Good, Form & Spectacle

Good, Form & Spectacle was a design firm doing culture work from 2014-2022. Founded by George Oates (@ukglo). She's now running @flickrfdn.

[Good, Form & Spectacle @goodformand]

Hello! Good news: @ukglo is now officially the founding Executive Director of the Flickr Foundation - @flickrfdn / https://t.co/wX9CeaDSvd. Bad news, or, semi-bad news? That means the little company that could, Good, Form & Spectacle, is going on ice.

[Good, Form & Spectacle @goodformand]

In any case, she has to jump on a call now, so can't continue with this particular frivolity. Love you, bye!

[Good, Form & Spectacle @goodformand]

Hello! Good news: @ukglo is now officially the founding Executive Director of the Flickr Foundation - @flickrfdn / https://t.co/wX9CeaDSvd. Bad news, or, semi-bad news? That means the little company that could, Good, Form & Spectacle, is going on ice.

[Good, Form & Spectacle @goodformand]

Perhaps she'll storm off in a huff because running a functioning and healthy cooperative commons is really hard and she may need to go sit on a mountain somewhere (to make spelunkers for museums).

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@CassieRobinson @KieronJBoyle What might the distribution look like in a better-balanced scenario?

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Exciting structural enhancements at @librarycongress featuring @kzwa & @tjowens 🥰💪📚 https://t.co/yUaa6aaCd9

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Gold!

[Rob Lancefield @roblancefield]

Great to see the soft launch of Oral Histories of Museum Computing, @paulfmarty and Kathy Jones! Fifty (50!) interviews (video + text transcriptions) with museum technology professionals on their often invisible work. #musetech #oralhistory #digitalhistory https://t.co/lyFHeS2bLK

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Provenance? Ownership is different to possession.

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At Day 1 of a short course: Unlocking Archives. Run by @Warburg_News and the Colnaghi Foundation. We’re about to start the Intro to Paleography session. 😍

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@wragge NICE.

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Today I am listening to @HitoSteyerl talk Bubble Vision (2018): https://t.co/SfZc9jzmWG "to automate means to eliminate"

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Really promising (presumably) work-in-progress on disinformation networks:

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Today I’m listening to Viggo Mortenson embody Albert Camus giving his 1946 speech, The Human Crisis. Mid-20th century history is repeating itself. https://t.co/QnCmquDygT

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I’m concurrently reading The Library: A Fragile History, too, which collides beautifully with this Western “highest culture” stuff beautifully, given how many libraries have been ruthlessly destroyed by The Church in various instantiations.

[Good, Form & Spectacle @goodformand]

Today I’m listening to The Value of Culture by Melvyn Bragg. 2012-2013. “Culture looks beyond machinery…” https://t.co/aVE0ff6RlO

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Has to be said - as with many/most of Bragg’s works, it’s a history of white or “Western” epistemologies of culture. Would love to have more episodes that looks for other societies’ similar reflections and developments.

[Good, Form & Spectacle @goodformand]

Continued indefatigable analysis from @CultureDoug and @AndeeWallace on open access uptake in cultural orgs. They’ve gathered 1,349 org examples!

[Doug McCarthy @CultureDoug]

New today ✨
https://t.co/bC6FJiGuuI

#OpenGLAM #OpenData #Museums #Copyright

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Today I'm watching a conversation between Tacita Dean, and art historian, Anne Rana about Dean's residency @GettyMuseum and her 'Monet Hates Me' piece. I constantly wish I was an artist in perpetual residence in the great collections of the world. https://t.co/xfppmIVJcV