Rene G. Cepeda

Tag: behind the scenes

  • New exhibition: lugares y memorias fragmentadas

    New exhibition: lugares y memorias fragmentadas

    On August 13 the exhibition Lugares y Memorias Fragmentadas will open at universidad de las Americas Puebla, which I curated and shows a collection of photographs taken during my trips of the last five years. This is a personal and professional highlight that could not have happened without the support of the university and the…

  • 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…

  • When Data Visualization of Art Becomes Art Itself

    Usually data analysis means hundreds of numbers and powerpoint graphs, however Frederik Brodbeck offers us an interesting and visually captivating way to analyze movies. Or as he puts it: “cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such…

  • 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…

  • Setting up Duprat