'How Will Technology Shape the Museum of Tomorrow?' is one of my most often repeated questions in the year since I met (and instantly befriended) the co-founders of Museum of Tomorrow (Museu do Amanhã) from Rio de Janeiro and FORMS (Future Oriented Museum Synergies) network...
“Contrary to the archetype, a desert is not defined by the absence of water. The desert landscape is formed by the memory of water.” Desert X 2023 Coachella Valley, CA March 4 – May 7 Curated by Desert X Artistic Director Neville Wakefield and Co-curator Diana Campbell. Participating Artists: Rana Begum,...
What licensing challenges do NFTs pose for artists and cultural institutions? How are the technical and legal components of copyright licences evolving in Web3? The ‘metaverse’ raises a number of legal issues concerning artists’ and cultural institutions’ intellectual property and moral rights. The Legal Lab Live series...
The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fifth event on the topic. While the 2022 conference challenged binary concepts such as analog/ digital, this year’s event critically examines the imagined cultural metaverse. In four...
Join us for a live presentation of FAE3 addressing the possibilities for a more interoperably (i.e. cross-organisationally integrated) vision for 21st century cultural infrastructure. FAE 3 identifies new patterns for organisational and creative innovation within the broader space of decentralised technologies, variably dubbed as ‘web3’,...
One of our friends and ex - colleague, Stefanie Hessler brought this greatly curated events to our attention, which is a series of seminars that anticipates the MASP’s program devoted to the theme "Histories of Ecology" throughout 2025. The project is organized by MASP and...
Futures literacy has nothing to do with second sight or fortune telling. It’s the ability to imagine options for the future – we also call them futures – and the possibilities that exist for shaping them. Futures literacy improves our ability to prepare for change....
Brazilian photographer and environmental activist Sebastião Salgado has spent seven years immersed in the Amazon, the largest tropical forest on earth, translating his observations and experiences through his lens into fabulous photographs. Those have made an international impression in his exhibition Amazônia in France (Music Museum,...
September 19, 2017 Dear Pam, What a great morning. Cooked up some pancakes and eggs, sat down at the computer and read your wonderful e-mail! I loved it. Thank you. I hiked into Wason Park by way of East Willow today. Oooohhhh my. What a day. The La Garitas have nourished my...
Nattie’s metaverse romance began with anonymous texting. At first “C” would admit only to living in a nearby town. Nattie eventually learned “Clem” was a man with a solitary office job like hers. For Nattie “lived, as it were, in two worlds” – the world...