The Living Room Candidate

The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008 is one of the web projects at the Museum of the Moving Image, which "advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media"[1].  The exhibitions page doesn't really lead to much online content but searching the collection can lead to some interesting finds, once you click on the "Collection Catalog" tab. You don't really have to know what you're looking for to find things. For instance, selecting 'boxes' in the 'artifact class' dropdown and 'any' in the 'collection category' and then clicking search finds four objects, or three, depending on how you look at it. All images can be magnified and are quite clear as long as you wait a few seconds.

Clicking around the site can lead to some exciting finds. I clicked on Moving Image Source on the web projects page, and found, among many others, an interview with Melvin Van Peebles which I listened to as I typed this blog. Then under Sloan Science and Film I found dozens of short films. And there are lots of other things, but I'll leave those for you to find on your own.

1. See "General Information" at http://www.movingimage.us/site/about/index.html where there is also a short video describing the Museum.

Performance art by radio

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/evidence_movement/index.html

Look at and comment on some of the radio broadcasts. They can all be listened to, not all downloaded and some can are podcasts. Note the artists involved.

Collections at the Rhode Island School of Design

The Rhode Island School of Design doesn't provide any extra content for it's exhibitions, past or present. What it does show on its web page is some excellent images of some of the 84,000 or so items in its collections. There isn't an introductory page for the collections, so you usually start off with the "Costume/Textiles" section and explore from there. The Contemporary Art display is the only one with a good number of objects but what is marvellous about those that are shown is that they can be magnified and the full images have very good detail.

I would hope that in the future RISD develops a more comprehensive website that shows more of its excellent collections.

Ed Bing Lee

Video at Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Check some of their links.

Link on Lee's page is incorrect - check again,

Hiraki Sawa

Podcasts at Hirshhorn - see podcasts page for other audio and video
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/podcasts/podcast_58.mp3
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/podcasts/podcast_59.mp3
His website http://www.softkipper.com/
Better access http://www.softkipper.com/work/index.htm
Do Google search for more uptodate info