Was Cloudflare’s Termination of the Daily Stormer Ethical?
On August 16, 2017, Cloudflare revoked its cyber-protection service from the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website (Newman, 2017). The ethical issue at stake concerns internet censorship and who gets to decide what speech stays online. Did Cloudflare ethically act when it made this exception to its position of neutrality?
Call for Participants: Museum Digital COVID-19 Research Study
We are living through history. Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping society. When Americans began practicing “social distancing” and following orders to shelter-in-place, museums and cultural organizations moved quickly to cease public visitation. But even as our institutions closed their physical doors, we have opened digital windows. Read more
Building for Discovery: A Purpose-Built Gallery Space for Marianist History at St. Mary’s University
NAMPUS at St. Mary’s needed a facility to tell stories with their historic objects and photographs. We transformed an unused lobby into a flexible display space, complete with the inaugural exhibition. The result is the one of the most beautiful and atmospheric spaces on campus.
Spellerberg Projects 2019 Year In Review
We showed a lot of great art this year. Exhibitions at the Main St Gallery focused on photography: I curated Elijah Barrett’s Rockport, an examination of the impact of our changing climate on communities along the Texas coast; and then Elijah curated Cristina Velásquez’s New World, a consideration of agricultural labor in her native Columbia…
MCN Field Trips Open up Dialog With Host-City Artists
This piece is cross-posted on the MCN Blog. MCN is all about facilitating connections for museum professionals. For the 2018 conference in Denver, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to help introduce a new format, MCN Field Trips, that opened up opportunities for spatial and dialectic exploration. Read more
Presentation at WordCamp NYC 2018
Zack Rothauser and I will be heading to WordCamp NYC 2018 to give a presentation on the Clyfford Still Museum’s web-based touchscreen video platform.
Bringing Warhol to Life Online: Strategy, Design, and Accessibility for warhol.org
We worked The Andy Warhol Museum, conducting a comprehensive overhaul of warhol.org. Launched in May 2017, The redesign included migrating the backend to WordPress, redesigning the frontend, establishing a content strategy, implementing a new information architecture, and auditing and rewriting all text and images.
Presentations at MCN 2018
I’m involved in three presentations at this year’s MCN conference: “Proud to be Flesh: Cultural Spaces After the Internet,” which will be a conversation between museum technologists and local artists; “Understanding our audiences,” about the Whitney’s Website Visitor Survey and its broader context; and “Emotion, Intimacy and Space,” about designing and developing the Clyfford Still Museum’s In-Gallery Video Kiosk System.
Understanding Online Museum Audiences: Academic Research on Digital Visitor Motivations
Circa 2016, we co-led a study into the motivations of museum website visitors, with 23 institutions participating. We presented this work through several conference presentations and in an article in the Journal of Digital & Social Media Marketing. For an overview of the project, see our post about the MW 2016 presentation. Read more
Web-based Touchscreen Video Kiosk Platform for the Clyfford Still Museum
Clyfford Still Museum’s new video kiosk platform was built to scale with the museum’s growing video library. The priorities for the system were to make the videos accessible to people with hearing impairments; to design a system that could be… Read more
Presentations at WordCamp DC & WordCamp Austin, 2017
In 2017 I presented at two WordCamps: DC with Desi González, and Austin with Zack Rothauser. Here’s how we described the DC talk: In May 2017, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA rolled out a redesigned website, built on on WordPress. Read more
Workshops for Artists, Filmmakers and Community & Art Organizations
I’ll be in Toronto presenting at LIFT and the Directors Guild of Canada this October. The first is focused on getting individual artists and filmmakers up-and-running online, with a website and social media accounts. The second is for professionals working with community and arts organizations, helping them focus their communication strategies for maximum relevance. Read more