“University of California Riverside/California Museum of Photography” by Earle
Conference:
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Title:
- University of California Riverside/California Museum of Photography
Program Title:
- Digital Atelier
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Description:
As we move toward the end of the millennium, museums are rapidly changing. New communities must be addressed, whether they are disenfranchised by economic circumstances or geographic limitations. Through World Wide Web tools. The California Museum of Photography integrates technology, social history, and contemporary art, and provides public opportunities for interaction on several levels.
The museum uses Apple’s Library of Tomorrow program to develop liaisons with classroom teachers, contemporary artists, and the general public. Projects include:
• The VidKids program, partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, in which students use 8 mm video to produce animation, sound, and imaging experiments for the World Wide Web and more direct widearea networks.
• A museum-wide ethernet network that offers visitors an opportunity to browse Internet-based art works.
• Direct connections between classrooms and the museum through CalREN’s Frame Relay experiment with a consortium of Los Angeles schools.
• Forms-based delivery of documents and images that the public can author as a direct feedback technique.
Other Information:
Contributors:
Associate Director
Edward W. Earle
Museum Director
Jonathan Green
Curator of Exhibitions
Kevin Jon Boyle
Museum Educator
Lori Fiacco
Robert Price
Hoffer Elementary School
