Thanks all for some great reports thus far on what you personally, as
artists and curators, do to document your exhibitions. We've heard
from Kelli as to the Tate's approach, though I would be interested to
hear more institutional responses too.
As Kelli indicated,
>> People do put things on these sites, you can't stop that. The most
>> significant documentation of the Unilever Series: Olafur Eliasson
>> is arguably on Flicker.
but what about YouTube and video sharing sites also? I know that
there are videos of the exhibitions in Laboral, in Spain, there, as
Beryl and Christiane pointed out earlier. Presumably there are some
linked to myspace pages too. I've been reading a blog about web 2.0
and museums and Nina Simon has this useful advice:
http://www.museumtwo.com/2007/04/backwards-interview-my-advice-for.html
She also talks in an earlier post about using Twitter as a kind of
information alert for activities/events happening in the museum...
though that is slightly outside of our remit here.
I really like Vince's point about the web in contrast to the catalogue:
On 17 May 2007, at 05:58, Vince wrote:
> --- In my latest curated project, we had an exhibition website
> developed as part of the overall project. This was designed with
> the provision for easily updating and adding content, including
> subsequent gallery documentation, etc. I certainly think providing
> the facility for enabling online collaboration is an interesting
> area needing further investigation. If we think how a catalogue
> operates: it, by necessity as much as anything, /precedes/ the
> actual exhibition. Paradoxically, the catalogue ends up acting as
> the primary means of how an exhibition is historicized (documented,
> archived, remembered). Online modes offering social networking seem
> to offer a way of supplementing the actual staging of an
> exhibition, with the means of operating /during/ the show and even
> continuing to function as a way of extending an exhibition's
> 'shelf-life', if you will.
This is exactly what is hoped with the online catalogue for the David
Rokeby exhibition at FACT.
We've been thinking - observing Mute magazine and Proboscis's print
on demand projects - about making a 'reader' after the end of the
show at the Edith Russ Haus... a nice throwback to the 7-11 and Thing
readers of old!
Sarah
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