http://www.corporeality.net/museion Medical Museion @ University of Copenhagen Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:07:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like most museums, Medical Museion is a member of the International  Council of Museums (ICOM). The major benefit of membership is that you don't have to pay entrance to other member museums (and sometimes are allowed to bypass the queue by getting in through the VIP entrance, which gives a kick of feeling important). But except for ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2010/03/14/is-the-role-of-museums-to-promote-social-harmony/ We have a old and pretty dysfunctional website. Shall we rebuild it (using the university's system) or not? All other great museums have fancy, big websites with lots of rich media functionalities. They cost hundreds of hours and enormous sums of money to build and maintain. Are they worth it? Or are the days of ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2010/03/12/do-museums-need-big-web-sites-to-be-visible/ The recently published Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines, edited by Ericka Johnson och Boel Berner (Ashgate), might be interesting reading for medical museum curators. Says the blurb: The advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care within modern medicine, whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, may also ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2010/03/11/how-are-doctors-nurses-and-medical-scientists-practices-changed-when-artefacts-are-involved/ Just learned from Beth how to embed a YouTube video  into a powerpoint slide --- see this screencast. You need Powerpoint 2007 (and of curse a live Internet connection). Beth wants to put this trick into the Trainer's Bag of Social Media Tricks. http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2010/03/10/embed-a-youtube-video-in-your-powerpoint/ We have just started a search for 1-2 positions at the level of Associate Professor (alternatively Assistant Professor). As readers of this blog probably knows, Medical Museion is an integrated research and museum unit for promoting medical science communication based on the material and visual medical heritage. The research profile is centered around ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2010/03/09/1-2-associate-assistant-professors-in-medical-science-communication-andor-medical-science-heritage-production/ The Hybrid Art Science Networking Association, which is led by Leeds-based artist Paul Digby and Sheffield-based scientist and artist Lizz Tuckerman, enables artists and scientists of all disciplines to meet, and encourages cross-disciplinary interaction. It is supported by Arts Council England, Yorkshire. The Hybrid Art and Science Exhibition was held in ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2010/03/06/bacteria-drawing-at-the-hybrid-art-science-exhibition-in-sheffield/ In the early morning --- just before Johanna began to make the usual noices to indicate she wanted to be transferred to our bed for a last cosy hour of sleep --- my eyes fell on this sentence in a piece by Douglas Haddow in Adbusters ('The coming barbarism'): Rather than Bourriaud’s altermodernism, ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2010/03/05/the-alterrealist-museum/ All of us who have been following Nina's blog about museum 2.0 are happy to hear that her book project about visitor participation in museums, science centers, libraries and art galleries has come to a temporary end. She describes The Participatory Museum as "a practical guide to visitor participation ... the nuts ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2010/03/04/the-participatory-museum/ When I opened my mailbox this morning I found the following enticing message: Hello Thomas I’m writing this to let you know about a brand new featured post we just made over here at Medicareer entitled, “Top 50 Biotech Blogs.” I thought that you and your readers over at Biomedicine on Display ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2010/03/03/peculiar-malicious-anonymous-vanity-blogranking-service/ A recent call for submissions to the journal Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies makes me think (again and again and again) about the unfathomable gulf between on the one hand biomedical practice and on the other hand literary and cultural studies about biomedicine. Concentric asks for papers for an issue on ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2010/03/02/bios-lingo/