Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog » Degas http://www.imamuseum.org/blog The IMA blog is a space to discuss everything related to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:51:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Pharmacy http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/12/07/the-pharmacy-17/ http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/12/07/the-pharmacy-17/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:29:37 +0000 Kate http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/?p=9911 the-pharmacy-title

The Pharmacy prescribes the following links to combat Monday online anemia.

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ArtBabble Video: Mary Heilmann: Inspiration

For every piece of Mary Heilmann’s work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections, stories spun from her imagination, and references to music, aesthetic influences, and dreams, her paintings are like meditations or icons. Her compositions are often hybrid spatial environments that juxtapose two- and three-dimensional renderings in a single frame, join several canvases into new works, or create diptychs of paintings and photographs in the form of prints, slideshows, and videos. Heilmann sometimes installs her paintings alongside chairs and benches that she builds by hand, an open invitation for viewers to socialize and contemplate her work communally.


IMA Work of Art:

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Young Woman in Blue by Edgar Degas

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art21: 6 new vids on ArtBabble–with notes!–feat. Shonibare, Baldessari, Heilmann, Weems, Koons, and McCarthy: http://bit.ly/4UiHx1

]]> http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/12/07/the-pharmacy-17/feed/ 0 the-pharmacy-title http://www.thedieline.com/blog/ Screen shot 2009-09-28 at 8.41.13 AM http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/60255136/Art21-300x300_bigger.gif Once More… With Feeling! http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2008/02/12/once-more-with-feeling/ http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2008/02/12/once-more-with-feeling/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:18:55 +0000 Rob Stein http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2008/02/12/once-more-with-feeling/ For a while now I’ve been interested in how we can do a better job of recording people’s thoughts and impressions about art online. Museums spend a lot of time caring for our collections and making sure that our information about art is “oh so perfect”, but when it comes right down to it, it’s really amazing the types and varieties of new insights you come across when you just ask people what they think!

That’s why I was pretty intrigued by a new tool called Moody that lets you “Mood Tag” your iTunes playlists with how these songs make you feel.

Mood Tag your music with Moody

What a great idea! With this tool you simply click a colored square to assign a degree of “mood” to each song as you are listening to them. This morning I was air drumming along to “Lucretia MacEvil” on my way into work… Personally I’d tag that with Intense and Happy! However, chillin’ out with my Sunday morning paper and cup of coffee seems to be more in line with some Stan Getz bossa nova grooves (i.e. Calm, Happy).

Here at the museum we’ve been working on ways to use social tagging to help people find our art more easily and to be able to describe it in their own words. You can see this in action by checking out any of our artworks online. One with some great tags is “Young Woman in Blue” by Edgar Degas.

TagCloud for works of art at IMA You can also checkout our TagCloud and click on any term to find other art from our collection that users have tagged. I think this can be a great way to stumble onto new works of art that you might otherwise have a hard time finding with a search tool.

I think it would be really interesting to start collecting thoughts from our visitors about what their emotion or moods are related to particular pieces of art as well! Moody gets it right by using the squares as a metaphore for mood instead of making people come up with their own words to describe this. This sort of non-text based tagging will be really useful as we try to come up with new ways of using the social tagging data that well collect from our visitors.

There are several of us in the museum community thinking about ways to use social tagging and what it means for museums to solicit information from and listen to their users in these ways. IMA and a group of other instiutions has been funded to do research into this as part of a project called steve.museum (http://www.steve.museum) Please check out the website for more information!

Or better yet! Help us with our current round of tagging experiments! You can pop on and tag some art by registering at http://tagger.steve.museum You’ll be shown some art from a number of world class institutions and asked to tag them with your own descriptions. Your tags will help us better understand how we can use these methods to make art easier to find and more engaging in an online setting. Thanks!

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