Around the Web
Street Art and AR Confront Topic of Climate Change
Miami’s Wynwood Walls is filled with warehouses and industrial buildings covered in murals. This location has become the center of a project lead by Linda Cheung to bring awareness to the issues of climate change. Linda Cheung is the CEO of Before It’s Too Late, an environmental group, and she is “interested in the merging of art and technology for social justice campaigns.” The group has developed an augmented reality app that bring light to climate change while allowing users to experience difference scenarios presenting the effects of climate change. Using a technology that intrigues people can engage them and motivate them to make positive change.— link to NRDC.
Museums, Libraries, and Social Wellbeing
The Institute for Museum and Library Services has announced a national study that will measure the impact museums and libraries have on a community’s social wellbeing. IMLS is dedicated to helping museums and libraries reach their full potential to serve their communities and this study aims to prove that these organizations positively influence cultural engagement, diversity, social connections.— link to Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Museum-School Relationships
This is an interesting write up about the relationships between schools and museums and the decision-making involved in partnerships between the two. With education policies and initiatives shifting, museums and schools have an evolving relationship. This write up highlights surveys and other references that present perspective from both. — link to Medium.
Museum Collections in the Classroom
Museum in a Box is helping bring museum collections into the classroom for educational purposes. Each box includes a Raspberry Pi computer, a speaker, an amplifier, and a near-field communication reader and allows museums to add their own items which might include 3D printed replicas of objects. This helps bring the museum to the classroom which saves time, money, and other resources that are necessary to bring students to museums. By making these resources available, the museum become more accessible. This project is still in the prototype phase but museums are getting on board with the idea of mobilizing their collections. — link to Mental Floss.
Reinterpreting a Collection
Raycaster Studio has been working on a project with a collection at the Queens Museum. The project focuses on how technology can help reinterpret the memorabilia collection to find new connections and stories between the objects. — link to Medium.

Technology at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Transformer: Native Art in Light & Sound is a current exhibition at NMAI and the installations in this show have a way of slowing you down to make stop and truly experience the works of art. Traditions of storytelling, dance, and communicating with nature are brought to life in a new way through the use of technology.— link to Hyperallergic.
New Digital Art History Research Platform
ARIES is the new digital art history research platform where researchers can view and compare images the way they typically do with light boxes. The platform was created in partnership between the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and the Frick. ARIES is a web-based platform that simplifies exploration and organization of digital collections. While the target audience of the platform includes researchers, art historians, and curators, it is available for use by everyone free of charge. — link to Phys.org.
Art Made by AI
Christie’s New York will be adding art made by artificial intelligence to an auction coming up this fall. The algorithm that was developed by Obvious, a French art collective, produced the print on canvas that will be included in the auction. “The Christie’s sale constitutes an important validation in the realm of AI art.” The proceeds of the auction will go towards further development and training of the algorithm. — link to Artnet.
Hashtags we’re following…
#IMLSgrants
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced 12 new grants they have awarded to museums and libraries to fund projects focused on community development.
#Digifest
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has announced DigiFest, a new digital heritage festival that will take place this fall. The program will give people an opportunity to explore the interaction between the heritage sector and technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality, and 3D modeling.
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