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About Shelley Bernstein
Shelley is the Chief of Technology at the Brooklyn Museum where she works to further the Museum's community-oriented mission through projects including free public wireless access, web-enabled comment books, projects for mobile devices and putting the Brooklyn Museum collection online. She is the initiator and community manager of the Museum's initiatives on the social web, she co-created 1stfans: a socially networked museum membership, organized Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition and Split Second: Indian Paintings. In 2010, Shelley was named one of the 40 Under 40 in Crain's New York Business and she's been featured in the New York Times. She can be found biking to work or driving '74 VW Super Beetle in Red Hook, Brooklyn with her dog Teddy. ::contact::QR in the New Year?
A while back, I reported that we were in the process of a trial period with QR codes. We’ve just taken a look at the stats, so I’m giving a run down of what we’ve seen. If I asked the … Continue reading
In the Gallery vs. Online: How a Split Second Can Differ
One of the questions people always ask me is how web differs from what happens in the building and that’s a difficult thing to get metrics on. With Split Second, we are in a unique position to answer that question … Continue reading
Proving a Point with Google Images
When most of us think about the roaring twenties, we envision scenes of flappers cutting loose on the dance floor, bustling cities filling with new cars and buildings scraping the sky, Prohibition and citizens fighting for their rights. Right? Well, … Continue reading
Give a Flower, Share Your Experience
As Eugenie noted in her post, The Moving Garden is installed in our Rubin Pavilion and the artist invites the visitor to take a flower from the installation on the condition that the person takes a detour on the way … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Art, Technology
Tagged flickr, flowers, instagram, interactive, ipad, mingwei, sms, socialmedia, twitter
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QR Code Conundrum
I’ve long been a critic of QR Codes. When I look around, I see low adoption rates, technical hurdles for end users and some really annoying uses in the marketing sector—who wants that? As critical as I am, there have … Continue reading
The Avatar and the iPad: Lessons Learned
As Jenny mentioned in her previous post, we had an interactive running on a series of iPads in Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue Skinned Savior and now that the exhibition has closed, it’s time to share our evaluation of the project. We were … Continue reading
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
An interesting post popped up at ReadWriteWeb yesterday that evaluates our social media efforts across platforms—the author questions if we are spread too thin and in my response you’ll find me making a passionate argument about the choices we’ve made. The post does … Continue reading
Come visit your data in Split Second
Watching Split Second: Indian Paintings get installed into the gallery this week has been a real thrill for me. I believe it is vital that digital projects inhabit the museum in real space, not just sit online and I’m privileged enough to … Continue reading
Help us pin Brooklyn to the map!
If you know and love Brooklyn we need your help to get 300+ images from our collection pinned to Historypin’s map before their launch on July 11, 2011. If we don’t get cracking, Brooklyn is going to be woefully under-represented … Continue reading
35 Animal Mummies meet Twitter and Instagr.am
If you read Lisa’s post on the animal mummy field trip to the Animal Medical Center and got as excited as we did, follow us on Twitter and Instagr.am because we are going to accompany the conservators and curators and … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Egyptian Art, Technology
Tagged instagram, mummy, mummyCT, twitter
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Come hack with us at TechCrunch Disrupt!
It’s been two years since we released our collections database API and since that time we’ve seen a variety of use from iPhone and iPad apps to integration of our data in other collection projects. As part of the thinking … Continue reading
Brooklyn Museum API: Collections iPad App
Our collection data can now be found on the iPad courtesy of Wayne Bishop and his Art Collections app. The app uses our API and we’re pretty happy to see a developer pick up our data and run with it … Continue reading
Split Second Thank You
The online evaluation phase of Split Second: Indian Paintings came to a close yesterday evening and now it’s time to say thanks to everyone who gave us some of their time to help us build the show that will open this summer. … Continue reading
Next up, what you see is what you get.
This post continues the discussion about the tool we developed for Split Second. Once you get past stressing and (possibly) scrolling in the timed trial, the tool asks you to slow down and consider a work in various ways prior to … Continue reading
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Poetry Comes to our Collection Online
Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? To celebrate, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor’s office is hosting Poem In Your Pocket Day and we are taking part. If you show up this Thursday, April 14th … Continue reading…