Museum Nerd Alert: #MCN2011
On November 17th, I’ll be speaking at the 2011 Museum Computer Network conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on a panel called Beyond the Blog: New Waves in Digital Arts Publication, which I co-organized with Elisabeth Neely, Director of Digital Information and Access at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sam Quigley, Vice President for Collection Management, Imaging and Information Technology / Museum CIO at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Molly Kleiman, Deputy Editor of Triple Canopy.
The quick and dirty: I will focus on Whitney Stories, the online magazine whose second issue I’m putting to bed as I type; the AIC folks will discuss the implementation of their Getty-funded Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative project; and Triple Canopy will simply do what it does so well.
The proper précis: “New technologies and design innovations have inspired a nascent renaissance in digital publishing. These advances in web publishing can be largely attributed to the Apple iPad that launched in 2010. Many of the emerging innovations improve the experience of digital reading, often by craftily emulating features from print publishing, such as columns, horizontal page ‘turning’, and inline imagery. This panel presents examples of new directions in digital arts publication from the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the online arts magazine Triple Canopy. Unlike the more pragmatic content delivery of web pages and blogs, the projects presented focus on delivery of a superior reading experience. The panelists will discuss successes, challenges and the exciting future of digital publishing.”
+ Museum Computer Network Conference 2011: Hacking the Museum You’ll be there, Right? Right.
