October 2011
1 post
All venues collected through NARB on Github →
Somehow our open sourced venue list never ended up on this blog before but here it is finally! This is zero CC so use as you like.
June 2010
1 post
Survey says...
These last few months we were joined by Margita van Vugt who, as a student of the local Reinwardt Academy, spent some time researching new developments in the dutch cultural scene. What follows is a quick summary of her research and results. We’ll be sure to update this post as soon as the actual research paper is released, so watch this space if you interested in the full results.
Some...
May 2010
1 post
December 2009
2 posts
Hottest Exhibitions of 2009
After reading the closing comments here i figured it would be fun to dive into the NARB database and come up with a totally unscientific but kinda interesting measure for calculating the best exhibitions of 2009.
I kept the rules deliberately simple; an exhibition has to have taken place (at least partly) in 2009 obviously. And i decided to look at active attention and judgement (trips, likes,...
September 2009
1 post
Boijmans + NARB
(image of comment + rating activity stream projection)
We just completed some work with Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. NARB is powering the Design Prize exhibition which opened September 15, 2009. The Design Prize runs across the Design Prize website and NARB, so two communities can participate. You can rate the pieces either from within the venue at the exhibition itself using a console next...
July 2009
1 post
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“For example, today’s iPhones are capable of taking a picture of art in a...”
– Apple findings detail ID app. Seems like Apple is trying to patent tech that NARB, Roomware and many others have already built or described all over the place. I wish them luck but i do hope the US patent office is not as broken as it sometimes seems to be and they actually get awarded the patent.
May 2009
4 posts
NARB loves Wiki loves art
Monday june 1st Wiki loves art/NL kicks off at the Jewish Historic Museum in Amsterdam. Wiki loves art aims to add more photographs of art to Wikipedia making them publicly available. The NARB team will be there and so can you! :)
The kick off features photo workshops and a highlights tour of the museum and participation is free. Just send an e-mail to evenementen@jhm.nl and mention Wiki loves...
Congrats Gijs van Lith, winner of Art Amsterdam
R/T @Robert Gaal: Art Amsterdam is on and this year’s Thieme Art Award winner has been decided. Go take a look for yourself. http://bit.ly/RyKEN
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Is it hot in here?
If you go to the narb.me website right now you might notice some changes that we have been releasing over the weekend. The biggest of these changes is a rather radical departure from ratings between 1 and 10 to a comparison system based on temperature. Using simple math, puppies and potato skins we are now able to order a list of venues, exhibitions, art pieces and even people based on their NARB...
April 2009
4 posts
NARB visits ArtBrussels
Tijs and I will be at ArtBrussels on Monday 27th April. Mail us or send us a twitter message @narbme if you want to meet up for drink if you are in the area.
What's on your dashboard?
Since about a week we have been giving some of the galleries with a presence on NARB access to their own gallery dashboard from which they can manage all their venue, exhibition and art piece details themselves. This initial version of the dashboard is a first step towards a full suite of gallery and museum services we’ll be rolling out during the rest of the year.
If you manage a gallery...
“Using NARB creates free publicity. I can see what’s new in the art scene...”
– Actionfields gallery in Brussels
March 2009
7 posts
“Internet is nu zo levendig en zwanger als een heelal gevuld met kikkerdril.”
– De Menigte Die van Kunst Houdt - Tubelight
“…‘art-speak’ may have an air of authority but often masks vagueness,...”
– via Pete over at New Curator
Come and have a drink with Tijs and James plus friends at this location at 11pm in Rotterdam for Museum Night if you are in the area.
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Open to the public
After our shiny new server got delivered earlier this week i spent today fine tuning the settings so we can fully enjoy the awesome power this gives our website. With that done there was basically nothing keeping us from opening up the site to the public anymore.
So starting NOW you no longer need an invite to be able to create your own NARB account! If you register today you can start posting...
February 2009
12 posts
New social network for major museums in UK →
WatchNice job by Allegra Burnette and MoMA for their new generation of audio tours over iTunes and iPhone
hmpff...
stevenf:
The problem with rating systems in general is that only people who feel very strongly about something will take the time to rate it. For a five star scale, that suggests mostly one and five star ratings.
This is why most iPhone apps will have a three star rating. A lower quality app will tend to have about 2.5 stars, and a higher quality app will tend to have about 3.5.
As soon as...
“It’s not where you take things from - It’s where you take them to -...”
January 2009
5 posts
Another fan of Tim →
seems somebody liked our business cards →
Digital technologies and the museum experience
is an anthology which “explores the potential of mobile technologies (cell phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, PDAs) for visitor interaction and learning in museums”, is edited by Loïc Tallon and Kevin Walker. I randomly bumped into Loïc in the back of a taxi in Asia 2 weeks ago!
He is currently traveling round the globe on a research mission assessing museum experiences in his work...
More public pages
I just opened up the exhibitions and venues pages to the public as well. Together with locations that were already available without a login this should already give some idea of where we are heading with our social art guide.
In the spirit of “release early, release often” we are putting stuff online as were bulding it. This allows us to test the app with real data while giving...
Wireless at Rotterdam museum night
As you might have heard we will be launching a first public version of narb.me, and our iPhone app, at the Rotterdam museum night. Today me and Willem Besselink are heading over to a group called Rotterdam wireless to see if they will be able to provide free wireless access during the festival. If they can narb users will have a much easier time posting reviews and ratings from their iPhones and...
December 2008
1 post
October 2008
5 posts
iPhone development kickoff today!
Travis and I sketched out some wireframes and talked iPhone. Somehow with iPhone applications it feels like how UK soccer used to be played. Kick the ball and run after it. The UI is just so much more amazing than anything else out there that it’s the prototype for the rest of the mobile phone world as other providers catch up.
Collectie Wijzer →
Musea moeten sociaal worden op internet →