Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2014

They recall other artistic work that breaks fourth walls--classically in theater, and more recently in new media projects. And I think of brilliant people in other mediums--authors like Herve Tullet, artists like Ze Frank--who are breaking walls we didn''t even know existed. interactives Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

For comparison’s sake — Apple’s Ping had 2,000 artists two months out of the gate.)&# I’ve been playing around with the new social platform this morning and wanted to share some of my early reactions. (So How does your purpose for engagement influence your choice of platform? Facebook Requirements. Beyond a Platform.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

The theme of MCON 2015 is “The Power of Influence: Art, Media, Business and Place” and an incredible lineup of speakers from the corporate, nonprofit and public sectors will share stories of the successes and failures they’ve encountered while changing the world. How do managers influence participation in company cause work?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above). He is an authoritative artist of the social web with a slew of accolades and a suite of diverse projects under his belt.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Below are two excellent e-books put out by the National Arts Marketing Project, one on artistic interventions in uncommon places , and one on taking a leap of faith with "weird" programming. creative placemaking institutional change Unusual Projects and Influences' Each of us is a connector to new work and new worlds.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Negotiation" implies a respectful relationship between institution (or artist) and user. Sometimes the negotiation can be exploited for artistic means. The theater is dark and the artist breaks the fourth wall and asks for conversation. The institution initiates the negotiation with a set of opportunities and constraints.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. You can check out all twenty research projects here. The teams delivered.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

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. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. Everything old is new again.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Read the original post on this project for more info. Too often, cultural institutions design participatory projects that require visitors to learn new tools or make sacrifices to contribute.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end. The "love locks" are not a project with an institutional or artistic director. So many participatory projects do the opposite, requiring you to take a dozen tricky steps to no meaningful end.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. This citywide festival showcased work by 1,517 artists competing for a $200,000 top cash prize awarded by public vote. The Brooklyn Museum just finished the public stage of GO , a "community-curated open studio project." Full stats here.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

Here’s My Chance (HMC), a creative agency that works exclusively with nonprofits and socially responsible businesses, produced the project. Over the course of our 24-week voter engagement campaign, NSD hired 60 artists to create 60 “Vote Here/Vote Aqui” signs. The artists came from more than 20 different Philadelphia neighborhoods.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

project will focus on apps for arts organizations, with a practical. artist's influences and the exhibit, in the artist's own words. For example, YBCA's audiences loved having access to artists' own unfiltered words. This Cool App Roundup from the App It Up. engage with public art?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

We have witnessed and experienced incredible moments of transformation: homeless people and history buffs working together on historic restoration, graffiti artists and knitters collaborating on new artistic projects, visitors from different backgrounds making collages, or sculptures, or dance performances together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. s Blog about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. Chalk up my vote for 2011’s “Best Debut Artist” and “Best Supporting Actor.”. MiACLU is a one-of-a-kind project born from this framework.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2015

Year after year, MCON proves to be an unforgettable experience for artists, media, social entrepreneurs, corporate, nonprofit and public leaders, and passionate people from across the country. Media: Journalists and producers representing both digital and traditional media who are highlighting social issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. James assembled a group of funders and the talented Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area , a local arts service organization to help implement project. Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

They closed for capricious financial reasons, and they left disappointed artists and participants in their wake. Pitch your project to a struggling symphony. Museum of Art and History Unusual Projects and Influences business models' Could each have offered MORE community value? Absolutely. Recombine them. Reenergize them.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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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. The project blew away our expectations. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Experimonth started out as play.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

We are also engaging with the Government of Iraq through the development of new web portals that will assist with project management and connecting with citizens of the country. government, members of the diplomatic corps, successful business and civil society leaders, philanthropists, media professionals, academics, artists etc.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

He leads the research efforts for The Millennial Impact Project and serves as president of Achieve , a research and creative agency for causes. Anna is the co-founder, CEO and idea generator behind Fashion Project, a powerful movement turning closets into cash for charities around the world. What else inspires participation?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

We receive frequent inquiries from artists and community members about how thy might submit exhibition proposals for consideration by our institution. participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion' Opaque funding decisions don''t help anyone. Exhibition proposals. These suffer from a lack of openness.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

When I first heard about OdysseyWorks, I thought their projects were indulgent novelties. OdysseyWorks' projects get to the heart of the fiercest debates in the arts today. As artistic director Abe Burickson described their work to me, I imagined Theseus walking deeper into the labyrinth towards the Minotaur.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Here are some examples, and my thoughts on implications for foundations: Crowdsourcing Generation of Data and Ideas: AID Data is starting a new project to mesh “official data” on development aid from donors with “observational data from people on the ground.” " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

Again and again, I've been inspired by projects that invite collaboration in informal, ongoing, flexible ways. While all kinds of collaborations can be useful--and long-term, deep collaborations are often the most transformative--informal, low-cost projects can often make community participation possible.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Two students, Jenny Burrows and Matt Kappler, created an unauthorized ad campaign for the Smithsonian as part of a school project. These unauthorized projects were engaging and attractive. When assessing these kinds of unauthorized activities, here are the three things I'd consider: What's the quality of the project?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? And the projects themselves are brilliant.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2014

With over 15 years of nonprofit industry experience, Michael has worked with nonprofit customers across North America and the United Kingdom to implement full-scale projects and business process improvement projects. Define how can each staff member influence or impact the results. Maintain Loyalty. Many will never get there.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

Imagine asking perfect strangers to make something, with no prior training or relationship, that will become the most visible part of a project you've been working on for months or years. 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.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

Unusual Projects and Influences. to educators permanently. there may be some great opportunities for collaboration for museums, too.

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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. Tags: design Unusual Projects and Influences game. Distinctively, it eschews the "clean, dull, lifelessness" of standard web art and design for a messier look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. This would have increased the scope of the project, of course. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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