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Week 12

Finally I have finished the proposal, thanks Kerry Ann!

Have a great break and see you next year!!!

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Week 11 Keep Research...

As for the history behind the CD

The first “CD”

https://themusiccompany.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/the-first-cd/

It was really hard to find an official document about the history line of CD

But I did found...

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-cds

It’ quite clear!

History of the CD: 40 years of the compact disc

I want to look at any other more exhibitions which are about vinyl records and CD. Apparently, it’s still quite difficult to find the CD exhibition and I only found one. 

1. HK CWB Times Square RTHK Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award Exhibition in August 2017

This exhibition is all about nostalgic album cover from last century.

It do looks really awesome that when they all have pinned on the wall. A nice display method!

As for the album cover design, I only can find one research was related to my theme, which was “Innovation In CD Packaging Design” by Charlotte Rivers

“I’ve never bought a record without being influenced by the cover”

by Peter Maybury, Peter Maybury Studio

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Week 10 Presentation

So, this week is the presentation week!

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Week 8

Name of the exhibition: The Revolution of CD

The exhibition will divide into two parts:

1. A story about “The history of the CD's rise and fall”

2. To display and illustrate the concept of various album cover design.

p.s. My cd collections

Brainstorm:

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Week 7

1. What are your aims and vision for the project?

To tell the story about “The history of the CD's rise and fall”

2. What venue or spaces might you want to work into?

A CD shop.

3. When is this exhibition planned for?

1st November - 7th November

4. What are the project's guiding values, principles, and kaupapa?

In this chaotic world we live in, we seek order in the form of a tremendously large CD collection.

Most often attributed to inventor James Russell, the CD evolved from multiple optical mediums, and was eventually finalized in 1980 when Sony and Philips created the famed “Red Book” standard, which was a series of documents that outlined a 120mm diameter disc bearing music at a resolution of 16 bit/44.1kHz. The sample rate is based on the Nyquist theorem (shout out to our fellow nerds), which, in this case, outlines the minimum rate needed to replicate all frequencies humans can theoretically hear. The resolution is still regarded by many as the optimal digital standard. The CD, however, wouldn’t officially make its way to the greater public until 1983.

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Week 5

1. Using the past exhibitions from Te Papa ( on the Te Papa website and link in the talk uploaded below )  identify an exhibition that has displayed a collection that reflects the identities of a specific social/ cultural group, medium, or social issue. Identify the key drivers behind the collection, curation and exhibition strategies.

An excellent visual artist Janet Lilo created an installation called “Share The Love”, she developed this installation for more than a decade to study how people use social networking sites. The giant orange neon lights exude a feeling of warmth, and whenever visitors enter this special space, they can feel the existence of love from the neon. Benches allow people to sit down and talk freely. Moreover, the white message board allows visitors to leave what they feel in their hearts at this moment. Her inspiration was from thousands of images and videos collected by Bebo, Myspace, Facebook and YouTube and the neon lights are inspired by Bebo invitations to send the virtual hearts to friends.

2. Select an example of a design focused museum ( for example, The Dowse, The Design Museum in London, Cooper Hewitt/ Smithsonian New York, The Danish Design Museum in Copenhagen, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London -- or any other of your choice. 

Danish Museum of Art & Design

The Danish Museum of Art & Design (formerly, Danish Museum of Decorative Art; Danish: Kunstindustrimuseet) is a museum in Copenhagen for Danish and international design and crafts. It features works of famous Danish designers like Arne Jacobsen, Jacob Jensen and Kaare Klint, who was one of the two architects who remodeled the former Frederiks Hospital (built 1752–57) into a museum in the 1920s. The exhibition also features a variety of Chinese and German porcelain.

The museum houses the biggest library for design in Scandinavia. It also hosts a fully annotated and illustrated database of all furniture made in Denmark from 1900 to 2000, originally compiled by Reese and Marilyn Palley and later donated to and further developed by the museum.

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Week 4 - Collections

Notes from class:

Malcolm Doidge

Mana Moana Ocean

Kerry Ann Lee 

Ordinary things will be signs for us

1. Memory is the tailor of time.

2. People create and leave traces in every space where they have lived. These traces can represent life trajectories, time fragments and memories.

3. I think move also means that people are making progress and growing up. We gain different things by experiencing a different life. We feel that life and also enjoy the passage of time.

Song Dong - Waste Not 2005

Consider how access to some virtual spaces might advantage or disadvantage our encounters looking at collections. For example, Marina Abramovic tried to make people care about global heating? Was she successful? Can a good ‘digital’ copy be a substitute for ‘the real’ and, under what circumstances?

To be honest, due to nowadays’s situation (I mean the covid thing), it obviously have the differences between the traditional exhibition, but I think a good virtual space is a good way for people to access different exhibition spaces. It helps people to re-think about the problems that the space want to reflect that. People usually remember when they see amazing things, which often makes them realise the problems and want to change or solve it. I think is a good one.

