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Guest Post: Weaving Community Collaborations into Permanent Installations at the Denver Art Museum

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Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. They’re tagging with yarn.

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

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In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. 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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Technology for Experience's Sake: Guest Post by Bruce Wyman

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In this guest post, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, shares his process for developing interactive technologies to extend familiar experiences in art museums. You may remember the Denver Art Museum from this post about their newest (highly interactive) exhibit space, Side Trip.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We decided to follow our artists and engage the audience on this issues. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c We go to WOW server and get a group together. Engage in some practices that overcome differences.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. Their use of the web to connect independent artists all over the world was striking and very surprising. Tags: professional development. This was particularly true for Click!,

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