Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

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. Community artists gave their honest feedback, and we crafted a display based on these discussions and their contributions. They’re tagging with yarn.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Tags: linklove. Early registration deadline is Nov. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. It could be a tag-team art/history lecture series. This one is wide open. It could be a game show. It could be an exhibit jam.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. I'm biased, because she's demonstrating a participatory project, but she was able to "show, not tell" her interest in engaging with people. In general, I liked videos made by artists, but some got overly poetic.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

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. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 It's not self-important.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

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! which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences. Tags: children's museums design business models. I've only visited about 0.01% of the institutions out there and I suspect that the other 99.99% includes some real gems. It creates another forgettable museum.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

Darcie described the Centre Pompidou in Paris as a place where she is surrounded by working artists, where things change frequently, and where she feels as a visitor that anything can happen. Tags: Talking to Strangers participatory museum comfort. And the community feeling happens in a way that feels natural and visitor-driven.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The groups can use three different approaches: physical, artistic, or traditional word presentation. Not only does the activity support local artists, it challenges how outsiders and insiders engage with each other and share knowledge in a conference setting. Tags: professional development. Are you headed to Houston?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We are now actively looking at ways to build on this success in all our exhibitions, although it’s a much bigger challenge in touring or artist-curated shows. Projects participatory museum. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 Just like live reality TV, Top 40 felt like a risk at times.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Here’s what happened: an art critic named Jerry Saltz posted an incendiary note on Facebook about the very low representation of women artists on the 4th and 5th floors (painting and sculpture) of MoMA. When those spaces are factored in, there are more than 250 works by female artists on view now. Tags: web2.0 Let’s start there.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

In Chapter 3, McCloud identifies six different methods by which comic artists transition from one panel to another (for example, scene-to-scene or action-to-action). X-Men) and artists. Ideas design participatory museum interactives. Tags: web2.0 As Shulman said, the directionality is situational.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

The good news is that there are hundreds of thousands of people debating the content of every book, scientific principle, and artistic movement on the Web right now. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 From the Web 2.0 revolution, we have to learn to be generous with our assets.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In some cases, the artist is not comfortable, or there are insurance and liability issues. If you are interested in this topic, you might enjoy this interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard and Chapter 2 of The Participatory Museum. Tags: marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0 Seeing the installation process was a big one.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. I see the Living Library both as a useful tool and as an inspiration for other ways to reconceptualize traditional institutional frames.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. To produce that content, I put an ad on craigslist and invited artists down to The Tech to be videotaped while creating art.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The artists come from all over (though many are based in the Midwest), and anyone can enter. Artprize invited me to talk about art with artists, families, security guards, friends, people old and young, sophisticated and novice, drunk and sober. Then get yourself to Grand Rapids for Artprize. It's the social experience. The prizes?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent. In the end, the Advice exhibit offered four main experiences--two that were facilitated, and two that were unfacilitated. What advice do you have for ways we might advance the practice of exhibit design for social interaction?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. Many museums do not provide participants with clear terms surrounding their submissions, and for savvy people (especially artists!) In their personal statements, beach artists wrote about profound connections to nature.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

When asked why these artistic directors were pursuing co-creative processes, "to make great art!" Respondents also talked about growing as artists through the process and the incredible things they learned from working with non-professionals. When an institution becomes wholly participatory, those distinctions often erode.

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