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Die internationale Konferenz „Digital Curating: Ethics of Access and Sustainability“ (4.–6. März 2026, Universität Münster) diskutiert die ethischen, ökologischen und sozialen Dimensionen digitaler Kuratierung – von KI über Nachhaltigkeit bis zu Fragen von Zugang und Repräsentation.
#DigitalCurating #MuseumStudies #Sustainability
https://arthist.net/archive/51758

Just before Thanksgiving, our Intro to Museum Studies students organized their own pop-up exhibition focusing on portraits from our collection. Because it was only up for three days, we put it online so that everyone can see their hard work. https://georgiamuseum.org/online-exhibitions/known-and-unknown/

#UniversityMuseum #UniversityOfGeorhia #MuseumStudies

This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.

https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-immaterial

#FilmPreservation #VariableMedia #MediaArt #FilmHistory #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #MuseumStudies

This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.

https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-immaterial

#FilmPreservation #VariableMedia #MediaArt #FilmHistory #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #MuseumStudies

This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.

https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-immaterial

#FilmPreservation #VariableMedia #MediaArt #FilmHistory #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #MuseumStudies

This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.

https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-immaterial

#FilmPreservation #VariableMedia #MediaArt #FilmHistory #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #MuseumStudies

This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.

https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-immaterial

#FilmPreservation #VariableMedia #MediaArt #FilmHistory #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #MuseumStudies

When that mossy stone in a New Orleans yard is actually a museum relic dating to the Roman Empire #archaeology #roman #MuseumStudies

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/new-orleans-ancient-roman-grave-marker?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

CFP: Curating and AI
The Journal of Curatorial Studies (Vol. 16.1, Spring 2027) invites articles on curating with and about AI. Topics include AI as medium and method, curatorial practice, research, audience engagement, institutional transformation, authorship, and ethics.

📅 Abstract deadline: Nov 15, 2025
📅 Article deadline: Sept 1, 2026

More: https://arthist.net/archive/50732
#Curating #AI #MuseumStudies #DigitalArtHistory

📢 Call for Papers: Reimagine Curation with New Technologies and Old Dreams
How can immersive tech and curatorial imagination reshape museum narratives? This CAA 2026 session explores XR, AIGC, speculative design & more.

Chaired by Mengge Cao (University of Chicago)
🔗 https://caa.confex.com/caa/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Session16377.html
#DigitalHumanities #MuseumStudies #CuratorialFutures

23. Bayerischer Museumstag 2025

#BayerischerMuseumstag #Museumstag #Museologie #Museumswissenschaft #Museum #Museums #Museen #Museumlove #MuseumStudies #Museology #Museumswesen #Museumskunde #Museumpics #Kultur #Culture

https://museumsberatung-bayern.de/museumstag

📕 Online Museum Collections and Social Media by Katharina Geis (transcript, August 2025)
How do people engage with digitized museum images on Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest?
Based on 90 interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, the study explores digital image curation as a mode of knowing—about, with, and through artefacts.

More info: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5914-6/online-museum-collections-and-social-media/

#MuseumStudies #DigitalMuseums #ImageCuration #DigitalHumanities #SocialMedia #MuseumsOnline #VisualCulture #Ethnography

📕 Online Museum Collections and Social Media by Katharina Geis (transcript, August 2025)
How do people engage with digitized museum images on Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest?
Based on 90 interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, the study explores digital image curation as a mode of knowing—about, with, and through artefacts.

More info: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5914-6/online-museum-collections-and-social-media/

#MuseumStudies #DigitalMuseums #ImageCuration #DigitalHumanities #SocialMedia #MuseumsOnline #VisualCulture #Ethnography

📕 Online Museum Collections and Social Media by Katharina Geis (transcript, August 2025)
How do people engage with digitized museum images on Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest?
Based on 90 interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, the study explores digital image curation as a mode of knowing—about, with, and through artefacts.

