pachyderm conference
Keynote Presenters
Posted September 22nd, 2007 by NMCOpening Plenary Keynote
"What We Talk About When We Tag About Art"
2007 Pachyderm Conference
Posted July 13th, 2007 by NMC
2007 Pachyderm Conference
A Program of the Edward and Betty Marcus
Digital Education Project for Texas Art Museums
September 25-27, 2007
Adam's Mark Hotel
Dallas, Texas
Join us for the second annual Pachyderm Conference, September 25-27 in Dallas, Texas! This event brings together museum and campus leaders, trustees, and educators for a series of dialogs with Pachyderm authors, developers, members of the open source community, students, museum experts, and the Marcus Foundation Board to discuss the outreach and programmatic use of Pachyderm in museums and institutions of higher education.
The Inevitable Convergence of Art and Digital Media
Posted December 14th, 2006 by NMC
The American author Frederick Buechner wrote, "The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt."
Education and cultural heritage professionals, individually and collectively, are approaching a giant interchange-not just a crossroads-but an interchange. Will we let the new technologies shape us? Or will we use mankind's latest set of tools to build a legacy, as best we can for future generations? Is this simply a period of controlled chaos? Or are we spiraling out of control? Has the room full of hammers gotten so big, we've forgotten what it was that was so important for us to nail down?
