Rene G. Cepeda

Museologician: a blog about my thoughts and experiences in art history and museums.

Preserving our digital heritage

As technology advances more and more, we are now faced with more than 4 decades of truly digital heritage, heritage that even now is often misunderstood and ignored. Things such as web video, music, Software (Video games, office tools, etc.), Digital illustration, 3D models, Flash animations and interactive, multimedia… things (i hesitate to call them…

January 11, 2013
A reaction to Nick Poole’s piece: Culture must always be a Commons

As I read Culture must always be a commons, I started thinking of several issues I ran into when writing my Masters Thesis. The most important being Copyright; For a long time copyright existed as a way to ensure artists had a steady income so they could continue to produce art, however,

November 7, 2012
“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…

October 2, 2012
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…

October 2, 2012
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…

August 28, 2012
Mobile Apps in the Modern Museum

Today I will talk about Mobile Apps in museums. First I will address the issues that hamper their implementation and then approach the posibilites finalizing with my “ideal” museum app for a world art museum.

June 14, 2012
Couch art & Thinking art, or how i learned to stop worrying and love art.

Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions, and may in fact be wrong, I don’t claim to have any theoretical backup, I am just expressing my particular views on art appreciation. For a long time I believed that for art to be “good” it had to meet certain criteria. Criteria based on my upbringing in a…

May 9, 2012
A great example of unrelated technology assisting Museums

Sometimes due to lack of resources, distances, expenses or many other factors, we find our work limited in certain ways. This is where enterprising minds find alternate ways to achieve results. While this example is used to plan ahead the lighting of a photography, other technologies can be used to assist museums in planning exhibitions, or even…

April 16, 2012
Artichaut Galeria

I am proud to announce that soon Artichaut Galeria will be up and running and that I am the curator. Please follow us at: Twitter Facebook Pinterest

March 28, 2012
Museums as entertainment

Usually when we talk about museums, the general perception is that they are culture and that they exist outside of what we consider entertainment. However when we consider how we divide the time in our day, museums and culture in general definitely take place during our free time.

March 23, 2012