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Stories in the Art Museum
The theme of this year’s Alliance annual meeting is “storytelling.” However, if you are attending the meeting in Baltimore today, you probably aren’t reading the Blog! For those of you who can’t join us this year, recurring CFM guest … -
Futurist Friday: Bits to Bytes to Bits
Your Friday viewing assignment: a video from the Smithsonian flaunting their 3D scanning and printing chops. These projects, tackling objects ranging from orchids to gunboats, show how this rapidly accelerating technology can be harnessed … -
Relentlessly Social at the Annual Meeting
Guzel duChateau, the Alliance’s New Media Manager, dishes on how we are going social in Baltimore. This year the Alliance is doing something new at the Baltimore Annual Meeting. For the length of the conference we’re running a Social … -
Earn Your Future Traveler Badge in Baltimore
Ready for the road to the Alliance annual meeting? Podcastsloaded for the journey? Plane/train readingall picked out? One last thing–take a minute to learn about a new way to share some of the great stuff you are going to hear, and … -
3-D Printing Digital Fabrication Unleashes Creativity
3-D printing is the closest we’ve come so far to making real-life versions of the “replicators” from Star Trek. 2012 was the breakout year for this technology, as it spread from the home workshops of Makers to new public “hackerspaces” and … -
Futurist Friday: Stranger than Fiction
Looking for content to listen to on the way to the Alliance annual meeting? Slate magazine recently launched a six episode podcast–“Stranger than Fiction.” Each week, Tim Wu, a Future Tense Fellow at the New American … -
Make Art, Meet Strangers
Here’s a story that demonstrates the power of social media to create community: I met Jeff Greenspan via Twitter after I retweeted Michelle DelCarlo (@popupmuseum) when she wrote “Creating communal rather than ‘in tandem’ … -
Art, 3D Printing & Collections: Museums in the Post-Audience Era
For the past three years CFM has sponsored an “artist interpreting the future of museums” in the AAM Showcase. (In 2010 it was the The Pinky Show, 2011 Tracy Hicks, and in 2012 the Drawing Club.) This year we are doing something a little … -
Futurist Friday: Robo-bees to the Rescue
This post from Scientific American paints a lovely picture of the future of disaster response. “Consider a rescue worker with a box full of 1,000 RoboBees—a package that would weigh less than a kilogram. The RoboBees could be … -
MOOCs and the Museum
Are you paying attention to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)? You should be. These courses, offering free education on an enormous scale, are a bright spot in the dark landscape of rising educational debt. While they are still very …
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