More info: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5914-6/online-museum-collections-and-social-media/

#MuseumStudies #DigitalMuseums #ImageCuration #DigitalHumanities #SocialMedia #MuseumsOnline #VisualCulture #Ethnography

📕 Online Museum Collections and Social Media by Katharina Geis (transcript, August 2025)
How do people engage with digitized museum images on Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest?
Based on 90 interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, the study explores digital image curation as a mode of knowing—about, with, and through artefacts.

More info: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5914-6/online-museum-collections-and-social-media/

#MuseumStudies #DigitalMuseums #ImageCuration #DigitalHumanities #SocialMedia #MuseumsOnline #VisualCulture #Ethnography

📕 Online Museum Collections and Social Media by Katharina Geis (transcript, August 2025)
How do people engage with digitized museum images on Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest?
Based on 90 interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, the study explores digital image curation as a mode of knowing—about, with, and through artefacts.

More info: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5914-6/online-museum-collections-and-social-media/

#MuseumStudies #DigitalMuseums #ImageCuration #DigitalHumanities #SocialMedia #MuseumsOnline #VisualCulture #Ethnography

CFP deadline: May 30, 2025
Digital Turn. Collections – Provenance – Markets (HU Berlin, Nov 27–28, 2025) explores how #BigData, #AI & digital tools are reshaping collection, provenance & art market research.
https://arthist.net/archive/47275
#DigitalHumanities #ProvenanceResearch #ArtMarket #GLAM #DataScience #MuseumStudies #NLP #LinkedData

#CFP

2nd International Conference on Sound in Museums

📍 National Museum of Music, Mafra, Portugal
📅 17-19 October 2025

Exploring sound in museum spaces across disciplines. Open to academics, curators, sound artists, designers, engineers & more.

Deadline: 30/04/2025

http://soundinmuseums.com/

#MuseumStudies #SoundStudies #Heritage #Museum #Musicology #Ethnomusicology

Our staff members not only teach every day through unconventional methods, but they also teach through conventional ones. Four Georgia Museum of Art staff members are teaching University of Georgia classes this fall semester, and each is using the museum in a different way to enrich those classes. Read more: https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/teaching-through-the-museum/

#UniversityOfGeorgia #UniversityMuseums #MuseumStudies

Heute enden die Stellen von Ranjamrittika Bhowmik, Pegah Byroum-Wand, Lukas Fuchsgruber und Roos Hopman im Verbundprojekt „Museums and Society – Mapping the Social“ (https://museumsandsociety.net)

Das Projekt läuft im Oktober 2024 aus. Wir blicken auf über drei Jahre gemeinsame Arbeit zu Museen, Gesellschaft und sozialen Bewegungen zurück.

Noch in diesem Jahr erscheinen ein Film von Ranjamrittika Bhowmik und zwei Bücher von Pegah Byroum-Wand und Lukas Fuchsgruber.

Ranja arbeitet an einem Film mit dem Titel „Goddess Durga Unveiled: The Timeless Power of Emotion“, der den Spuren von Durgā als Museumsobjekt, als lebendige Göttin und als Ikone weiblicher Macht nachgeht.

Lukas schreibt ein Buch zur Politik von digitalen Sammlungen. Updates dazu gibt es auch auf seinem Blog https://nullmuseum.hypotheses.org/

Pegah arbeitet an ihrer Publikation „MachtKritikKollaboration – Praxisrefexionen zwischen Aktivismus, Museum und Universität“.

#museums #museumstudies #arthistory #powercriticism #collaboration

My work in the project "Museums and Society - Mapping the Social" comes to an end this summer.

These are zines done with students that came out of seminars from 2021-2024 at TU Berlin on museum data and social issues, critical annotations, virtual reality, and politics of representation.

Two of these seminars were co-taught with my colleagues Freya Schwachenwald and Pegah Byroum-Wand. Some layouts were done by working groups of students themselves, and several by our student researchers in the project, Meryem Coşkun and Julia Reidy. Thanks so much!

You find the PDFs on the website of our project https://museumsandsociety.net/ and soon on a long-term repository.

