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This paper outlines how museums could better address the process of developing public programs. It presents a strategy for involving community members more meaningfully in the program development process, in a way that can be tailored to the specific audiences of individual museums. It also addresses the contribution that community-based programs make in fostering diverse museum audiences and points towards ways of expanding sustainable audience support.
Recent government funding for museums in the UK has identified museums as vehicles for addressing socio-economic issues such as urban regeneration and social inclusion. This paper examines the role that geography can play in assessing whether museums are engaging with these issues.
The intention of the collection is always to accumulate, protect and exhibit to make visible and to explain. However, the distinction between the nature and the role of museums has undergone significant evolution, compelling us to study anew how the question of universality has been addressed in the past, and how it is addressed today.
The fourth symposium of the Association of Cultural Management Professionals in Catalonia (APGCC) in Barcelona, 22-23 November, aims to identify skills emerging from the business sector which can have relevance in the field of culture. Specific areas in the arts and heritage as well as related spheres in media, tourism, new technologies, urbanism and landscape will be explored.
Seville hosted the 10th annual ministerial meeting of the International Network on Cultural Policy (INCP) on 20-21 September. The event was attended by delegations from the ministries of culture or equivalent departments in 46 countries, aiming to foster the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and dealing with other emerging issues in the international cultural scene.
The second Congress on Cultural Management and Training was held in Turin on 21-22 September, an initiative of the Fondazione Fitzcarraldo, Regione Piemonte and the Fondazione CRT, sponsored by the City of Turin.
This issue is all about arts management in the Netherlands.
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre hosted an international cultural management summer academy Synaxis Baltica on the topic of Creative Clusters Future Model for the Cultural Field? from 1st to 14th of August.
This volume examines the nature of cultural diplomacy and draws from a conference on cultural diplomacy and includes speeches given by Cultural Ambassador Joel Meyerowitz, Karen L. Perez, Singaporean Artistic Director T. Sasitharan, and articles by Emeritus Professor John Pick, Patrick Hughes and Ruth Bereson.
Box office income remains a sacred cow and a neglected art when it comes to setting budgets in arts organisations. However, a new collection of essays commissioned by Arts Council England - Call it a tenner: the role of pricing in the arts - exposes and debunks some of the myths and legends surrounding ticket pricing and the cost of entry into arts events.
The Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa (OCPA), in cooperation with UNESCO and the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC), is developing a regional directory of African training centres and institutions in the field of cultural policy, administration and management as well as cultural development.
The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden has opened a counterpart in the desert. But only in the virtual world, of course. The three-dimensional clone of the museum can be visited in Second Life®. The magnificent rooms of the museum are reproduced true to scale, and all 750 masterpieces in the exhibition are on display. The doors are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Visitors can view the art, chat with each other, access information about the works of art, participate in art education events, note their impressions in the guestbook or browse in the shop all in real time.
Our special topic for this August newsletter is artist management. How to serve an
artist as a manager or personal assistant? Which challenges artists have to face especially in the music sector? Is it still a dream to become an artist manager at all?
Libraries are strongly related with contemporary questions like life-long-learning or the
usage of digital technologies. No other arts discipline is used by such a broad range of
people. This month we‘d like to bring aspects of library management on the table.
This session in Liverpool (UK) on June 19th, 2007, will show you how you can integrate some of the latest digital developments into your communications and marketing strategy - from MySpace to YouTube, pocast to vodcast, sms to mms and more. This is a new training session and attendance at the previous Mighty Mouse course is not required.
LabforCulture is an online information and knowledge platform dedicated to European cultural cooperation, complemented by a range of offline services and programmed activities. The website provides an unprecedented range of information on cultural cooperation across the broader Europe, as well as offering a platform for transnational cultural exchange, cultural debate, news and research.
In Part II I have traced the coevolution and coconstruction of Art, Science & Technology from the beginning of Western Civilization using changing mathematical epistemes. Beginning with Harmony in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds the episteme shifted to Perspective in the Renaissance then to Motion with the Scientific Revolution and finally to Probability with the second Scientific Revolution. From this review I draw two conclusions.
In this first panel of a triptych of articles, I have defined Art, Science & Technology.
These words are pointers to a gestalt world of knowing. Art is codified knowledge conveying meaning from one human mind to another.
Some Codes are alphabetic, some aural, some visual, some kinetic but always sender and receiver must share and understand the Code if a work is to work. 15 Technology is tooled knowledge, i.e., knowledge fixed in Matter/Energy as function. The subject of both Art & Technology is the Natural Person. Their work is the result of Design, of human purpose, of formal and final causes. Codified and tooled knowledge, however, have no meaning or function without the intermediation of a Natural Person.
These words are pointers to a gestalt world of knowing. Art is codified knowledge conveying meaning from one human mind to another.
Some Codes are alphabetic, some aural, some visual, some kinetic but always sender and receiver must share and understand the Code if a work is to work. 15 Technology is tooled knowledge, i.e., knowledge fixed in Matter/Energy as function. The subject of both Art & Technology is the Natural Person. Their work is the result of Design, of human purpose, of formal and final causes. Codified and tooled knowledge, however, have no meaning or function without the intermediation of a Natural Person.
The special focus in this newsletter issue tries to give you some ideas, how technologies can help your organisation. We portrait solutions and tools, give previews to upcoming conferences, and provide background facts.