For those who are interested in social tagging, or who might have missed the Community Engagement session at MW2008, I have uploaded my slides "Seeing Tibetan Art through Social Tags" along with audio track to Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/s.mannion/seeing-tibetan-art-through-social-tags/

Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age
October 29, 2008
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

A work of art in the context of my personal web space -- in this case, my Facebook profile.... and slate's.

see the related blog posting.

The NOSO site has been out there for a bit -- indeed there was a presentation @ the de Young the end of June -- but i don't recall anyone mentioning it in the museum sphere.

it's a great observation on our dependence on tools to organize our selves, and our [social] lives, and our need to maintain identity through personal space.

drop in, tune out ... i think this is why we have an island.

/jt

The Glenbow Museum (Calgary, AB, CANADA)
Request for Proposal -
Development of an Art Web Project: Artist's Proof: Prints and Printmaking.

The RFP can be downloaded from our contracts webpage http://www.glenbow.org/about/contracts/

Submissions due: Friday, October 5, 2007, 4:30 pm MST

Brief Description: Glenbow Museum, the University of Alberta's Art and Design Department and the University of Calgary's Art Department are working together to develop a substantial online prints resource Artist's Proof - Prints and Printmaking. This project will unify the expertise and content of three distinct partners to develop a comprehensive online project featuring some 2000 works of art, printmaking objects, letters, audio, video, documents and photographs from Glenbow relating to prints in artistic practice from the nineteenth century to the present.

This interactive online experience will include in-depth educational resources and activities to encourage Canadians to learn about the history and art of printmaking. Artist's Proof will present nationally and internationally significant print collections important to the cultural history of Canada. This innovative online learning resource web site on printmaking (to be hosted on Glenbow's site and accessible from all partner's sites) will be developed in French and English.

All inquiries regarding the solicitation must be submitted in writing (facsimile or email) to:

If you are coming to Toronto for ICHIM07, you might want to stay another day for the Toronto International Art Fair, October 26-29, 2007 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (downtown Toronto). The Fair is open to the public from October 26, and is a great opportunity to see a wide variety of contemporary art from dealers around the world (and maybe even acquire something!).

/jt