My slides are here; the podcast of the talk is here. If you have comments or ideas to build on this work, there are pages on the Museum Mobile wiki dedicated to the topic:

• On mobile experience design
• My manifesto for a new mobile information architecture
• And some ideas for a new information architecture

Here is a podcast of the first one I’ve been able to edit together so far (or find it on iTunes); the slides are here. It was delivered at the conference: Event Culture The Museum and Its Staging of Contemporary Art at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art on November 7, 2009. The conference was brilliantly conceived and put together by Rune Gade and Jesper Rasmussen from the Copenhagen Doctoral School of Cultural Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.

The conference also gave me the opportunity to visit Copenhagen and about 11 of its museums and cultural sites for the first time! My favorite was the Glyptoteket – perhaps the best sculpture experience of my life, with a gorgeous ‘Winter Garden’ courtyard. Here are some pictures; check out the crazy turn of the 20th century French sculpture, and the Louise Bourgeois that apparently moves around the museum! I love her in the Rodin gallery, as if to vindicate Camille Claudel…

The conference really made me want to go back and spend some time working with and learning from the museum professionals and academics I met there. In particular, I’m keen to visit the ARoS after hearing a presentation about it from Jesper. They are doing some really innovative things in contemporary art curation: see Sense City, where “the spectator takes center stage,” and Art City, where you walk down a city street, seeing the art representing elements you might find in a city, displayed as if in their natural places along the streets and square. No labels! I’ll add a link when Jesper publishes his paper about these installations.

Until then, thanks to all who organized and attended the conference!

This was my first year attending WebWise and I was mightily impressed by the quality of the debates and the organization. It was extremely useful to me to broaden the view a bit and see how libraries and archives share and differ in their struggles and approaches to Web2.0. I twittered most of the salient points I gleaned from the presentations; you can see these and the contributions of others at #WebWise.

My only trouble with the conference was that the organizers, understandably, wanted the slides for my presentation a good 10 days before my talk so they could put them in the conference’s printed binder. But being uncharacteristically punctual in delivering my slides meant that by the time the conference rolled around, I was thoroughly bored with what I had to say. With Len Steinbach‘s encouragement I rewrote the presentation and tried to fashion it into a sort of game at the last minute, finishing 15 minutes before our panel started, and of course having the obligatory technical problems getting it onto the presentation computer to boot! Ah, the sweet smell of terror and adrenalin! Thankfully, Titus Bicknell provided IT support by phone and saved the day, yet again.

Here are my slides from the talk; feel free to download and use them as you wish. I ask only that if you have a chance, please try the American Art Museum‘s new game, Artful Abe, and let me know if you think it works. It’s our first attempt at using Google Maps and Flickr to create a game that can be played both on-site and purely online for those who can’t make it to the museum. We have one intermittent technical problem we could use some tips on resolving: occasionally the text in the Google Maps pop-ups spills beyond the border of the pop-up box. Other than that, I think the content, as always, is our biggest challenge: is it too easy, too hard, engaging? If you have suggestions on how we can improve, I’d be extremely grateful for them.