November 2011
2 posts
Coloured Map Showing Route Changes
Ward Map showing route changes by Colour:
Base Map from http://app.toronto.ca/wards/jsp/wards.jsp
TTC Service Changes by Ward
(black = ward number, red = number of routes affected by service changes according to http://www.ttcriders.ca/)
If you haven’t heard, the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission is planning on cutting service to about 62 bus and streetcar routes. After receiving a e-mail from TTCriders that broke down which wards would be effected by each route, I decided to break down the...
April 2011
1 post
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Shifting Gears
Why, hello! Nice to see you today! Yes, I know I’ve been gone for awhile, but I hope that you will forgive me, I’ve been quite busy, you see.
I just finished up the last term of my masters degree courses. As of yesterday, I am offically working full time on my thesis. The more I think about it, the more I get excited. And nervous.
I figured that a good idea would be to dust off this...
December 2010
1 post
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Collections and Collections
I’ve been thinking of this blog as a collection - links and short blurbs on things that I have found interesting. A bibliography of sorts.
I love to collect. When I was a girl I collected TY Beanie Babies (I recently found a box of them: about 50 small adorable beady eyed little creatures). I’ve collected every ticket stub and receipt from concerts and traveling that I’ve done...
November 2010
11 posts
MuseumNerd
One of the twitter feeds featured in the 1st edition of the Artful Word newsletter is MuseumNerd - when I asked them if I could use their twitter profile picture in the newsletter, they helpfully and kindly said yes, and also pointed me in the direction of an interview they did with Hyperallergic in March 2010. I’d like to share this all with you, particulairly this passage:
The feed began...
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Artful Word Newsletter - First Edition
Emperor, John Guthrie, Acrylic on Canvas, 76” x 60”
I’m very happy to present to you the first edition of the Artful Word Newsletter, focusing on Social Media in Museums and Galleries. This edition features an interview with Amrita Chandra, who I would like to thank for her time in contributing to the newsletter.
The .pdf of the newsletter can be found here
I’ve also...
Have you seen But Does It Float yet?
I am a huge fan of the art blog But Does it Float. Not only do they post interesting and beautiful works of art and design, but they accompany each post with a curatorial statement, so to say. Reading this short sentence before viewing the art adds something to the experience and changes what you look for in the post.
Some of my favourite statements:
The man that cannot visualize a horse...
Twitter and Copyright
Would you like to hear something slightly disturbing?
Agence France-Presse is arguing that “Twitter’s terms of service allow third parties broad re-use rights to their content, and thus the photographer’s selection of this mode of digital distribution gave AFP a broad license to redistribute the photographer’s images without consent from the photographer.”
Hyper Allergic in their recent...
Museums and Inclusively - Canada's Pricey Museums
Leah Sandals in her recent piece for This Magazine discusses the fact that Canadian Museums have some of the highest prices in North America.
This is a huge area of concern - how are people to benefit from museums if they can’t feasibly access them? An admission price of $24 or an average of $80 for a family visit (as found at the ROM) certainly presents a barrier for access that can be...
Catching Up
I’ve been MIA this past week so I’ve decided to play a little catch up, by highlighting some new initiatives going on in the museum world -
Call For Proposals - Indianapolis Museum of Art
The Indianapolis Museum of art has recently released a call for proposals and six week residency program for Indianapolis Island in their 100 Acre Outdoor exhibition space. This program will be...
The Powerhouse Museum Embraces Creative Commons... →
The Powerhouse Museum has recently announced that it will be launching a repository of digital images that are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Much like the Brooklyn Museum, the digital image collection will now be available for people to reproduce. Great news!
New Museum's "Free" Catalog
The blog Hyper Allergic has posted a review on the New Muesum’s online catalog for their show Free, that has been published in an online format. As Hyper Allergic points out, the success of the Free catalog lies in the simple layout and easy navigation that doesn’t detract from the content.
Some quotes from the review:
The interactivity is a smooth, intuitive experience, which is a...
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Amrita Chandra on Gartner Voice
For the first edition of the Artful Word newsletter, which should be up later this week, I will be interviewing Amrita Chandra about the use of social media (in particular, blogs and twitter) to engage viewers in gallery space. Amrita is the Senior Director of Marketing at Asigra, a software company in Toronto, and also is the Owner of Tinku Gallery. Tinku was originally a gallery on...
The Brooklyn Museum and Copyright
With the recent release of Bill C-32 in Canada, (also known as Canada’s Copyright Reform Bill), copyright, especially in relation to information distributed and shared on the internet, is becoming a point of contention. I know that when I decided to start this blog, I was concerned about copyright issues, especially when it came to images. This is why the Brooklyn Museum and the way that...
October 2010
10 posts
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A new marketing initiative, perhaps? →
Interesting Happenings:
I’ve stumbled upon some interesting online initiatives going on in the Museum and Gallery world, so I thought I’d throw a post together to highlight some of them:
American Archives on Twitter
The Smithsonian Archives of American Art has a twitter account! The account mostly highlights works that are in their digital archives. Some recent gems are a letter to a Smithsonian curator...
WatchFound through Curated Magazine, a very cool video showing the printing of the Eames Century Modern Catalog.
Original Link
Update - How do comments work?
As you may have noticed - the layout of the blog has changed, and this is to accomodate the new comments feature, horray!
Commenting is facilitated through Disqus, and found on the Tumblr Hacks blog.
Anonymous asked: How does commenting work on this blog?
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Introduction
Lawrence Weiner, An Accumulation… 1981
Hello!
Welcome to the Artful Word, an online blog and newsletter about the intersections of art, text and gallery space. This blog is a research-creation project for the Media Research Lab at Concordia University.
My name is Heather Ferguson, and I’m a masters degree student in the Media Studies Program at Concordia.
The purpose of the...