Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. And if this sounds too big, we have lots of more specific technology projects (point of sale, interactive staircase) you could get involved with. It could be a game show. Board committee meetings.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2007

Thanks to Paul Orselli for the link to this week's game, "game, game, game, and again game" by Jason Nelson , self-described new media artist and poet. The game is an odd collection of chicken-scratch drawings, Mario-esque navigation, surprising flurries of poetry and sound, and strange home videos.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

We should see ourselves like those board games, where all the players have to work together to win. Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums. In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists. That’s huge.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

They're playing video games. We assume that adults don't want to do crafts or play games--that they want the "serious" stuff. We've been trying to actively combat this at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in Santa Cruz. They're going to trivia night. And herein lies the self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. I spoke with Nikki this week to learn more about the Ministry and their fun and games. How did this project come about? How did the museum staff respond to this experience?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

As a forest-dwelling hippie, I know very little about reality TV, but it''s clear that the model of "do an ambitious, wacky project really fast" is now tied closely to a slew of shows about everything from cooking to art-making. Sure, they might have decided to present an art object in a confrontational and opinionated way.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Give me a game, like the Smithsonian's name that artifact gambit. Give me links to relevant content from elsewhere on the web like the Walker Art Center does. I am a museum of Native Cultures and Art!" It may sound like work to reply to others, but it can be easier than generating your own content. What would fit there?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Last week I announced the end of Game Friday. 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? game, game, has had about 5 million hits. game, game, and.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

One Million Giraffes is pretty much what it sounds like--a project to collect artistic renderings of one million giraffes. Ola presents the giraffes in several ways--as individual images, statistically , on a map , even via a goofy game where you can view giraffes and guess the age of the people who made them.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or, for an extra high touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists. That way, they can select their own online board games, host trivia, virtual bingo, or online game tournaments.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

While it sounds paradoxical, I'm more likely to talk about and bring friends to a place I perceive as exclusive than one that is transparent, because I feel like I'm more likely to offer them value by sharing the secret experience. Of course, the problem with all of this is that it sounds crazy from a business perspective.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or for an extra high-touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists. GAME NIGHTS & CRAFTING. TUTORING ART. Don’t be afraid to call on your supporters!

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Game-Changers. Sheroes in the Arts. American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Are you inspired by women in the arts? Thought Leaders.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I saw every part of our vacation through the lens of the book, and my climbing partner (a highly active and artistic guy) and I spent a lot of time analyzing the choices we did and didn't make and how they reflected our expressions of identity. In both cases, our identity needs were met.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. It's common in many museums to offer cart-based activities that invite visitors (mostly families) to play a game, try an experiment, or make art.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2015

The core of the church is a 2,000-seat theater with a fully functional performance stage and state-of-the-art audio and video capability. Members of the congregation get together for family-friendly potlucks to watch West Virginia University games on the big screens. Tools the Church Uses to Do It All.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

This might make Advice sound more like an educational program than an exhibit, or like a failure on the unfacilitated front. In Praise of the Post-It There's lots of post-it-powered art on the web these days (like this and this ). But the exhibit team did something novel. Not so for the post-its.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

One of the most common situations we see here, at Funding for Good, with groups that are 4, 5, 6, 7-years-old, they’re starting to apply for grants, you know, they’re upping their fundraising game, and they’re trying to share the impact from their first years. ” So everything’s a guesstimate. .”

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