#museums #museumsarenotneutral #museumstudies #arthistory #museologie #kunstgeschichte #zines #zine

As you probably gathered, I just discovered the Science Museum Group Journal and I am over the moon!
#museum #museumstudies #sciencepop
https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/

As you probably gathered, I just discovered the Science Museum Group Journal and I am over the moon!
#museum #museumstudies #sciencepop
https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/

As you probably gathered, I just discovered the Science Museum Group Journal and I am over the moon!
#museum #museumstudies #sciencepop
https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/

As you probably gathered, I just discovered the Science Museum Group Journal and I am over the moon!
#museum #museumstudies #sciencepop
https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/

As you probably gathered, I just discovered the Science Museum Group Journal and I am over the moon!
#museum #museumstudies #sciencepop
https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/

Images of the World / Weltbilder: A publication on the construction of foreignness and otherness in art.

This booklet in German and English documents a seminar held at the TU Berlin in 2022. The seminar examined how art is used to negotiate and construct worldviews and ideas of foreignness and otherness.

The students explored this question across various Berlin museum collections and with references to other locations such as the Berlin Zoo, focusing primarily on paintings.

Previous version was an interactive website:
https://museumsandsociety.net/en/research/digital-image-worlds/weltbilder

The PDF of the booklet can be downloaded here:
https://museumsandsociety.net/en/news/publications/publikation-weltbilder-als-heft

#museumsandsociety #arthistory #museumstudies #kunstgeschichte
#museumsarenotneutral #museum #museums #colonialism #newmuseology #berlin #studentprojects #zines

Publikation: Weltbilder / Images of the World (booklet is in German and English, EN post: https://hcommons.social/@nullmuseum/112523799669243209)

Dieses Heft dokumentiert ein Seminar im Sommersemester 2022 an der TU Berlin. Das Seminar untersuchte, wie mit Kunst Weltbilder und Ideen von Fremd- und Andersheit verhandelt und konstruiert werden.

Quer durch verschiedene Berliner Museumssammlungen und mit Bezügen zu anderen Orten wie dem Berliner Zoo, untersuchten die Studierenden diese Frage vor allem an Gemälden.

Zuvor erschien eine interaktive Webseite:
https://museumsandsociety.net/de/research/digital-image-worlds/weltbilder

Das Seminar im wurde geleitet von Freya Schwachenwald und Lukas Fuchsgruber. Die Umsetzung als Webseite und Heft erfolgte durch Meryem Coşkun und Julia Reidy (studentische Mitarbeiterinnen im Projekt Museums and Society), unter Verwendung der Referate und Gruppenarbeiten im Seminar.

PDF Download:
https://cms.museumsandsociety.net/assets/weltbilder-3.pdf

#museumsandsociety #museums #museum #arthistory #museumstudies #kunstgeschichte
#museumsarenotneutral

The recording of the KuK-Tuesday on 16 Jan 2024 is now available.

KuK-Tuesday: “Dislocation & Object Lives”

With:

Lizza May David Painter and multidisciplinary artist, Berlin

Dr Emily Teo Project associate, Gotha Research Centre, Erfurt University

Moderated by me. Curated by Diệu Ly Hoàng and Freya Schwachenwald

From the announcement:
From historical research to artistic intervention in collections today, this roundtable invites to critically reflect on the entangled histories of collecting and the construction of difference. What was considered as “Asian” objects? How were these objects collected? What happened to the objects through dislocation? And how to reimagine the relationship between object and human lives today?

#museumstudies #museums #collections #asianart #dislocations #arthistory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnI132X9ng

JOB ALERT! Fully funded (real job) PhD Position on Collecting Latin American Ethnography and Archaeology w/ Martin Berger at Leiden University, in English. Part of a ground breaking provenance project that's going to be amazing. I can't wait to collaborate.
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024/q1/14494-phd-position-on-collecting-latin-american-ethnography-and-archaeology-10-fte

#archaeology #museums #phdPosition #Provenance @archaeodons @museum #Museumstudies #ArtHistory @arthistory

🚨 Estamos a acolher manifestações de interesse para candidaturas às Bolsas de Doutoramento INPhINIT da Fundação "la Caixa", que oferecem condições de excelência para a realização de um doutoramento.

