I have had an interest in Museum-L prior to becoming
  a participant in an exhibit, where my contribution will
  be the attempt to create a mini-exhibit within the larger
  exhibit, inspired by my introductory understanding of
  the 'wunderkammer' and curiosity cabinets, and the
  precursors to museum categories and collections. The
  idea, if scaled up, would ideally be like Sir John Soane's
  house, though filled with electromagnetic art and artifacts.

  In any case, there will be hands-on displays, several
  approaches to content including documents, postage
  stamps, a bulletin board strip with cartoons and news
  clippings attached, curio cabinet, television, vacuum
  tube radio, radio scanner, EMF meter, rare earth magnet
  and electroscope for display, a Y2K bug (stuffed animal),
  in addition to circuit boards, maps, lights, animation, etc.
  Please visit if you are interested in an experiment of how
  a  collection of electromagnetic art and artifacts may be
  approached prior to any particular cultural categorization.

STATE OF THE ART An exhibition curated by Steve Dietz.
http://www.carleton.edu/campus/gallery/schedule.html

November 5 (opening) through November 19th, 2003.
Carleton College Art Gallery. Northfield, Minnesota.

Thanks and hope those near Minnesota who are able to visit
will offer their critiques in how such an approach could be
improved or adapted. If the mini-exhibit whose primary focus
is educational and based on the electromagnetic assemblage
online work at http://www.electronetwork.org/assemblage/
is thoroughly documented and photographed, hopefully this
approach to electromagnetic content can be shared online.

Please send to anyone who is interested in integrating works
of computers and electronic media, with traditional collections.
Thanks. Hope some on the list will make it to the experiment.

Brian

  brian thomas carroll: research-design-development
  architecture, education, electromagnetism
  http://www.electronetwork.org/bc/

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