Quite a nice little debate about the use of technology and access to info in gallery spaces going on over at Art & Seek:
http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/02/12/the-wireless-dma/
... and follow-up:
http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/02/20/video-dmas-arts-network/
The IMA has again knocked it out of the park with a new Web site. They are launching a very “Arts Networky” video broadcast site (philosophy, channels and all).
Now that your organization has finally gotten the funding to digitize your collection, what are you going to do with all those hi-res image files that are being generated and saved to your network?
Not to mention video. Doesn’t it seem like everyone in the museum is going around filming every event that holds even the slightest bit of interest, and leaving it up to you (I.T.) to decide what to do with the stuff? Craziness! How do you decide what to keep and what to discard? And how do you decide what you keep long term or short term, hi-res or low-res, locally or off-site?
I am in love with this guy. He's funny and a good writer. And I tend to agree with him.
We now have 2 Flash shorts illustrating the Arts Network -- narration by our own Homer Gutierrez :)
Overview:
http://www.dmaupdate.org/tan/presentation/DMA_Scene_one.swf
Behind the scenes:
http://www.dmaupdate.org/tan/presentation/DMA_Scene_two.swf
Nice story from KERA's Jerome Weeks:
http://www.kera.org/artandseek/content/2008/08/21/the-wired-up-and-wirel...
We have finally hit the stage in our project where we have a lovely new design for our current site, ramped up infrastructure and wireframed basic templates. The nasty business of cleaning and mapping current content into the new order is up next. We have a pretty good inventory at this point, but always fun to get a visual. This one grabbed with PowerMapper:
http://www.dmaupdate.org/tan/sitemaps/map.htm
Yikes.
I will post wireframes and other site maps in the DOC area.
After a long break from contributing to this blog, I am finally posting a pile of our project docs to the DOCS section of this site. Primarily PM stuff, but will begin some useful tech specs soon.
Please welcome Ted Forbes, the Dallas Museum of Arts' new Media Producer. Ted comes to us with over 10 years of experience in interactive design. After graduating from the University of North Texas and working for several startups during the late 90's tech boom, he went on to manage his own successful studio before joining the DMA. In addition to his interactive work he is an adjunct faculty member at Brookhaven Community College.
