Rene G. Cepeda

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  • Expression of Emotion

    Expression of Emotion

    I have managed to squirrel some time to write again (this semester was a trial by fire) and thus I will continue with my plan to explain the four most common aesthetic theories. For this post, we will look at Robin George Collingwood’s theory of expression of emotion. In broad terms, the theory tells us…

  • The pleasures of teaching

    The pleasures of teaching

    An undergrad wrote this about my class: “I know that the class had no clear intention to adress any philosophical issues or issues of imperialism, socialism and social injustice, however I noticed that by knowing the culture around us we can get answers to the questions I mentioned above, and understand how things happen the…

  • What is Art?

    What is Art?

      The more semesters I teach, the more I come across this question from my students, and it seems to be asked mostly by art historians and artists. The fact that students in their sixth semester are asking this question is, if nothing else it is interesting that so far into their career, students are…

  • On museum’s relevance

    On museum’s relevance

    “For museums to retain their relevance and become positive partners in the development of our societies, they should use their unique resources and potentials to become more responsive to the dynamics of modern society and urban change.” Emmanuel N. Arinze,1999

  • My first article of hopefully many more to come.

    My first article of hopefully many more to come.

    I had the pleasure to be asked to write for New Union magazine, you can find my article: Self Othering in the World Art here. *The original link is now defunct, so i have published the article on this blog.

  • “If there has been growth…

    “If there has been growth in writing around art in recent years, it has been around art world meta-narratives, not about art objects, artists or the ideas artists pursue or examine in their work. Which is too bad.” -Tyler Green I feel guilty of doing exactly that, and I will try in the future to…

  • My apologies

    I havent been writting much right now because i signed myself up for 3 clases at Coursera.org, Stanford University and University of Pennsylvania on World Music, Interaction Design, Network Dynamics and Creation of artifacts in society AND a course on computer programming from codeacademy.com As you can imagine my life has basically evaporated, however i…

  • England pushes for the Meta-Museum.

    It is incredibly satisfactory to see the world of museums lean towards the digital age, and the latest advancement is the LHF´s push for digital museums is a new way to fund digital projects and a requirement that digital content supported by the HLF be made available for free. From the article: HLF-supported projects will now…

  • Social media: a fast guide for Museums

    As time goes by we hear more and more about social media: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Google+, amongst others are being constantly brought up when discussing social media integration in any kind of business. Museums are of course not immune to social media and in fact are a few of the institutions that can actually benefit…

  • The possibilities of digital media in museums.

    As digital media and video games in particular advance leaps and bounds in terms of interactivity and graphical realism, its time for museums to take a look at the possibilities implied in them. Not only does this mean that consumer level computers can now access photo realistic models of objects in a collection, but that a virtual…