Appel à contributions pour la revue exPositions : « Genre et sexualité dans les expositions des collections muséales »
La revue attend vos propositions d’articles sur cette question, pour un numéro à paraître en 2026
https://www.revue-exposition.com/index.php/appel-contribution
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/
Congrats to Ideas on Fire author Eunsong Kim! Her new book The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property is out now from Duke University Press, and it offers a staunch critique of the racial and sexual politics of US museum and art collecting. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-collecting
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“.
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.
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
Appel à contributions !
"Montrer les collections médiévales" -> on attend vos réflexions sur la façon d'exposer les œuvres du Moyen Âge, sur les discours induits par les expositions, les collections des œuvres de la période, etc.
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Faites circuler et n'hésitez pas à envoyez vos propositions !
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
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
This was a big year for me as an academic. My first book with Routledge came out!
So many people supported this work: friends, mentors, archivists, and many more. Thank you 
#2023 #AmericanExhibitions #FirstBook #ItalyAtWork #MuseumStudies #ArtHistory
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.
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/studentische-publikation-zu-museumsdaten
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/
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
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:
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.
My book review of Caroline M. Riley’s excellent book “MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art” from University of California Press is in the Fall 2023 issue from Panorama for @AHAAamericanart read it here: https://journalpanorama.org/article/moma-goes-to-paris/
#CarolineMRiley #MoMA #ArtHistory #MuseumStudies
