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Blog Unfortunately, we could not do the presentations in a classroom nor through the conference space on Canvas so all students had to record themselves on video. It actually works pretty well, except for that there has not been a feedback moment in person for the students. All students will get personal feedback by Ivo,Continue reading “Presentations w.7”

On week seven, we had our first round of class presentations. These presentations covered a variety of topics, but all were well related to the theoretical framework that was established in class. Britt’s presentation was first, and she discussed the experience of the old Dutch master’s paintings in the post museum setting. This was interestingContinue reading “Class presentations w.7”

Meeting with Professionals, Part Two Part two of our meetings with the professionals at the EYE entailed numerous topics, from the general policy or goal of the museum to the visual and technical practicalities involved when creating the exhibitions. Jaap Guldemond and Claartje Opdam along with guidance from Ivo, were involved in the discussion, whichContinue reading “Sofia Meeting with Professionals Blog Post:”

Michelle Henning noted in her article ‘New Media’ that from the 1970s onwards, the relation between the museum and its visitors changed due to a large result of political and economic changes that began around that time and that it was not merely changing because of introducing new technologies into the museum. Until then, museumsContinue reading “Blog week 4.”

Post week 3 For the blogpost of week 3, I would like to reflect on the article ‘Entering the Flow: Museum Between Archive and Gesamtkunstwerk’ by Boris Groys in relation to the Tarkovsky exhibition in the EYE Filmmuseum. An exhibition goes on view for two or three months – Groys said of the typical institutionalContinue reading “W3 discussion”

Jaap Guldemond and Marente Blomheuvel’s explanation of Francis Alÿs’ Children’s Games, echoes the information on the exhibition walls. The EYE museum was successful in painting a picture of Alÿs and his practice within the exhibition space, exhibition catalogue and on their website. Although the exhibition space was a simple, monomedia space which allowed the visitorContinue reading “W3. Francis Alÿs’ exhibition”

In regard to the locations of the respective exhibitions about Tarkovsky it is immediately striking that a main difference between the two exhibitions can be found in the reception side of it. Tarkovsky was a Russian filmmaker and left a great legacy in his country. Given this fact, I assume that in Russia there areContinue reading “W.3 Tarkovsky’s exhibition”

For Monday, February 10th, we prepared various texts concerning different ideas about the role of new media in the museum. Since the three of us read different texts, we found a prominent theme in all the texts that we read. We decided to take the theme “education” and apply it to Francis Alÿs’ exhibition, Children’sContinue reading “Discussion week 2”

Francis Alÿs’, Children’s Games exhibition consists of a group of short films that are united in that they all show children from different parts of the world all playing different games. The exhibition captures that although these children come from vastly different lands, from Iraq to Belgium, to Nepal, they all share the inherent traitContinue reading “Francis Alÿs”