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Museum pop-up at Heritage Fair during its early construction

10/26/2023

Come and join me this Saturday

28th of October at Leicester Adult Education I've been invited to put together a pop-up table of the developing museum project. The name of the museum is yet to be announced; I'll be looking for words and thoughts of those who interact with the items and I'd love to talk about it all. I've had a change of heart and thinking regarding its name - partly because as I construct the museum it is becoming more than a "collection" (of things I physically own) but the intention is for it to also be a platform for virtual exhibitions, intangible digital / online curation and other features as it grows.

There is an irony that a "virtual" museum's first activity will be in the physical world! I may have to drop the virtual notion altogether, that is genuinely a museum but just mainly lives virtually, especially if these become regular with the Documentary Media Centre. I hadn't considered these would exist.

Some of the items I've been sharing on @cap.cow coming with me are in the images here. There'll be books, VHS, comics, toys, Pogs, music + headphones, DVDs, treats. In my last blog I gave a preview on the AI illustrations I'd been creating for the museum found here.

South African Disco Pop Hits 1981 - 1987

VHS

Action Jackson

You have to hear it to believe it

It'll hug your ears

Behind the scenes from a photography test, as the museum ideas, design and production constructs.

Last weekend going over notes for the museum and relaying that to what I was deciding to take to this inaugural Saturday Heritage Fair. The central book is Cinema Posters of the 60s.

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AI illustrations for the new museum

10/13/2023

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I am developing a new museum and I've found a new tool.

It suddenly occurred to me. I wanted sketches and illustrations but who and how to make them? To play with an illustrative identity, of tone and ideas for my new museum. It will house curated virtual rooms of music, film, odd books, physical media, ephemera, advertising, comics, DVD menus. And then it came to me - that I might use one of the new spangly AI tools to breach the surreal barrier and see what I and it could make. I've been happy with my artificial intelligence collaboration so far and its promised to come for me last when it takes over the world.