this announcement of Google today could be something for you:

“Today, we’re excited to announce a brand new tool to help your business get “mobile”-ized: Google Sites mobile landing pages.  With Google Sites mobile landing pages, you can build yourself a professional mobile landing page in minutes, for free — and without any coding experience.

Why use Google Sites mobile landing pages?

• It’s easy.  Creating a Google Site is as easy as editing a document, which means there’s no markup language for you to learn — just get started.
• It’s free.  Google Sites is one of many free products offered by Google.
• It’s measurable.  One-click Google Analytics integration allows you to monitor your site’s traffic.
• It’s fast.  Create your mobile landing page in minutes by starting from one of five pre-loaded templates.  You can also start from scratch with the custom template.

Restaurant            Local Business         Lead Generation              Social                eCommerce

Visit sites.google.com/mobilize to get started today!

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 with its inspiring presentations and special activities lets the visitors discover the richness of African cultures. Next to a valuable collection of traditional art you will find a unique collection of contemporary art. Also the Afrika Museum devotes special attention to African architecture.

Video credits: camera Robert Berger, editing Jan Haan, director Robert Busschots, Infofilm, commissioned by the Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Netherlands

Visit the museum’s website: http://www.afrikamuseum.nl

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 thousands of individual works, including pieces by some of the world’s leading artists, from world famous names such as Picasso to Rubens to unknown local painters.

These paintings aren’t just of interest to art lovers, they also make up one of the biggest pre-photographic records of 600 years of British society, life and culture, a hugely important educational and historical resource.

And yet the public’s access to this incredible resource has to date been limited by physical constraints: some 80% of the works are in storage, or otherwise unavailable to view; those that can be seen are scattered around the country, looked after by a diverse range of institutions, from the major national galleries right through to individual council offices and even fire stations, with no way for the public to see the scale of the combined collection. The vast majority have never been published online before.

Now the Public Catalogue Foundation (a charity established to document and photograph this national collection) have teamed up with the BBC and thousands of galleries and collections right across the UK to make the entire national oil painting collection permanently viewable in one place for the first time, for free to the general public.

Our beta launch today showcases the first 63,000 of these paintings, covering works from over 800 collections by over 15,000 individual artists. This is the start of a rolling programme of releases – we’ll be updating the site with thousands of new paintings in the coming months, in line with the PCF’s photography and digitisation programme, with the ambition of having the entire national collection – some 200,000 paintings – online by the end of 2012.

We really hope you enjoy using the site, and we’d love you to contact us with any comments, suggestions or improvements.”

SOURCE: Mobile Audio Platforms

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#

Press Release
Overwhelming Public Participation in the Project
Berlin, 10 June 2011: Hundreds of participants of all ages have contributed a
great variety of personal memorabilia from World War I to the online project
www.europeana1914-1918.eu.  Due to the overwhelming success, four additional participation days will take place in Dresden, Erfurt, Kiel and Regensburg in June/July 2011.

Ranging from individual field postcards and photos to huge albums, detailed
diaries or commemorative beer mugs to an entire box filled with a sword,
spiked and steel helmets and a regiment’s grave cloth, everything imaginable
has been among the contributions. A rather unusual item is a ‘delousing chit‘,
the use of which was probably limited to one unit only. It informed the bearer,
soldier Berger, that he was now clean and free of vermin of the trenches. It is
documentary evidence of soldiers being communally bathed, or perhaps more
accurately dunked and rubbed down, in disused breweries, or mobile bath
units.

Maybe even the fate of Otto Arndt can be clarified now. He was a German
soldier and prisoner of war and close friend of the British L.A.C. Bernard
Darley. A short film made as part of the project tells the story of the friends’
heroic deed.

The project “First World War in everyday documents” started on 24 March
2011. It is a joint initiative of Europeana, the German National Library and
Oxford University. Overall more than 350 people attended the previous four
participation days in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich and Stuttgart. Over
15,000 digital images were taken from documents and memorabilia brought in.
A large part of the contributions is already catalogued and is publicly available for research on the project website, along with directly uploaded objects.

Further Public Participation Days
• Stadt- und Regionalbibliothek Erfurt, 14 June 2011, 10-18 h
• Sächsische Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden,
22 June 2011, 10-18 h
• Zentralbücherei Kiel, 29 June 2011, 10-18 h
• Staatliche Bibliothek Regensburg, 20 July 2011, 10-18 h

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 My Museum, you learn about art history by playing detective and you could win ‘the Golden Paulette’!

