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Goodbye Geevor…hello London!
Today’s my last day at Geevor! My time here as flown by! It only seems like yesterday I arrived smartly dressed, bright eyed and bushy tailed and excited about the project ahead. The smart clothes went...
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object retrieval: are you really the route master??
Earlier this week on my way in to work I was faced with a big red bus. Nothing unusual there London is full of them. However this one was parked in the main quad of UCL right in front of the iconic (to...
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bright club: bio film, ‘primitive tribes’, stripy icebergs, world cinema and...
Last night I went to Bright Club, run by UCL’s Public Engagement Unit, In a nut shell it aims to prove that underneath the tweed jackets and elbow patches, academics can be quite funny. You can find...
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The aftermath.
The past 48hours have been quite something. You may or may not have noticed the large amount of press coverage about a certain Mr Murdoch, involving opinions on creativity, culture, humanities, digital...
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Yesterday’s objects: the death and afterlife of every day things: Preserving...
Last week I attended a really interesting event run but the Autopsies group entitled Yesterday’s objects: the death and afterlife of every day things. It gave plenty of food for thought. I really...
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How does a museum move 67,000 specimens into a new venue?
I’ll let Jack and this brilliant video explain moving the Grant Museum… I have only been involved in a small part of this move, the digital part of course, but it has been amazing to watch how it has...
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Categorising digital visitor contributions: Should you take God at face value?
Photo UCL, Grant Museum of Zoology / Matt Clayton I’ve been undertaking some open coded analysis of visitor contributions to the QRator iPad’s in the Grant Museum for my PhD. It is fascinating to...
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A new Frontier: Claire the Exhibition Curator!
Octagon Gallery taken from ucl.ac.uk Alternative Title: I first realised I hated Nick when… I became the Exhibition Curator! Over the next 6 months, I have a new role! I am now the Exhibition Curator...
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Blurring the boundaries between art and data: Listening Post
Yesterday I paid a visit to the Science Museum to try and make sense of all the ideas, objects and themes that are pinging around my head in relation to the new exhibition I’m creating. I originally...
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