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/ ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).