MY MUSEUM LE LOUVRE HAS BEEN PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX-GRAND PALAIS AND WITH THE SUPPORT OF LE MUSEE DU lOUVRE.

The iphone application ‘My Museum’ is a fun-audio guide which invites you to
visit the Louvre in a fun and original way.
The user helps Paulette, a friendly and impish guide, to solve the riddles in a treasure trail. Paulette has the power to make the masterpieces speak and uses this gift to ‘interview’ 25 artworks in an open and friendly tone.

25 MAJOR ARTORKS
Discover the stars of the Louvre on your iphone. My Museum invites you to plunge into the heart of the collections of the most prestigious museum in the world. From the Italian Renaissance to the French schools, via Ancient Egypt, the whole history of the Palace of the Louvre is recounted by its famous tenants.

PAULETTE MAKES THE MASTERPIECES SPEAK
Paulette is a very special journalist with the unique power to bring to life the stars of art history.

A STROLL ROUND LE LOUVRE
Make a date with My Museum at the world’s largest museum in the heart of Paris. The Louvre is open every day except Tuesdays and national holidays.
Download from your iphone application and meet your personal guide.

THE VOICES OF THE MASTERPIECES
The Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the artists Raphael and David all reveal their secrets to Paulette in exclusive interviews!

In My museum le Louvre, discover who survived on the ‘Raft of the Medusa’, listen to the painter David own up to enlarging Napoleon, find out about the Mona Lisa’s family. Paulette knows how to get a good scoop!

THE RED ARROW
It’s difficult not to get lost when you visit the Louvre; its sheer size and complexity quickly transform it into a labyrinth.

My Museum allows you to find your way around the rooms and the corridors without getting lost. Simply follow the flashing red arrow on your iphone.
The arrowed screens of My Museum will lead you straight to the artworks.

THE TREASURE TRAIL
Learn about art history by playing detective. Paulette invites you to discover the extraordinary story of the palace of the Louvre through the events and turns of its eight centuries. Set out on the trail of 15 of the museum’s works of art. Each key you find opens a door which leads to a mini-game related to the works or the history of the museum. The total number of keys you find will win you a golden, a silver or a plastic “Paulette”!

ANIMATIONS
All the works presented in My museum le Louvre have been transformed into original animations. Watch the ‘Seated Scribe’ scribbling, relive the nineteenth century discovery of the Venus de Milo or the staging of Napoleon’s coronation! My museum helps you to understand the works and the story behind them.

INTERNET PUBLICATIONS
Your treasure trail score can be posted on your Facebook wall so you can share with your friends your ‘Golden Paulette’ award, or the silver or…the plastic Paulette!
You can also share your visit with your friends by posting one of the poetic postcards offered with the application onto your Facebook wall.

THE STARS OF LE LOUVRE ARE MULTILINGUAL
Over 8 million people visit the Louvre every year. The Louvre welcomes tourists from all over the world and so My Museum offers guides in 3 languages with Spanish available in October 2011.

iPhone Screenshots

TOMORROW 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.

Test your IPv6 Connectivity

Want to find out your IPv6 readiness? Use this test.

READ MORE HERE

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 Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).

It follows a speech by Culture Minister Ed Vaizey in January where he called on cultural organisations to embrace new technology and the opportunities it offers.

“Our lives are increasingly defined by how we engage and interact with the world digitally and cultural organisations can’t afford to be left behind,” Mr Vaizey said. “Too often finances, structures or traditions can constrain the arts from making best use of the technology which now sits at the heart of many people’s everyday lives.

“This programme seeks to show how digital technology can revolutionise our cultural engagement, helping people to derive greater value from cultural activities and to find new ways to generate income.”

Organisations that are eligible to apply to the programme include visual and performing arts organisations, cultural organisations in England including arts and cultural archives, literary organisations, museums and galleries, libraries, commercial arts and cultural organisations and creative industry businesses. Applications will be open until 2 September 2011.

Further information

• Arts Council England website
• AHRC website
• NESTA website
• What we do: funding for the arts

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 rotating to get the feel of turning pages without ever running out you have the best of both worlds!”