Art Jewels has a winner!
Summer came and went and in the meantime, the team behind Art Jewels [link no longer active] have been hard at work going through the +250 entries to the jewelry design contest and electing a winner.
The winning design in Art Jewels: ‘Instant SMK art info? There’s an app for that
At SMK, we’d really really like to give guests easy, flexible access to information on the collection. We’d also really really like to avoid all the distractions of QR codes and dubious Bluetooth connections.
On the threshold of something great
As promised, we want to share some more of our favourite details from the artworks that are the sources of inspiration in Art Jewels [link no longer active] — the jewelry design contest of SMK + Shapeways.
L.A. Ring, At the French Windows. The Artist’s Wife, 1897, Statens Museum for Kunst. Public domain
How to turn sunlight into solid gold
The weekend is approaching, which means lots of free time to get creative in our SMK + Shapeways jewelry design contest [link no longer active]. What better time to share some more of our favourite details from the selected SMK artworks that provide the raw materials and inspiration for the contest?
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor, 1901, Statens Museum for Kunst. Public domain
Make your own Art Jewels with open art
Imagine if you could wear your favourite artworks as jewels? If you could boast a Hammershøi necklace, a pair of Cranach earrings, or a Gijsbrechts bracelet? This is the concept of the design contest Art Jewels [link no longer active] created in a collaboration between SMK Open and the Dutch-American 3D print community Shapeways.com.
A selection of the designs that we’re seeing in the Art Jewels design contest created by SMK Open and Shapeways [link no longer active]
Digital is not always the answer because nothing is always the answer
Guest at an SMK Fridays event playing with 3D scans of hard-to-access SMK sculptures
Open access can never be bad news
Several of us responded with enthusiasm to the recent news that The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened up their digitised collections to free and unrestricted re-use. Closely after this announcement followed the news that The Met’s director Thomas Campbell resigned under pressure due to a growing financial deficit. This gave rise to a response that ties the two together, critically questioning whether The Met’s decision to stop charging for their digitised images is viable in a time of financial constraint.
Johan Thomas Lundbye, Zealand Landscape. Open Country in North Zealand, 1842, inv. no. KMS402. SMK, public domain
Ghost in the scan — 3D scans of casts in the SMK’s collections
“What kind of ghost continues to haunt the scanned 3D model of the sculpture?” — paraphrased from a conversation with the artist-hacktivists Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles, who scanned and released a 3D model of the Nefertiti bust at Neues Museum in Berlin in December 2015
View of the digital inside of the Discobulus made with the digital cast. Screenshot by artist Honza Hoeck, courtesy of the artist.
The only way is open
Lewis Hine, Icarus, Empire State Building, 1930, acc. no.1987.1100.486. The Met, public domain.
Pixels, atoms, and curious things: A toast to the Virtuous Museum Circle
The evidence is as clear as it is surprising (to some): Easy online access to museum collections makes them all the more interesting to see offline. What have we done to deserve this miracle?
Pieter Aertsen, The Fat Kitchen. An Allegory, 1565–1575. SMK — Statens Museum for Kunst.