Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. Ian and Sam design real-world games that encourage people to engage in ordinary environments in extraordinary ways.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Early this month, I got the chance to hear legendary game designer Will Wright (Sim City) give a talk. In his talk, Wright said one thing that really stood out: Game players have a negotiated agency that is determined by how the game is designed. Negotiation" implies a respectful relationship between institution (or artist) and user.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 17, 2011

As many of you know, in addition to blogging and podcasting for myself and others, I'm also a blogging trainer and coach for artists, writers, creative entrepreneurs and do-gooders. She made me very, very comfortable and created an environment to learn and get ideas. Britt was so engaging and personable that the time just flew by.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny Goldstein will do real time illustrations of the ideas swirling around the session which will be projected live and that will help us move towards a common understanding and enable us to share an artifact with others. What should we be building to help artists make and sell art, engage their audiences, and connect to other artists?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. is in conflict with (currently, Iran).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

These are unpaid, part-time internships in which you will make a significant contribution to our work, and at the same time, learn a heck of a lot about participatory design and community engagement. Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program. and I have always wanted to find ways to invite them in.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We designed events and interactive exhibits on ten dollar budgets. We upped the budgets and the scale of the projects while maintaining an iterative approach that relies on prototyping and low-tech experiments. We scrounged for free couches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Ann Wizer is an artist who uses design and education to protect the environment and reduce poverty. I want to design well made recycled bags. The shoppers won't go to the landfill, so I needed to get the designers there." Ann is an activist and an artist. The context is that many projects don't offer this.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

In this post, she writes about Experimonth, an intriguing set of crowd-sourced projects that connect scientists with research participants in surprising ways. As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. The project blew away our expectations. Experimonth started out as play.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Ever wish for a low-cost, energizing professional development experience where you can work intensely with diverse colleagues in a risk-tolerant environment? If you've ever wanted to design an object-based exhibit that really pushed the boundaries, this is the event for you. The Arts Dinner-vention Project - date TBD.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Find the Future was the overarching theme of the projects. So much of the project was really about convening social groups and we see it continuing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

But how do we get organizational mindsets to shift or at least create an environment where self-care is valued and becomes the norm? Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. The most recent one was during the The National Arts Marketing Project Conference.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process." The Art of Participation has elements throughout the SFMOMA building, and while some are well-placed, others feel ill-suited to their environment. But openness is safe.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We have partnered with the county-wide community assessment project to learn more about the demographics, interests, and needs of local residents. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. If we don't focus on designing for bridging, it won't happen.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. In the meantime, here are some.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

Last year, I met Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project , an extremely cool "post-educational" space in Los Angeles that is part art gallery, part workshop space, part mad scientist party central. They host events like Dorkbake in which people design their own Easybake-esque ovens and then bake cakes in them.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Despite the fact that we often think of welcoming places as being designed "for everybody," the places where we actually feel most welcomed and comfortable are often designed not for everyone but instead feel like they are made just for us. Tags: design Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion. What's going on here?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I was the project manager/curator for the exhibition, leading both the Second Life-based community exhibit design process and the real world translation of virtual exhibits. We shrunk the exhibit design process (concept to floor) from 2 years to five months. One exhibit designer told me, "we never seem to lack for good ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. Arts Wire, a project of NYFA, was originally intended to be a place for artists from all over the country to meet, exchange ideas, and talk about their work via the Internet.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hybrid: A hybrid auction takes the tools used in the virtual environment and brings them to the physical world. For a fun twist, nonprofits can design some of the trivia around their own causes and values, reiterating their impact on supporters. Either can be accomplished in a fully digital environment.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2009

It's not that I don't firmly believe in the power and potential of what technology has to offer, it's just that so often it's a red herring when we're designing experiences for our visitors. Give them something rewarding, some meaty bit of fun and engagement and concentrate on designing what that experience could and should be.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. Design firms' projects often have a common look across different cities and institutions. It creates another forgettable museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. A month ago, I invited you to join this project. The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. The barriers to entry are high.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The program operates like a camp that is co-led by the teens involved.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library's resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Find the Future: The Game Find the Future was the overarching theme of the projects. My focus is on how children learn science.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! This spanned all the projects.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

There are maker spaces popping up for all kinds of artists, crafters, and independent entrepeneurs who want a shared space to congregate, share ideas, and work on projects. Noisebridge defines itself as "an infrastructure provider for technical-creative projects, collaboratively run by its members. This isn't just a geek thing.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I proudly steer some of Forum One’s most complex projects, including Colorado’s Department of Public Health and Environment’s WIC platform, Washington State’s All-Payer Claims Database, and Fujifilm’s Sonosite. First up is our talented Tech team! I’m Doug Stumberger, Interim CTO.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

The first 150 pages give a background on Internet art projects in museums, ongoing debates about their value, and Internet art's place in traditional collections. may be best suited to a web-only environment, where visitors can surf unrestrained. But if not, why not experiment with new ways to design it into the space?

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

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. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

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. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

The NYT article is about a photography show by artist Thomas Struth at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Manhattan. Says the reviewer, Michael Kimmelman, Mr. Struth’s pictures are about this continuum, from artists like Velázquez into the public spaces where their works end up, and to us. What are we looking for in a museum?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

He started out as a poet, started messing around on the internet with digital media, and launched into a series of highly unusual interactive projects. As an artist and a lecturer at the university, I'm expected to put my work up in competitions as art. And really it’s just designed to meet the centerpoint. game, game, and.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). Proposals can be for either core or project-specific support. Areas served: California. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). Proposals can be for either core or project-specific support. Areas served: California. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

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