Futurist Friday: Emotional Storytelling
My favorite futurist video this week: Karen Palmer talking about her latest artificial intelligence project. Palmer is an artist/technologist who combines film, storytelling, and neuroscience to create ’emotionally responsive …
A Roundup of Decolonization News
The popularity of last week’s guest post by Frank Howarth on decolonizing the museum mind prompts me to share a round-up of some of the stories I’ve been collecting on efforts to decolonize museum practice. The following abstracts and …
Decolonizing the Museum Mind
At the heart of modern museum work is the tension between our mission to preserve the past, and a moral obligation to confront the bias and inequities entangled with that inheritance. The history, mindset, and material culture of …
Crowdsourcing a Conference on Creative Aging
Would your museum like to host a national convening on museums and creative aging? Rather than figuring out the best site for such a meeting on our own, my colleagues and I at the Alliance are inviting you to speak up. Let’s call it …
Exploring the Explosion of Museum AI
Here are five good reasons you should join me in Miami Nov 1-2 to explore how museums can use artificial intelligence to fuel their work (illustrated by recent news): AI can help users in and out of the museum explore collections in new …
The Future is Climate
Until we perfect my AI-powered digital avatar, I rely on an informal network of correspondents to cover critical events taking place around the globe. In today’s guest post, Sarah W. Sutton reports from the Global Climate Action Summit …
Futurist Friday: Poetic Lions
As I prepare for the Alliance convening “New Intelligences,” I found this gem of an AI-powered art project installed this summer in Trafalgar Square. “Please Feed the Lions” is an interactive sculpture created by …
Meet Me in Miami to Explore Museums and AI
Right now I’m working on the agenda for Museums and New Intelligences, the Alliance’s second Knight Foundation-funded mini-conference exploring museum applications of emerging technologies. I hope you will join me at the Pérez Museum …
Four Ways of Seeing the Future
We’re halfway through the serial publication of CFM’s set of scenarios for museum planning! Bright and dark versions of the year 2040, crowdsourced from the hopes and fears of AAMers, are available now, and our third scenario will be …
A Suggestion Box is Not Going to Fix a Riot
I love a good immersive futurist exercise. One of the earliest CFM events involved recruiting museum people to create museum narratives for Superstruct, the Institute for the Future’s Massive Multi-player Online Forecasting game. But …
