| | Future developments and trends | | | Futurescape is the London-based independent new media research and development company which focuses on emerging opportunities and innovation in the digital entertainment and social media markets:
Research: Publishing multi-client reports on emerging opportunities in digital media. The most recent titles are 2008: The Birth of Online TV and Marketing Success via Video Social Nets. For further research, read our case studies of social media marketing campaigns. | Three-dimensional virtual worlds are the next frontier for social networks. Among them Kaneva stands out for its simplicity. Forbes.com Special Report
Rocking The Virtual World - Matthew Schifrin 12.24.07, 12:00 AM ET
On the Web Facebook is the flavor of the moment, with 55 million users and a valuation (if you want to extrapolate from what Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) paid for a sliver) of $15 billion. So what's the next big thing? Three-dimensional communities. In a recent study Gartner predicted that by 2011 up to 80% of active Internet users, or 250 million people, will participate online in virtual worlds. | Virtual Museums Library Page a distributed directory of on-line museums
Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp)
A comprehensive directory of on-line museums and museum-related resources. VLmp is supported by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) at: http://vlmp.icom.museum/ | Dream Amsterdam 2008 - After Spencer Tunick in 2007, the renowned composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda (Japan 1966) will create art projects for DREAM AMSTERDAM. Ikeda’s hypnotic work plays with human perception through installations, performances, live concerts, recordings and album releases. His work has been exhibited and presented worldwide, including Tate Modern / Queen Elizabeth Hall (London) and Centre Pompidou / Museum of Modern Art (Paris). He has won important prizes, including the Ars Electronica Golden Nica (2001). Ikeda’s commission for Dream Amsterdam Foundation presents his first large-scale artworks for public spaces and marks a new direction in his artistic career.
DREAM AMSTERDAM 2008 is realized in collaboration with UK arts production company Forma and takes place within the frame of the Holland Festival. The OPENING EVENT on June 6, is realized in collaboration with Paradiso. Forma represents Ryoji Ikeda worldwide to produce and tour his work. | Art Market Trends 2007 (From Artprice)
Artprice publishes its exclusive art market report that more than 6,300 international media and institutions rely on each year. Based on the 5,4 million auction recorded by 2,900 auction houses, "Art Market Trends 2007" is a 44-pages report of macroeconomics and microeconomics analyses updated to match the auction events and the artworks prices evolutions.
This report published by ArtMarketInsight, Artprice's press agency, in collaboration with Artprice's econometrics department also includes genuine rankings such as the TOP 500 artists by turnover, the 100 highest auctions of the year.
Contents
* Edito
* The speculative bubble on the art market reached its peak in 2007
* Suicidal competition
* The United States consolidates it market leader position
* London, an ideal terrain for speculation
* China moves up to the number 3 position in the global art market
* Drouot: last bastion of the French art market?
* Is the worst yet to come? The Art Market Confidence Index - a useful tool
* The TOP 10 artists
Download pdf in French and English | Collecting Contemporary: Million $ Masterpieces
A look at what's hot in contemporary art collecting for 2007 and 2008.
2007-12-07 - Forbes Video | | Visual art: The focus is on the new, the trendy, the hip, the cool
Amid all the exhibits of modern and contemporary art, a display of ancient Chinese artifacts will come to Orange County.
By RICHARD CHANG - The Orange County Register - Friday, September 21, 2007
It's going to be another busy season – and busy new year – in visual art. The bigger institutions are preparing their hallmark exhibitions, while the smaller art centers are aiming to present works that stimulate thought, pleasure, dialogue and, hopefully, repeat visits.
Modern and contemporary art seem to be favorites, with a "Birth of the Cool" exhibit at the Orange County Museum of Art, a "Dalí: Paintings & Film" show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and a big "California Video" survey next year at the Getty.
Move over "Star Trek": Seven artists will explore the "vinyl frontier" at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, while 14 international artists will incorporate animation concepts and technologies at the San Diego Museum of Art | The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research-oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions. The web-based, cost-free instrument - appropriate to the needs of process art - allows individuals to post material themselves. | Deep Screen – Art in Digital Culture:
Voorstel tot Gemeentelijke Kunstaankopen 2008
30.05.08 - 30.09.08
Deep Screen – Voorstel voor Gemeentelijke Kunstaankopen 2008 presenteert hedendaagse kunstwerken die sporen van de digitale cultuur in zich dragen. De jury, onder voorzitterschap van gastcurator Andreas Broeckmann, selecteerde 18 kunstenaars uit meer dan 200 inzendingen.
Tijdens de tentoonstelling in Stedelijk Museum CS maakt directeur Gijs van Tuyl een keuze van werk dat wordt aangekocht voor de collectie van het museum.
De toenemende digitalisering van onze cultuur heeft gevolgen voor de kunsten. We maken snapshots met een mobieltje, kiezen met één blik op het scherm digitale foto’s en creëren onze eigen werkelijkheid met behulp van Photoshop en iPhoto. De invloed op de kunst is te zien aan het tijdelijke karakter van de gebruikte beelden, waarbij proces, herhaling en verandering sleutelwoorden zijn. | | De website drenthekunstbreed.nl presenteert alle buitenobjecten, kunstenaars en galerieën in de provincie Drenthe.
Door het vastleggen van de beelden, galerieën en kunstenaars via foto en gps, gekoppeld aan een kaart van Drenthe, is deze informatie wereldwijd op te vragen door kunstzoeker/toerist maar uiteraard ook door de Drentse bevolking zelf. | YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED: THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM PRESENTS A NEW CONTEMPORARY VIDEO INSTALLATION THAT INCORPORATES THE VIEWER
Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen
At the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, Opening September 18, 2007
LOS ANGELES—Home décor magazines tantalize readers with fantasies of ideal modern living. Museum period rooms do the same, encouraging visitors’ capacity to imagine lifestyles from groupings of objects and interiors that evoke an authentic historical time and place. In each scenario, the viewer remains an outsider, the ramifications of belonging and owning untested.
By inviting visitors to step into the picture in Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen, the artist provides the audience with the opportunity to move beyond the role of voyeur and become an active participant in the work.
Sit in a replica of one of Marie Antoinette's chairs in a new exhibit at the Getty Center in Brentwood and, through wizardry involving surveillance cameras and projection systems, you'll find yourself inserted into video footage of her bedroom at the Petit Trianon, the queen's private retreat on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles. It's just part of a new interactive exhibit by New York-based video artist Nicole Cohen intended to bring fresh interest to the Getty's collection of French period furniture. | Mefeedia: Discover the Video WebTM
Mefeedia is a service that helps you “Discover the Video WebTM“. Mefeedia aggregates web shows, video blogs, and video feeds from over 15,000 video websites and video sharing sites – making it simple, easy, and fast to find and enjoy what you want to watch. On Mefeedia.com, you can then create a “Personal Media Channel” that keeps track of your favorite video shows, recommends new shows based on your interests and your friends interests, and updates automatically when there is a new episode. You can then watch those videos on Mefeedia, on your mobile device, or wherever you want. | The 8th Communicating the Museum conference
The leading international meeting place for museum and cultural marketing and communication professionals
"Communication Strategies: How to make an impact" 25 - 28 June 2008, Venice, Italy
Are you a marketing or communication professional looking for fresh and innovative ideas to plan your communication strategies? The Communicating the Museum conference, now in it's 8th year, has chosen "Communication Strategies: How to make an impact" as this year's principal theme. How to make an impact has become vital for any organisation building a smart communication strategy and is the key to any organisation's success - whether it be a strategy for the long or the short term, a permanent collection or a temporary exhibition. Topics covered include strategic planning in: Audience Research and Development, New Media, Advertising, Programming and more. | Tech Trends to Ignore
Some are just not necessary, others aren't fully developed. From social networking sites to virtualization, take a pass for now, by Gene Marks | | | | | | | | | |
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