Category Archives: Technology

The Avatar and the iPad: Lessons Learned

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

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…

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Split Second Stats #4: Engagement

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Beau Sievers

In previous Split Second blog posts, we looked at the effects of thin-slicing, textual information, and gender. Put another way, we were studying the effects of how long you look at the art, what sort of accompanying text there is, … Continue reading…

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How has your culture shaped your life and accomplishments?

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Lisa Small

All eyes will be on you this fall when you enter the Great Hall and encounter the twenty-five massive photographic portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders that comprise The Latino List. Those of you who remember his incredibly popular and thought-provoking 2008 … Continue reading…

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

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…

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Split Second Stats #3: Gender and Information

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Beau Sievers

In the last blog post about Split Second, I talked about how adding extra information about a work changed what people thought about it. In general, adding information about a work causes ratings to increase. However, this isn’t the whole … Continue reading…

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Geotag Brooklyn

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Deborah Wythe

Trying to track the history of the images of Brooklyn that we’re geotagging for #mapBK on Flickr and Twitter and then porting to Historypin reminds me of the game of tag, with kids dashing from one side of the yard to another. This … Continue reading…

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Split Second Stats #2: Adding Information

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Beau Sievers

Last week I talked about our Split Second: Indian Paintings exhibition and Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. In the previous post I described the first section of the online experiment we created for Split Second, … Continue reading…

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Split Second Stats #1: Thin-slicing vs. unlimited time

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Beau Sievers

A big inspiration for Split Second: Indian Paintings was the book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. Blink introduced the general public to the idea of “thin-slicing,” the notion that “decisions made very quickly can be … Continue reading…

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Come visit your data in Split Second

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

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…

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The Avatar and the iPad

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Jennifer Bantz

Early in the planning stages for the Vishnu exhibition, Joan, Shelley, and I began talking about building a tool that could offer an engaging entry point to Vishnu’s many avatars. Each avatar has individual traits and a wonderfully complex set … Continue reading…

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Help us pin Brooklyn to the map!

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

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…

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35 Animal Mummies meet Twitter and Instagr.am

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

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…

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Come hack with us at TechCrunch Disrupt!

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

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…

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Brooklyn Museum API: Collections iPad App

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

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…

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Split Second Thank You

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

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…

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