Creating #citizencurators: putting twitter into museum showcases.

This article is a case study of a Twitter project #citizencurators, which was jointly developed by the University of Westminster and the Museum of London to 'collect' Londoners' experience of the 2012 Olympic Games. The cross-disciplinary research explored how cultural institutions can use social media to extend and diversify their collecting methos. As such this project demonstrates how the use of social networking can empower the Museum

Hands-on, Shoes-off: multisensory tools enhance family engagement within an art museum

Families with young children typically struggle to engage with traditional art museum environments. This research examined the impact of multisensory tools on family engagement within Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar. Sixty families with at least one child aged 0–11 were observed during two tasks. One task required participants to look at a series of paintings to select their favorite. In another task, families were given a toolkit of multisensory items to facilitate interaction with a painting. A semi-structured observational method produced quantitative and qualitative data about participant engagement and intergenerational interaction. Self-rating scores of task enjoyment were also collected. Results indicate that multisensory tools enhance family engagement with museums, artworks, and each other. Results also suggest that word-based interpretation was not necessary. We consider the potential implications of these findings in relation to family programming within art museums and museums more generally.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Dominique Blain

This catalogue was made to accompany an exhibition of Blain's works from 1986 through to 1997. Ride situates Blain's installations in the context of 1980s postmodern interventionist art practice, and suggests her appropriation of archival photographs and objects reveals the mechanisms of colonial power. Gupta focuses on how Blain's work challenges the specters of colonial power and oppression within modernism. Biographical notes. 8 bibl. ref

Possible Maps

A small catalogue made to accompany a three program series of video works by artists from Canada, Britain, France and Belgium. Includes texts by the curators - Balser; Rashid and Ride; N. Gingras - who discuss notions of subjectivity/self, virtuality, identity and the body in relation to the theme of travel. Brief biographical notes on curators. 9 bibl. ref

Curating New Media

The proceedings of a conference at BALTIC, “Curating New Media” contains transcripts of the presentations of nine curators, artists, and artist-curators and the discussions between them about the production, distribution and exhibition of new media art. The speakers detail their experiences installing works on the Web and in galleries. Lists of participants, related URLs, and a corresponding programme of short films and videos are included. Biographical notes. 32 bibl. ref

The Urey Instrument: An Advanced In Situ Organic and Oxidant Detector for Mars Exploration

The Urey organic and oxidant detector consists of a suite of instruments designed to search for several classes of organic molecules in the martian regolith and ascertain whether these compounds were produced by biotic or abiotic processes using chirality measurements. These experiments will also determine the chemical stability of organic molecules within the host regolith based on the presence and chemical reactivity of surface and atmospheric oxidants. Urey has been selected for the Pasteur payload on the European Space Agency's (ESA's) upcoming 2013 ExoMars rover mission. The diverse and effective capabilities of Urey make it an integral part of the payload and will help to achieve a large portion of the mission's primary scientific objective: “to search for signs of past and present life on Mars.” This instrument is named in honor of Harold Urey for his seminal contributions to the fields of cosmochemistry and the origin of life