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Announcing The Art of Relevance Audiobook! Get Your for Free Today.

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The great Jon Moscone lent his voice to his preface, too. You can also listen to a five-minute sample from the introduction to get a sense of what it sounds like. So I am thrilled to announce that The Art of Relevance audiobook is now available for YOU to listen to on Audible , Amazon , and iTunes.

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ISO Understanding: Rethinking Art Museum Labels

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But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. MOMA has standard art museum labels. When I asked an art museum educator about this (“How should I look at art?”) Sounds great. The review was harsh. I loved that.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

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Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. In December of 2012, the rock musician Beck released his latest album, Song Reader. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Guest Post: Lessons Learned Designing a Mobile Game for Balboa Park

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The goal was to design an audio tour for people who never do audio tours. Lessons Learned 3: This is not a museum talking (what a relief!) Being a museum must be exhausting – you have to know so much and speak so carefully. And widely accessible. Play any time, as much as you like, and play with any cellphone.

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Helping Strangers Participate through Instructions: Deconstructing the MP3 Experiment

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I particularly like the MP3 experiments , events at which Improv Everywhere distribute an audio file to people for free as a podcast. Participants gather in a physical venue with their own digital audio players, and everyone hits “play” at the same time. Two and a half minutes in, the “omnipotent voice” Steve introduces himself.

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Design for Social Engagement: Pointing at Exhibits

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Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. The photos above were provided by Paul Martin of the Science Museum of Minnesota from their award-winning exhibition RACE. But in the museum, the distribution method is more personal. Tags: design participatory museum.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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--Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE.