Mar Dixon, independent museum practitioner and the project's developer, explained how she launched the initiative on Twitter with an open brief – take a selfie in a museum – and watched it develop into an event with a global profile.
A 30-year veteran of the museum who began his art career as a ceramicist and studio glass blower, Mr. Street has made virtual models of more sculptures and artifacts than any other museum practitioner of three-dimensional scanning.
This effort brought together museum practitioners, learning researchers, and evolutionary scientists to develop best practices for displaying and teaching the Tree of Life.
Martha Henson (my co-producer at Wellcome Collection) and I met Alex Butterworth of Amblr at one of Frank Boyd's Crossover Labs, which brought together creative practitioners and museum curators for a week of intensive idea development.
We modelled the geographic distributions of 435 endemic plants and all 347 endemic vertebrate species, from existing museum and herbaria specimens at a regional conservation practitioner's scale (1 250,000-1 1,000,000), based on the best available tools and geographic data.
The day was dedicated to projects, ideas and experiments by museums, arts organisations and practitioners who are using data to create real change.
Museum restoration work is typically done in house by the museum's own conservators, as India has myriad laws governing public sector institutions that often prohibit private practitioners from participating in public projects.
While conservators in a museum setting work towards exhibitions that are scheduled years in advance, private practitioners often have to work at a much faster clip, while still upholding the required methodological and ethical standards.
To this day, the Viennese are keen practitioners of bureaucratic administration, and relevant documents are prominently displayed at the museum.
Both lack experience in museum administration but have plenty of hands-on, real-world experience running businesses, collaborating with other practitioners and making creative things happen in the fields their museums focus on.
But because the museum focuses on the applied arts, the exhibition portrays virus writing as a kind of craft whose practitioners aim to shape code into an elegantly concise, dramatically effective form.
