Hi Holly,
True, I'm more interested in finding where the curve starts for museum computer
gaming. Asking about firsts always seems to generate interesting discussions.
This is part of the background story for my MW session on Second Life. SL
often gets represented as the newest, best thing since sliced bread, but we
already have a foundation of experience with MOOs, VRML, and other types of
virtual environments that make it part of the bigger story.
There has been lots of money poured into these sorts of projects over the
years, but I'm not sure how much knowledge transfer and summative evaluation
has happened. What did we -can we- learn from the bleeding-edge explorations?
Richard
rjurban at uiuc.edu
Original message
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:54:51 -0500
From: Holly Witchey hwitchey at clevelandart.org
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming?
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu, mcn-l at
toronto.mediatrope.com
Pardon me if I put in my two cents here, I think this discussion
encourages an already too prevalent culture of firsts in the museum
world. The great thing about firsts (and administration and p.r. love
them) is we generally learn a whole lot about how not to do things and
what we would do better the next time.
I suspect what Richard is probably looking for is that group of
bleeding-edgers and what was driving or motivating them to do what they
did. Lenore Sarasen's email really put things in perspective for
me--just because folks didn't have access to the same technologies we
do, doesn't mean they were doing the job. After all those buttons which
allowed us to play video or audio in natural history museums got the job
done.
Holly Witchey
Director, New Media Initiatives
The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Blvd.
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Phone: 216-707-2653
Fax: 216-721-4176
Email: hwitchey at clevelandart.org
www.clevelandart.org
www.museumattic.org
(blog) www.musematic.net
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From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
amalyah keshet
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:18 AM
To: mcn-l at toronto.mediatrope.com
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming?
Interesting. I distinctly remember the Dallas Museum of Art being the
first museum I found on the Web.
Amalyah
At 14:25 19/12/2006, you wrote:
I would vote for Dallas Museum of Art - whose former IT director now
works for Microsoft in Dallas
He sure turned me onto the web, and when I started www.mariner.org
for The Mariners' Museum, we were part of that first wave of
websites for museums - thanks to him (I forget his name!)
Mark
- Original Message - From: amalyah keshet
akeshet at netvision.net.il
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 2:33 AM
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming?
So, which WAS the first museum to have a website?
Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il
Chair, MCN IP special interest group www.mcn.edu
Blog www.musematic.net
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