Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? and a few more thoughts.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." LA MOCA has indeed been front page news, especially in the art world. It's amazing to see papers like the LA Times cover the debate about the future of an art museum deeply.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The quest for relevance begins with knowing your audience. Ultimately, any approach to answering these questions is limited at some point by the size of the audience involved. When you are dealing with an audience of hundreds or thousands of people, you have to make assumptions. But what if you only had an audience of one?

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art. The theme of MCON 2015 is “The Power of Influence: Art, Media, Business and Place” and an incredible lineup of speakers from the corporate, nonprofit and public sectors will share stories of the successes and failures they’ve encountered while changing the world. The Art Assignment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. What were the results? ­-If

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

Yesterday, the local paper in Santa Cruz published a great article about my new book, The Art of Relevance. I've learned so much from my dad about making art, putting on a great show, inviting audience participation , and navigating celebrity. Their audience aged with them, and they slid from hot to nostalgic.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Games with incentives or prizes can allow your audience members to display their talents and vote for those who perform the game the best! The audience was then asked to vote on their favorite one, with the winner announced the following day on Twitter. . This will engage the audience but also provide the speaker (and you, as host!)

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

” How is this influx of new people influencing Austin’s Arts & Cultural community? The event is definitely a hit, and Thinkery has enjoyed increased revenue, an expanded audience, and an increase in their supporter base. That way we get audience buy-in before we’ve even started planning an event.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Negotiated agency" strikes me as a really useful framework in which to talk about visitor/audience participation in the arts. Negotiation" implies a respectful relationship between institution (or artist) and user. Sometimes the negotiation can be exploited for artistic means.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

Imagine asking audience members to participate in your work. There are five female dancers, but there are also three audience members pulled up during the show to perform and to become metaphoric kisaeng. The audience participation was essential, not incidental, to the piece. Women from the audience were dressed up in costumes.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

People from across the country will gather at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. Media is one of the content industries we’re specifically highlighting this year, and these individuals truly represent “the power of influence.”

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

An exhibiting artist approached me recently at an evening event at the museum. Imagine if a theater or jazz club was only open during the day, and what conclusions one might draw about audience type and preferences based on that decision. Who would be "core" audiences if our institutions were open from 3-9pm instead of closing at 5?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2014

Over the past eight years, Michael has been specifically focused on the Arts and Cultural marketplace and is an active participant in delivering speaking engagements and contributing to trade publication articles. . How do you internally define arts and culture? It’s what we all are expected to do, isn’t it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Here are the three most basic: 1) Who's the audience ? The fact is that the more people are exposed to stories around a cause and the ideas behind theories of change, the more likely that change will be effected or you'll influence the people who can help create impact. 3) What are you trying to change?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Ze Frank recently posed this question to several designers, filmmakers, and artists here , asking: When you make things with an audience in mind, do you have internal representations of that audience to help guide you in the process? Alas, for designers then, "the imagined audience" is both blessing and curse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. I said yes. James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area. Social Learning: Face-to-Face.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

Find your influencers and get them more involved in the process. Younger audiences have been shown to appreciate short videos, they have to be under 2-3 minutes but it can be a good way to get information out there to broader audiences. I also think you should steal like an artist.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What happens when you combine reality TV tactics with a traditional art collection? This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

Last week, the international press lit up with a story from Paris : the city is removing the "love locks" from the Pont des Arts bridge. The "love locks" are not a project with an institutional or artistic director. And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Like many people who've worked in science centers and interactive experience museums, I've always been perplexed by the fact that hands-on workshop audiences top out around age 14. In some cases, such as AS220 labs , they are part of larger community art spaces. 50-100 passionate geeks may not be a compelling audience when you have 1.2

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? But for museum and art wonks, it could be.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

While wealthy people have always had access to exclusive experiences (country clubs, art openings), more and more people of other socio-economic classes are clamoring for personalized and exclusive experiences as an alternative to the mass-market, one-size-fits-all model. Tags: design Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

virtual galaS & CELEBRATORY eventS Just like for your typical gala you’ll want to recruit inspiring guest speakers, performers, and influencers. The unique upside of digital is you can draw on a wider audience as well as call on talent from both your local network and across the globe! PHOTOGRAPHY: BFA.COM 2.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Just like for your typical gala you’ll want to recruit inspiring guest speakers, performers, and influencers. The unique upside of digital is you can draw on a wider audience as well as call on talent from both your local network and across the globe! TUTORING ART. virtual galaS & CELEBRATORY eventS.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

They’re assets, like Pokémon cards and also like actually awesome digital art, that can be owned and traded—only they’re all digital. They provide direct access to an international audience of investors—and potential new donors. This, I think, is what buying NFTs are like. Admittedly, NFTs could just be a flash in the pan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

"I think about how many times I didn't like the color of my skin, because I didn't see myself in any art. I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. Tags: guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

But this week, I got the opportunity to interview Jason Nelson, creator of digital art and avant garde game wonder game, game, game, and again game and how could I resist? Jason Nelson is a lecturer in cyberstudies/digital art/digital creative writing at Griffith University in Queensland, AU. just won an Italian art award.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One worked closely with the AARP Livability Index team to meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Overall, this work has helped empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience members in their mission, and amplify their impact.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One helped the AARP Livability Index meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Overall, this work has helped empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience members in their mission, and amplify their impact.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 29th annual awards included around 3,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the world’s largest awards of its kind. The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. To share its entire collection with art lovers, the museum created the “Send Me” bot allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted. Is it complex or simple?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. Several attendees in the session voiced impassioned concern that businesses not overstep their bounds in terms of influencing the artistic product, a concern I have not heard here in the US.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. Several attendees in the session voiced impassioned concern that businesses not overstep their bounds in terms of influencing the artistic product, a concern I have not heard here in the US.

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