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. Sounds like that's a great way to play with the idea of the Ministry being a "shadow" organization within the larger museum. How did this project come about? They were the Inspectors.

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Interview Museum Badge Game 37

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Oakland-based performance artist, Aya De León , shared her secrets for a healthy relationship: Being in a relationship, particularly as a black woman with a black man, just means that we are each bringing our own land mines to the relationship. My teeth ground in frustration as I reminded her that I am Javier's other mom. We Got Issues!

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Issue Voice Oakland New Mexico 40

Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

Sound scary? The artistic power of what I saw came from the palpable sense of risk--for the participants, for the dancers, and for the entire audience in the room. This week, I met New York choreographer Dean Moss and learned about his fascinating contemporary dance piece Kisaeng Becomes You (2009).

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Audience New York Instruction Instructional 37

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

John details five identity needs that are well-served by museums: explorer, experience seeker, recharger, professional/hobbyist, and facilitator. And the facilitator wants his friends and family to have a good time. The explorer is a curious person who loves to dig into things. The recharger wants a mental break in a relaxing setting.

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Museum Maslow Facilitation Personal 28

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

CNN "Many of the games at Babycastles don't fit the traditional definitions of the medium; they veer closer to artistic experimentation than they do to mass-market viability." - New York Times Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The point of Second Life is to lower the barrier to build things--things that move, things that make sounds, things you can explore (like exhibits). The same thing applies to exhibits, but Second Life is a tool that facilitates making the exhibit in a more accessible way than full-scale fabrication. We'd talk about the work itself.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

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. You can incentivize higher contributions by offering a recording of the event at higher donation levels.

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Fundraising Virtual Game Hosting 52

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. You can incentivize higher contributions by offering a recording of the event at higher donation levels.

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Fundraising Virtual Game Hosting 97

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Kind of like artists, a lot of passion and drive can create great things, but they aren't necessarily sustainable over time. They're artists so they think big. I think that government really should facilitate an environment that nurtures business development, and then get out of the way. What does big really mean for us?

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Oakland San Francisco Companies Business 61

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

In doing so, we want to achieve a way for the community to access the natural heritage through the sonic filter, and basically be able to connect to each other’s perceptions about quiet through the ability to record the sounds directly from the natural environment. How are you selecting the people who will record the sounds?

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Interview Museum Culture Sound 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. This sound installation is delightful and adds surprise to the museum. With one exception, no single activity cost more than $30 to produce/maintain.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Sounds like it has great possibilities; time will tell. Its also valuable for small business, artists, and much more. I just read about the launch and this gave it a viewpoint beyond those who created it.

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Trend New York Blackbaud Argentina 80

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor. But the exhibit team did something novel.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." I know it may sound like I'm asking for something overly structured, but compare It Is What It Is with another dialogue project, the Living Library.

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Iraq Challenge Museum Library 28

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. ” Well, you know, it sounds like a good goal, right, but do I need to lose that? “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.” I want to lose 5 pounds.”

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Report Measure Impact Process 77

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This essay, written in 1991, reflects Elaine's experience on the planning staff for the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) on the Mall as an "insider/outsider"--a "hired gun" with museum know-how facilitating the creation of someone else's museum. all of which are not yet comfortable exhibition processes.

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Culture Storytelling Challenge Museum 20

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. Britt: That sounds like some of the things that are the most joyful parts of the things you do. We never saw it in action before we started doing it.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40