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Connoisseurship in the Wireless Age: Max Anderson to Deliver the Blackaby
Keynote at the 2004 Museum Computer Network Conference

The spread of wireless technology, high definition television and standards
for delivering digital collections present many new opportunities for
museums.  In the 2004 Blackaby Keynote, Maxwell L. Anderson will offer his
observations about new directions in visual arts research and education
through networked computing, and speculate about the ultimate impact of
long-heralded technological convergence on the care and appreciation of
public art collections.

As Founding Chairman of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and
Executive Director of the Art Museum Network, Max Anderson has long sought
to promote the use of high technology in furthering the missions of cultural
institutions.   The author of dozens of articles and monographs on art and
museums, Anderson graduated from Dartmouth in 1977 and received a Ph.D. in
art history from Harvard in 1981. He was subsequently a curatorial assistant
and assistant curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for six years and
over the following 16 years, director of Emory University's Michael C.
Carlos Museum, Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario, and New York's Whitney
Museum of American Art. He has taught on the faculties of Princeton
University and the Università di Roma.  Anderson is serving as a Leadership
Fellow at the Yale School of Management for the 2003-04 academic year.

The 2004 Museum Computer Network Conference: Great Technology for
Collections, Confluence and Community will focus on how museums, libraries,
and archives put great technology into action to build communities around
our collective cultural heritage. Established in 2003, the Blackaby Keynote
honors the memory of Jim Blackaby, MCN Board member and leader of technology
initiatives at the Mystic Seaport Museum, Walker Art Center, United States
Holocaust Museum, and many other cultural institutions throughout the
country. 

The Museum Computer Network (MCN) is a nonprofit organization of
professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through
the use of computer technologies.  MCN serves individuals and institutions
wishing to improve their means of developing, managing, and conveying museum
information through the use of automation.  MCN supports cooperative efforts
that enable museums to be more effective at creating and disseminating
cultural and scientific knowledge as represented by their collections and
related documentation.  For more information please visit us online at
www.mcn.edu.