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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

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From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

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Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content. In the Odditoreum such irregular actions are not only invited but modeled. They model the requested visitor contributions.

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

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To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world. But overall, this is a model project that starts with an outcome, not an activity.

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Guest Post by Lina Srivastava: Building Cultural Engagement for Change Through Media and Narrative

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the two frameworks I've been co-creating, Transmedia Activism Modeling Global Change, we've based the frameworks on the core value of putting the social change issue first. Tags: movement building. It's important to build your platforms to both create and demonstrate impact.

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Another Exclusivity Paradox: Secret Gardens, Hidden Museums

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And then there's the Berkeley Ace hardware store, which has a basement lair devoted to model trains. Secrecy operates on a scarcity model; if everyone knows about it, it's not as appealing. Tags: design Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion. What's going on here? Exclusive places reinforce our identities powerfully.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

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A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Tags: guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Observations from The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop, Month 3

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Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums. Holding virtual meetings and prototyping things in Second Life can be a useful alternative to endless conference calls and drawings that mean different things to different people. But that's just a start.

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