Choose 3 examples of private or public collections of art and/or design objects. Describe their systems and modes of display.

1. For the Record: Artists on Vinyl. Cranbrook Art Museum Spotlights Vinyl Artwork by Dalí, Basquiat & More.The Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit, Michigan is currently hosting a unique exhibition entitled “For the Record: Artists on Vinyl” that spotlights over 50 album cover designs by iconic artists. Pulled from the extensive collection of collector and board member Frank M. Edwards, the presentation includes works by Salvador Dalí, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Yoko Ono, Frank Stella, and many more. Several covers are paired with the original artwork alongside audio recordings by the artists.

https://hypebeast.com/2019/7/cranbrook-art-museum-for-the-record-artists-on-vinyl-exhibition

2. India Meets its Match. Over the last four years, the 55-year-old has collected over 25,000 matchboxes, matchbox labels, catalogues and published articles, some of which comprise the ongoing exhibition titled “Matchbox labels and The Stories They Tell” at the India International Centre in Delhi.

https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/delhi-exhibition-india-meets-its-matchbox-2829497/

3. 

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Week 3 - The Museum of Innocence

Imagine you could bring any 5 (or 6 or 7) things together, to tell a story, to make a point, to illuminate a concept, to reveal an insight, to offer a portrait…

According to Wikipedia:

“Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982. The format was originally developed to store and play only digital audio recordings (CD-DA) but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM). Several other formats were further derived from these, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, PictureCD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i), and Enhanced Music CD. The first commercially available audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released October 1982 in Japan.”

History of the CD: 40 years of the compact disc

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47441962

Things:

1. CD

2. Posters

3. CD Players

4. Audio Speakers

5. Album Covers

My concept: I want to illustrate a story about the history of CD, about how they comes and how they look like right now.

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Week 2 - The Exhibitionary Complex

3 entries/key points of Tony Bennett’s theory

1. In essence, a museum is a place to display objects, but this does not fully explain the purpose of the museum. This idea of the concept of museum should not be regarded as the whole truth, but as a theory-exhibition complex.

2. Bennett argues, museums and exhibitions became the new form of displaying national greatness. 

3. During late 19th century and early 20th century, nationalism and colonialism played an important role in Western European politics, and the display of power and modernity was a great and vital entity on the world stage.

4. Museums are a symbol of power, greatness, wealth, and progress.

Consider one of the exhibition spaces you visited in week one. Can you determine or suggest ways you think visitors are being disciplined as viewers in their museum experience? This could address the way exhibits are presented, specific architectures, and/or any other aspects about the visitor's musuem going experience. 

The first impression of the Wellington museum is okay. When we entered the main entrance, the staff from the front desk were passionated to help us and show us the map of the space. Then it’s really good that there have very clear footprints in the ground, so we can follow them to start our journey.

But after when we start the journey, I found that actually there have so many different themes of the exhibition on the first floor. To be honest, I think this kind of displaying might make the visitors a bit confused they don’t know how to start looking at the exhibition. Perhaps they can make the boundary of each different themes exhibition more clearer that which is more convenience for the visitors.

Musée du louvre

As one of the museums with the most visitors in the world, The Louvre, which hosts more than 10 million visitors annually. The initiative demonstrates the Louvre’s ongoing commitment to enhance the way it welcomes visitors and promotes its collections through a complete review of the museum experience for the general public, academics, scientists, researchers and employees of the museum. Moreover, Paris is the one of the most popular travel city in the world in the past decade. When tourists go to France for travelling, they definitely will go to The Louvre to visit. Bennett writes about “museums and exhibitions became the new form of displaying national greatness.”

Targer audience: Tourist and the people who are interested of the history of Europe.

For the past 18 years, the wold’s most visited museum has been getting a hand with marketing projects from Accenture Interactive and the Accenture Foundation. According to the Claude chaffiotte, the director for Accenture Interactive in France and Benelux, he said “The Louvre aims to create meaningful experiences for visitors before, during, and after their visit, and to meet this goal, Accenture Interactive is helping the museum to better understand its visitors, including the scientists and researcher community, in order to offer a more qualitive experience and create relevant digital services.”

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Week 1

1. Research of three different museums that are of interest to me.

1. Te Papa - New Zealand National Museum - Wellington, NZ

2. Deutsches Historisches Museum - Berlin, Germany

3. Musée Du Louvre - Paris, France

2. Visit at least 1 physical museum or art gallery and on a piece of paper sketch two maps.

Visit Date: 24 July

Museum Name: Wellington Museum

Address: 3 Jervios Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011

First time routine sketch

So, we followed the sign from the floor in the first floor.

As we followed the signed, we found the first display.

After that

When we finished the first floor tour, there is...