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How far has the museum world come in thinking in terms of the ‘augmented museum’ (or ‘museum++’ to paraphrase William Mitchell’s Me++: The Cyborged Self and the Networked City, 2003)? To what extent are curators thinking about digitally augmenting the reality of material artefacts into ‘augmented artefacts’?

I hate spam! And so do billions of e-mail and web users. Most of it is (rather harmless) advertising for viagra, porn movies or on-line poker games. Nevertheless it fills the mailbox and complicates making blog comments. That’s why almost everybody, including Bill Gates, hates it. But as Gustav Holmberg (in the Research Policy Institute […]

My spam mail filter (Spamfighter) is pretty efficient and I usually empty the spam folder without paying much attention to its content. But sometimes I take a closer look. Last night the filter had caught a mail that wanted to sell me laboratory mice with the following argument: Dear Colleague, Mice generated by Ozgene have […]

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(Added 18 July: Registration dead-line has been extended to 30 July) The ‘science wars’ of the 1990s is already history, but the relations between scientists and scholars of science studies and recent history of science and medicine continue to raise concern. The Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University is organising a conference ‘Getting Underneath […]

The Museums and Galleries History Group is organising a meeting, “Past and present: negotiating museum and gallery history” at Newcastle University at 7-8 September. The organisers tell us that: This is a chance to review the nature and roles of museum and gallery history, looking at: trends in and uses of museum and gallery historiography […]

The art of drawing of/in science and medicine is a summer theme in 2006. Here at the Medical Museion we are opening the exhibition “Sygdommens Ansigt” (The Face of Disease) on Thursday 24 August. 23 artists are participating with drawings of disease inspired by Sontag’s idea of disease as a metaphor. Each artist fills a […]

Phoenix Arts Association have been awarded a grant from The Wellcome Trust for artist Anna Dumitriu to work on a project about allergy entitled “Sensitive”: “The project is transdisciplinary and crosses the boundary between art and science enabling a greater understanding of allergy through scientific research and innovative art techniques (such as live art, video […]

The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, Hungary, has a new exhibition, “Resonance — Electromagnetic Bodies” curated by Nina Czegledy and Louise Provencher between 22 June and 27 August: “The exhibition explores the notions of being and desire in a society determined by our bodily immersion within an ubiquitous and omnipresent electromagnetic realm”. The […]

If you are interested in what goes on in the university museum world you may want to take a look at the University Museums and Collections (UMAC) website, edited by Cornelia Weber. It has, among other things, a very useful and up-to-date database of museums and collections around the world (including medical history museums) and […]

A series of lectures on historical and social science perspectives on genomics (“Genomics in Perspective”) were held at the NIH in May and June (lecture website here). For full videos, look here. For short abstracts to browse before watching, look here.

Together with Nete Schwennesen (Biocampus and Institute of Public Health), we (Hanne Jessen and Susanne Bauer, Medicinsk Museion) are organising a conference “Contested Categories”, 15-17 January 2007. This event is an open continuation of last year’s DK-UK network meeting , now the Postgraduate Life Sciences and Society Group, at BIOS (LSE), London and will take […]