Celebrating Public Domain month 2023 with a closer look at some of the new artists in SMK’s collection who have entered the public domain — Another new year, another Public Domain month! Always a good occasion to celebrate when more great art enters the public domain where everyone can enjoy and build on our common cultural heritage. But it’s also a moment to meditate on some of the representational gaps in our collection.

Openness as strategy at SMK, the national gallery of Denmark “Strategy is language that does work”. Early on in the process of developing the first strategic foundations of digital museum practice at SMK, Michael Edson (then Director of Web and New Media at The Smithsonian Institution) used this clear statement…

Sammensmeltning af den virtuelle og fysiske verden Gæsteindlæg af Diana Velasco, kunstner, medstifter af Radar Contemporary og direktør for Museum of Nordic Digital Art — MoNDA, i anledning af Kvinder, Kunst & Algoritmer 8. marts på SMK, arrangeret i samarbejde med Ingeniørforeningen IDA og Algoritmer, Data & Demokrati-projektet. Covid-19 lockdown & tech-boost Det går…

An interview with film maker Lucio Arese on his prize winning short film Les Dieux Changeants based on 3D scans from SMK Open Merete Sanderhoff, SMK: We were happily surprised when back in April, you contacted us to let us know that you had made a short film using 3D…

Den 1. juni 2021 markerede Thorvaldsens Museum afslutningen på de to store digitaliseringsprojekter Arkivet og Kataloget. I den anledning var jeg indbudt til at holde en tale, som kan læses her. Da jeg begyndte at interessere mig for digital museumsudvikling, var Thorvaldsens Museum en ledestjerne herhjemme. Tilbygningen var et banebrydende og modigt eksperiment, som åbnede mange museumsfolks øjne for hvad man formidlingsmæssigt kunne med nye medier. Parallelt har arbejdet med Arkivet og Kataloget udgjort det lange seje forskningstræk.

This year, we welcome the turn of the year with excitement for several reasons — the obvious one being that we left 2020 behind — but also because a host of new, outstanding artists are now part of the Public Domain. Artists who passed away in 1950 have now officially…

We have invited artist and creative coder Andreas Refsgaard to develop a tool to make it fun and personal to explore the SMK collection. Here, Andreas tells the story of how he’s making it possible for you to jump into your favourite artwork. A few months ago, SMK approached me…

More artworks to enjoy from home This autumn, a crossdepartmental team has been working to bring more art to you digitally. Thanks to a generous donation from the Aage & Johanne Louis- Hansen Foundation, a large selection of masterpieces and new acquisitions to the collection have been digitised and launched on SMK Open. In these strange…

Five artists represented in the collection of SMK — Statens Museum for Kunst have entered the Public Domain as of 1 January 2020. That calls for a celebration — but it also opens our eyes to some noticeable gaps in our digitised collection. For some people, January is a dark…