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Alli Burness

Traveling museum writer • #MuseumPilgrim tweeting collections, travel, digital • Museum Selfies project • alliburness@outlook.com

Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums? Community photography exhibition in Ecuador. EXPERIMENT: MOBILE! Mobile photography − from phone to exhibition » City Muse... Experiment: mobile!

EXPERIMENT: MOBILE! Mobile photography − from phone to exhibition » City Muse...

Mobile photography − from phone to exhibition is one of the first exhibitions in Slovenia to present photographs shot by mobile phones and processed using digital image processing tools. The exhibition was created within the ambit of the European project “OpenMuseums” and will put on display 194 images of Ljubljana broken down by theme. In the period January to March 2013, the Museum embarked on a photographic experiment: users of Instagram were invited via the Museum’s web page, Facebook and Twitter to send their images of Ljubljana via this application to the Museum (#fotolj).

Many (occasional) photographers responded, sending in a total of over 1,000 shots. The jury selected as many as 194 photographs by 43 photographers for the exhibition. As to what will be shown in the exhibition and why it was created in the first place, Blaž Vurnik, curator of modern history, said: "Museums have always tried to allow for the peculiarities of the time they live in. Columbus Museum of Art présente la première exposition mondiale de photos générées par Instagram. Afin de combiner technologie et réseaux sociaux, le Columbus Museum of Art présente la première exposition d’un musée générée par Instagram.

Columbus Museum of Art présente la première exposition mondiale de photos générées par Instagram

Le CMA vient également de lancer sa seconde « chasse photographique ». CMA a utilisé une de ses expositions majeures, « The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936 – 1951″ comme inspiration d’une campagne virale encourageant les visiteurs et internautes à participer à une « chasse photographique » au sein du musée. Résultat: une exposition de plus de 30 oeuvres photographiques prises via l’application Instagram, présentée dans la « Community Gallery » du CMA, jusqu’en décembre 2012.

“Le Columbus Museum of Art se veut un pionnier dans la création d’un modèle de musée du XXIème siécle visionnaire, innovant, centré sur le visiteur et participatif » a déclaré le directeur général du CMA, Nannette V. Maciejunes. L’appel à contributions fut lancé en mars 2012 sur le site et blog du CMA. Columbus Museum of Art. This next round of Photo Hunt assignments are based on Making Faces, our exhibition currently on view in the Family Gallery that explores portraits from CMA’s collection, and includes work by Diane Arbus, Roy Lichtenstein, Miro, and other noted artists.

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Watch for biweekly assignments here on our blog, and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. (Look for more assignments December 14, 2012, and December 28, 2012). Here is your fourth Making Faces CMA Photo Hunt assignment: Capture something that reflects the word double.Tag your work on Instagram with #CMAPhotoHunt and #DoubleTag by midnight Friday December 14, 2012.Please note: images must be your own; while preference may be given to Ohio-based photographers, anyone in the world can participate. Once again our Photography Curator Catherine Evans will select her favorites (based on the most creative entries, and ones that best represent the theme), and your creation could be part of the next CMA Photo Hunt installation this January 2013.

No pictures, please: Taking photos may impede memory of museum tour. 9-Dec-2013 [ Print | E-mail ] Share [ Close Window ] Contact: Anna Mikulakamikulak@psychologicalscience.org 202-293-9300Association for Psychological Science Visit a museum these days and you'll see people using their smartphones and cameras to take pictures of works of art, archeological finds, historical artifacts, and any other object that strikes their fancy.

No pictures, please: Taking photos may impede memory of museum tour

While taking a picture might seem like a good way to preserve the moment, new research suggests that museum-goers may want to put their cameras down. In a new study, psychological scientist Linda Henkel of Fairfield University presents data showing that participants had worse memory for objects, and for specific object details, when they took photos of them. Henkel was inspired to conduct the research in part because of her own experiences. "People so often whip out their cameras almost mindlessly to capture a moment, to the point that they are missing what is happening right in front of them," says Henkel. [ Print | E-mail. Ghost Stories — Futures Exchange. The photographs we take of ourselves, or have taken of us, are the visual record of our existence in the world.

Ghost Stories — Futures Exchange

However, we are finding that occasionally they will go on to live lives without us, in darker, or more abstracted places than we ever imagined. Our images become involuntary nomads, displaced across the internet to places we don’t predict, permit, or have knowledge of. I remember last year the proposed change to Instagram’s terms and services, where the images that you took would automatically become the company’s property, apparently allowing them to sell them on to third-parties for use in advertising.

The public backlash was enormous, with many leaving the service to rival image-sharing websites, justifiably upset at this alleged abuse of their images. Beyond the #selfie: Connecting teens and art through social media. MCN 2013: IGNITE. #atNGA (with images, tweets) · danamuses. Teenguide.pdf.