📅 Façam-nos chegar as vossas propostas até 28 de Janeiro

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/bd-lacaixa-2024/

#Histodons #PhDScholarships #BolsasDeDoutoramento #INPhINIT #Anthropodons #MuseumStudies #HistóriaContemporânea #Antropologia #Museus #Património #Heritage #UsesOfThePast #UsosDoPassado #Colonialism #Colonialismo

Se amanhã estiverem perto de Évora, não percam a oportunidade de assistir à aula aberta que a museóloga e educadora Marília Xavier Cury nos vai oferecer.

Na aula, vai discutir como várias “museologias” integradas podem ser produtivas para os avanços museológicos que a sociedade exige.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/museologias-critica/

#Histodons #Museums #Collections #Museology #Museologies #MuseumStudies #HistoryInThePublicSphere #Ethnography #CriticalMuseology #SocialMuseology #Museus #Colecções #Museologia

Se amanhã estiverem perto de Évora, não percam a oportunidade de assistir à aula aberta que a museóloga e educadora Marília Xavier Cury nos vai oferecer.

Na aula, vai discutir como várias “museologias” integradas podem ser produtivas para os avanços museológicos que a sociedade exige.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/museologias-critica/

#Histodons #Museums #Collections #Museology #Museologies #MuseumStudies #HistoryInThePublicSphere #Ethnography #CriticalMuseology #SocialMuseology #Museus #Colecções #Museologia

Se amanhã estiverem perto de Évora, não percam a oportunidade de assistir à aula aberta que a museóloga e educadora Marília Xavier Cury nos vai oferecer.

Na aula, vai discutir como várias “museologias” integradas podem ser produtivas para os avanços museológicos que a sociedade exige.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/museologias-critica/

#Histodons #Museums #Collections #Museology #Museologies #MuseumStudies #HistoryInThePublicSphere #Ethnography #CriticalMuseology #SocialMuseology #Museus #Colecções #Museologia

The zines that our students have produced in the recent years by investigating museum collections and by applying critical theory of race, class and gender. Some of them you can already download on the website of Museums & Society - Mapping the Social (these two are in German):

https://museumsandsociety.net/de/news/publikationen/seminarpublikation-archivieren-sammeln-und-ausstellen-durch-rom-nja-eine-widerst%C3%A4ndige-praxis-booklet

https://museumsandsociety.net/de/news/publikationen/studentische-publikation-zu-museumsdaten

#museums #museumstudies #arthistory #kunstgeschichte

The book "AI in Museums" is out! Edited by @sonjathiel and @jobernha

My contribution is about generating critical information about painting collections with AI.

Buy or read in open access here:
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6710-3/ai-in-museums/

#museumstudies #openglam #artificialintelligence #KI #AI

Eine Dokumentation unserer Ausstellung bei der Berlin Science Week, mit Fotos und kurzen Texten zu den verschiedenen Beiträgen gibt es nun auf dem Blog von Museums and Society - Mapping the Social:

https://museumsandsociety.net/de/news/blog/power-in-of-collections

#museumstudies #arthistory #newmuseology #kunstgeschichte #museen #sammlungen #collections #archives #GLAM

My contribution to the exhibition at Berlin Science Week (1-10 Nov), was about “Mapping the Social in 19th Century Art”. All these examples come from seminars and workshops with students. A little documentation:

https://nullmuseum.hypotheses.org/1038

#museumstudies #arthistory #berlinscienceweek

From the exhibition at Berlin Science Week in the beginning of November:

On top of these paintings from Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, you see diagrams of historical information provided by the museum in their online catalogue and from a project with art history students at TU Berlin, who were digging deeper into questions of power and violence in 19th century paintings. These diagrams were produced by students of Critical Data Studies in Aarhus in October 2023, who received the info from the previous seminar.

These diagrams confront the usual concept of museum databases, where you would only have a limited scope of data about the paintings (size, author, date, etc.) and then a historical perspective in a text description. Transforming the museum description and further historical research into a data graph, brings them in touch with what usually is considered museum data.

