Dan Hill from Arup and the author of the wonderful City of Sound blog wrote a review of the Powerhouse’s Modern Times exhibition. In his criticism of the exhibition he wondered where the extra-exhibition content was - especially given the perfect fit between the content of the exhibition and specific places and sites. He describes [...]
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Dan Hill makes a modernism in Australia map for Modern Times (or interesting things clever people do when they have some spare time)
September 2nd, 2008 3 Comments
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Modern Times exhibition on Flickr
August 10th, 2008 No Comments
Last week we started another experiment on Flickr.
At the moment we have an exhibition, Modern Times, which is about modernism in Australia. The exhibition is a quite spectacular mix of objects - including a lovely set of milkbar seats to sit on (!!) - and ends with a triple projector immersive audio-visual experience produced by [...]
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Powerhouse on Facebook
August 10th, 2008 2 Comments
We’ve kept this quiet so far but along with the start of the Sydney Design 08 campaign the Museum launched a small Facebook presence. Importantly this presence is managed as a joint effort between the Museum’s Marketing Department and the Web Services Unit, rather than just being a web project.
Sydney Design has a profile as [...]
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Re-ingesting Flickr tags from the Commons back into our collection OPAC
July 25th, 2008 5 Comments
Today we completed the circle.
We have started presenting the tags that Flickr users have left on our images in the Commons on Flickr in their associated collection records in our online collection database. What this means is that the large number of tags added to our photographic collection in Flickr now are available in our [...]
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The Commons on Flickr: finding the Mosman Bay Falls
June 30th, 2008 No Comments
Whilst we are collating the data to report on the Museum’s first three months in the Commons on Flickr, I’ll share one of the best stories to come from the project for us so far - the story of finding the Mosman Bay Falls.
Amongst our photographs we found two images simply titled ‘Mosman Bay [...]
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