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~~~~~~ !!!!!! Register by September 15, 2004 to qualify for early-bird discounts at www.mcn.edu !!!!!! ~~~~~~ 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.