Museums and the Web 2001 : Author

Archives & Museum Informatics
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Donald Goodes
Artistic Director Web Design
Independant
Independant
5971, rue Jeanne Mance
Montréal Québec
H2V 4K9 Canada
Email: goodes@nfb.ca
www.cam.org/~tourist/cv_goodes

I have been working on this idea of a specific design strategy for cultural Web projects since I began as a production co-ordinator in 1997. I had ten years of publishing art criticism under my belt and was looking to apply what I had learned in the visual art community to Web production. Working on virtual exhibitions for the Canadian Heritage Information Network with a bright team of non-mainstream designers at Ananas and Slant Productions, I was able to try some things out. We had some encouraging successes, particularly with Haida Spirits of the Sea, which won three international awards. I joined the NFB History of Canada Web site project in late 1999, I was given the opportunity to articulate and defend my ideas about Web design further. While at the NFB, Goodes directed a team of designers to create a prototype for a site entitled Explore Canadian History On Line (ECHO). He also initiated and brought to term a project called The Friday Site 1: Taking Stock, which is a Web project exposing the process of behind the making of the ECHO site. In April, I took the notion of Cultural Design to Museums and the Web 1999 (MOW1999) in Minneapolis.

Goodes also maintains a parallel career as a conceptual artist, and is, as of September 28, 2000 on leave from the NFB to create a video tape, as well as to prepare for the birth of his second child.

Donald will present Methodology for Cultural Web Design (CDM)