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

Museum 2.0

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Adventures in Participatory Audience Engagement at the Henry Art Gallery

Museum 2.0

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived.

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Connected Citizens Report: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Listening to and consulting the crowds: Actively listening to online conversations and openly asking for advice. Decentralization and Individual Empowerment: As power is pushed to the edges, individuals will have an increasing ability to exert influence through social and broadcast media. These themes include: 1.

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SXSW: Using Social Media to Accelerate Sustainability

Amy Sample Ward

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Social Media Influencers: as an individual you can join forces, share ideas, communicate.

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Join Us at NTC 2014

Tech Soup

If you’re a tech champion – or you’re on your way, join TechSoup’s CEO Rebecca Masisak for a big-picture conversation about what that really means. Nonprofit Leader Forum : Help influence consulting services to better serve nonprofit needs. Hear Our CEO Speak on Technology and Big Ideas for Change.

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Thinking about User Participation in Terms of Negotiated Agency

Museum 2.0

The theater is dark and the artist breaks the fourth wall and asks for conversation. institutional change relationships participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences game visitors' Patrons clap between movements. Visitors talk over the tour guide. Sometimes the negotiation can be exploited for artistic means.

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