On Tuesday Nov. 7 2017, a dozen members of the Museum Computer Network convened to Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh’s Innovation Studio for a “data hackathon”.
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#MCN2017 highlights video
For the last three editions of MCN, I’ve been helping out with the video documentation of the conference by doing short interviews during coffee breaks.
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#museusparaque ? #museumswhatfor ?
“Museums, what for?”, the one million dollar question!
This conference took place over two days at the Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow) in Rio de Janeiro, in November 2016.
I’m not sure we really got an answer to this big question, but I had the honour to introduce the keynote speaker from Tate, Rob Baker.
Rob’s presentation about “The museum, brand and society” is really worth checking out. He has now moved on to MoMA in New York.
Other highlights:
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Dr. Richard Benjamin – International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
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Janaína Melo – Escolha do Olhar, Museu do Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro
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Jonathan Newby – Science Museum, UK (to diversify sources of revenue, the Science Museum Group owns a solar farm!)
#MCN2016 presentation
This is a presentation I gave at #MCN2016 in New Orleans about the project we did with about 100 kids at MASP.
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#MCN2016 highlights video
#MCN2015, Minneapolis
At the beginning of November, I attended the #MCN2015 conference in Minneapolis. I was part of the team documenting the conference, which means I did a few short interviews that were included in the highlights video and took many pictures.
To summarize: it was my first MCN and I loved it.
See you next year for #MCN2016 in New Orleans!
MuseumNext, Geneva
Musée Olympique in Lausanne – best museum driveway!
In April 2015 I traveled to Switzerland for MuseumNext in Geneva.
It was a great opportunity to catch up on new products, new experiences, new museums etc.
It was also very good to see many familiar faces, to catch up with old friends and former colleagues, and to put a face on some people I only knew via their publications or twitter handles.
MuseumHacks made a strong impression with the funniest presentation of the conference. It was actually more like stand-up comedy than anything and made other museum professionals look like dusty academics…
It’s quite interesting that what they’re selling doesn’t involve any technology: real flesh and blood museum guides!
Storytelling, as in: a good story, of course, but a good story well told.
Another good reminder from Nick Gray’s talk:
“Museums are competing with movie theatres, netflix, people have to be entertained before they can be educated.”
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Musée d’Art et d’Histoire
Google class! Hum… Here am I, skeptical about Google Glass audio guides.
And on this one I’m just jumping out of a trench during WWI! Indeed.
Impressive POV video, yet not very interactive.