Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"? I counted at least five different schemes in the six-page section on "Participatory Arts in Practice," and none of these were explicitly referenced in the subsequent case studies.

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Participatory Arts Report Case Study 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

The Sitings contest invites students to propose an installation and the two proposals that win each year are awarded grants and displayed in the Museum. The Siskind Center gives students and the public the opportunity to pore over the photography in the Museum's large collection of works on paper.

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Museum Rhode Island University Student 37

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 They just finished a YouTube video contest. We saw that these artists were using the wall, then telling us about it on Flickr. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. We’re very clear about our photography policy everywhere.

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Museum Interview Flickr YouTube 27

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click!

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

is an exhibition of photos that were submitted by open call and judged by individuals over the Web in an experiment following the collective intelligence model set forth by James Surowiecki in his book The Wisdom of Crowds. It’s not really a photography show in the way I would curate a photography show.” And that’s a good thing.

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Museum Artist Photography Arts 20