#altenationalgalerie #altenationalgalerieberlin #museum #museumstudies #arthistory #berlinscienceweek

Thank you for discussions on collecting and exhibiting art with Kerstin Stakemeier and Nizan Shaked, Sat at TU Berlin, Sun at b-books

Further reading:

N. Shaked Museums and Wealth (2022), K. Stakemeier on Lu Märten (October No 178, 2021), as well as the catalogue illiberal arts (2021)

#museumstudies #arthistory

Recent book acquisitions made by our Research Library, which can be browsed for free on Zotero.org – (a thread) 1/6

#ResearchLibrary #Books #Reading #Research #Sound #SoundStudies #MuseumStudies #History #MediaStudies

Happy #CyberMonday to all those who celebrate.

Now go buy something at our Gift Shop: museumofportablesound.com/giftshop

#Cybermen #GiftShop #MuseumGiftShop #Museum #museumstudies #DoctorWho #TombOfTheCybermen #Mondas #Telos #iPhone4S #iPhone #SoundMuseum #MuseumOfSound #MuseumOfPortableSound #Shopping #SupportUs

When I’m not getting my #TdF2023 fix or fretting about the decline of #democracy and the reemergence of #fascism, I’m helping to organize http://www.historicaldialogues.org.

See ☝️ for our 2024 Network conference announcement. 25-28 June in lovely #Vienna. #histodons #transitionaljustice #memorystudies #museumstudies #museums #academia #humanrights #atrocityprevention #genocide #Holocaust #genocideprevention #activism

Not sure what goes on here at the Museum of Portable Sound? Take two minutes to watch this video & find out what we’re all about!

We're an actual museum, just not like any you've ever visited before...and now we also conduct visits online!

Got questions? Ask away :)

#museum #museums #soundstudies #museumstudies #curation #listening #fieldrecording #phonography #video #aboutus #contactus #visitus

Please remember to register for the conference:
(De)Politicising Art Studies. Marxist Traditions Since 1968 (10-11 Nov, TU Berlin):
http://arthist.net/archive/40388

On day 2 I moderate a panel on Museum Critique and Marxist Art History.

#museumstudies #marxism #arthistory #kunstgeschichte

Thank you for the nice time at the opening of our exhibition at Berlin Science Week at Holzmarkt 25

Tomorrow 12-3 pm some of the participants will be there and engage with the audience

The exhibition runs until the 10th and is open every day 3-7 pm

More info:
https://museumsandsociety.net/en/news/events/the-power-in-of-collections

#museumstudies #collections #museums

Surprised/delighted to walk into the library today and see something I worked on in the new acquisitions display.

Link to the paper:

https://www.academia.edu/35264977/Museums_and_Memorials_as_Sites_of_Dialogue_Historical_Narratives_Mass_Violence_and_Atrocity_Prevention

#HistoricalDialogue #GenPrev #genocide #histodons #collectivememory #MuseumStudies #MemoryStudies

Historically, recorded sound in museums has only been used to provide information about visual objects.

Our museum's objects are recorded sounds.

Find out what it's like to visit a true sound museum! Book a visit today at https://museumofportablesound.com/visit!

Photo: Visitors at the Science Museum, London, use a radio-powered audio tour in 1958.

#Museums #MuseumStudies #SoundStudies #VisitUs #MuseumOfPortableSound #Sounds #SoundObjects #SoundAndMuseums

The reviews are in and we are really going towards a second edition of "Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections".
If there are #gaps in the first edition, please let me know.
Especially looking for real-world examples from #native and #digital #collections

Re-toots appreciated!

#museum #museums #archive #archives #RegistrarLife #MuseumDocumentation #CollectionsManagement #databases #CollectionCare #Conservation #Documentation #UnmanagedCollections #MuseumStudies

I am searching for people who have read "Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections" and have ideas what is missing or what should be improved.

https://world.museumsprojekte.de/managing-previously-unmanaged-collections-revisited-revised-revamped/

Also looking for additional real world examples.

Boosts are appreciated!

#museum #museums #archive #archives #collection #collections #MuseumDocumentation
#MuseumStudies #CollectionsManagement #CollectionCare #Conservation #cataloguing #UnmanagedCollections