Rene G. Cepeda

Tag: museology

  • New Publication is Up

    I wanted to share with all of you my latest academic article “Making a Manual: The Manual for the Curation and Display of Interactive New Media Art“, published in Artnodes. Abstract While the study of new media art is diverse and encompasses a wide range of art practices, curatorial and art historical concerns, as well…

  • Rizoma: Panoramas Alternos

    Rizoma: Panoramas Alternos

    If you are in Oaxaca I highly recommend you visit my latest exhibition featuring the works of renowned Mexican artist Luis Canseco. Visit us at Cordoba Lab in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico. 5 de mayo 217-A Jalatlaco, Oaxaca, México

  • My latest exhibition is up!

    Header/Footer Gallery is pleased to showcase the work of Chloé Lee, the 2022 recipient of the inaugural New Media Caucus Microgrant: https://nmc-2022-microgrant-award.webflow.io

  • New episode of H/F Presents is up

    New episode of H/F Presents is up

    In this episode, producer Harshini Karunaratne and I talk about our experiences at isea2022 in Barcelona.

  • New Workshop Coming Up

    New Workshop Coming Up

    I’m excited to announce that I will be giving a small workshop on virtual exhibition design strategy, workflows and efficient design for the Museum Learning Hub. Its free and no need to register but you get extra materials if you do.  Home

  • Current progress and future projects

    Current progress and future projects

    First and foremost my PhD on the curation and display of interactive new media art has reached first draft phase and will enter its final year of refining and retouching before its openly available to all. Next up is Poppy.Museum an exhibition proposal for an exhibition around Poppy’s work and her relationship to broader art…

  • 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…

  • Lugares y Memorias Fragmentadas: the design process

    Lugares y Memorias Fragmentadas: the design process

    The Sketches helped me create the relationships between the strings and the photographs as well as to plan the three dimensionality of the exhibition space, it is here where I decided to utilise the space and create something more than a line-up of photographs. During the preparation process the photographs were printed and mounted on…

  • A reaction to Nick Poole’s piece: Culture must always be a Commons

    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,

  • 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…