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

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It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Sheet music is a beautiful analogy for this.

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Great Participatory Processes are Open, Discoverable, and Unequal

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Dan writes about the explicit and implied "rules" of participation for musicians that create great music both onstage and for the crowd. When I think about what makes for great participatory experiences in both poetry open mics and jazz jams, it comes down to three basic things: The process is open. The process is discoverable.

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Art Brings People Together: Measuring the Power of Social Bridging

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I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. When the music video was not focused on Mexican culture, no such change occurred. This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school.

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Psst. Want an Internship?

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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. Please help us. Our website is navigationally challenged. You don't have to be in Santa Cruz for this one.

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This is What the Participatory Museum Sounds Like

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95% of our piano users play music, beautifully. This is the participatory museum, played out loud. Sometimes a lover's duet. This week, it was a little guy , attended by a stuffed toy on the piano bench. It's rare that someone sits down to bang out noise. The piano is a simple invitation to meaningful visitor participation.

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Creative Profiling: Tools for Defining and Understanding Your Audience

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And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. With social media and participatory experiences, we shouldn't just focus our design efforts on what sounds cool or is easy to conceive. design participatory museum.

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How Does Participation Work in Multi-Lingual Museums?

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Many fabulous participatory projects--like the Johnny Cash Project or the Art Gallery of Ontario's " In Your Face "--don't require language. You could even get creative with documentation--photos instead of text, music instead of words--but it's limiting. So what are the options?

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