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Looking at ads that are looking at us

Despite being just plain creepy, this story made me think about the idea’s application (more innocent? or not?) in museums. If we were to watch visitors looking at our mulitmedia screens, what would we learn? And how would we use it? “Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery [...]

Stupid Piece of F@#$%^* S*@%!

For anyone who has the shiny gadget gene, courtesy of the Onion News Network, this is for you:

Three (perhaps) interesting articles to read and think about:

In these times of economic distress here is an executive summary of Milton Friedman’s work reminding us that the social responsibility of a business is to increase it’s profits: ( http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/case-studies/the-social-responsibility-of-business-is-to-increase-its-profits/) Hmm…so then what is the social responsibility of of a non-profit. Here is one definition http://www.not-for-profit.org/page2.htm  I bet you all can find more…. …and, for those of you exploring ethics topics, a [...]

Toilet Humour

I belong to a secret society of art museum administrators. Yes, really. We’re like the Masons with an initiation ceremony (“Leap of Faith” or “Tunnel of Death”) and coded phrases that we ask complete strangers in an attempt to verify their allegiance. So, the next time someone asks you what rule base you use for [...]

Plan B

Holly’s post is a sobering one. We’re living in uncertain times, and I thought I’d share my thoughts on career and job, which you may or may not agree with. Nobody else is in charge of your career but you. Its doubtful that your boss will knock on your door tomorrow and offer you a [...]

Bad News from San Diego Museum of Art: 23 People Lose Their Jobs

The week after AAMD held their annual meeting in San Diego the San Diego Museum of Art announced staff reductions.   “This is very difficult,” said Cartwright, “but it is unavoidable. I felt staff reductions were the necessary step to ensure the future of SDMA in the years and decades to come.” http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/feb/06/1m6b2briefs232117-short-takes/ Okay technology folks, time [...]

Smaller

The Japanese have been adept at making things smaller, cheaper, faster. This however, takes the biscuit. This human figure is made from living human liver cancer cells and demonstrates a new technique that could improve the screening of new drug compounds (Image: Shoji Takeuchi). And just as my girls went from Bratz to nanos. Read [...]

In Soviet Korea, Art Eats YOU!

A couple of weeks ago, Nina Simon put out an idea-tweet (as she does) which asked: Why don’t art museums treat visitors like artists? That’s what science centers do (with science) After a brief flurry of Twitter replies, the question stuck with me, and it was something I kept thinking about a couple of days [...]