It always seem to be that I get asked about how to get sound outdoors for art installations. Whether it is a soundscape, speech or music, bringing audio into outdoor environment let’s you shift the experiences and feelings of your audience and provides another creative aspect for you to play with as an artist. In…
One Year On
It suddenly dawned on me yesterday that it has been one year since I began the journey of freelancing. What better time to reflect, especially as for the last three weeks I have been up to my eyes in a project that is taking up every minute of the day and I could do with…
An Oblique Strategy NFC Idol
I’ve found Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies a powerful way of breaking out of a creative rut. In music, I often used them within a band to force us to shift our thinking. We would end up swapping instruments, inverting chords or playing with a new dynamic. In the end, we may end up coming back…
Digital Participation in Museums and Galleries
I was recently invited over to Amos Rex, Helsinki to speak at the Museum Theme Days conference about digital participation. It was great couple of days with some really interesting peers working in Finland. I thought I’d share some incomplete, sloppily captioned and edited slides from the lecture I gave which explore how and why…
hARTckathon: a hack to open up contemporary art for your visitors
How do you make the difficult subject of contemporary art accessible for people who have never encountered it before? This question keeps many museum educators, curators and editors awake at night and is somewhat a holy grail in gallery interpretation. Last week I was in Vilnius, Lithuania for a hackathon which posed the challenge of…
3D printing and scans of sculptures and collections in museum learning
Taking a national museum out of the walls of South Kensington to those who can’t make a visit is so important for making sure that culture and collections are accessible to everyone. I want to share our approach with you so that you can try yourself and have some useful tips from what we learned…
Behind the scenes at the museum
It’s almost as if museum employees have to spend so much time obsessing about appearances out in the public that once it’s out of sight, out of mind, it’s anyone’s game. Here are some glimpses of behind those “Staff Only” doors at some of the stranger things you may find. Warning: contains a prevalence of creepy…