The Grand Tour: Rubens at large in the streets of London: This summer, the Grand Tour turns the streets of London into a giant art gallery by hanging life-size replicas of paintings from the National Gallery all across the centre of town. The accompanying website provides a printable map (including a selection of ‘mini-tours’) along with audio downloads and further information about the paintings. They even opened a "photo...

My library is selling its long tail: Last Saturday, like almost every week-end, my son Kai and I went to the local library. As always we tried to score five new children's books, a goal we somehow always manage to attain :-) And when there's time and attention span left, I get to choose some books and cd's as well. That fortunately being the case, I noticed that the music department was selling part of its collection. Not junk, but truly magnificent stuff. Apparently, the...

Presentation on folksonomic 'attitude' in the VACF-project: Yesterday I gave a presentation (in Dutch) on the study-afternoon , dedicated to 'Participation in e-culture'. Subject of this talk was the use of folksonomies and the folksonomic 'attitude' in the Virtual Arts Centre of the Future project, funded by IBBT . You can download the presentation here . The event was organised by the departement of Culture, Youth, ...

Humble Voice, a community of artists: Humble Voice is a new community for artists (and art lovers). Not unlike Myspace, it offers the possibility for artists to create profiles. Photography, art, films, writing and music may then be added to this profile and shared with the community. Additional features include calendars to track local readings, art shows, band performances and community events. Each artist community homepage contains featured artists, each day's top listened to/viewed/read...