Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. 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).

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Museum Participatory Artist History 45

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The ASTC (the Association of Science and Technology Centers) annual meeting is coming up in LA (home of my childhood), and Museum 2.0 In a world of increasingly sterile museum environments, the Museum of Jurassic Technology is a beacon of emotion, strangeness, and wonder. And if you want a more traditional Museum 2.0

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Museum Tech Childhood Artist 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

Recently, I’ve become a little disheartened by the extent to which the web has dominated my—and others’—thinking about ways that museums can integrate 2.0 But today I had an experience that reinvigorated my love for and belief in tangible projects that can fill museums with content that is user-generated, shared, and explored.

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Generation Content Lesson Museum 30

NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I keep on telling my story of how I moved between the East and West, between physical environments (architecture, urban design) and virtual (web and mobile development and strategy), between technology and the humanities. Historians can narrate stories of a city’s development or you can tell your own story of fond childhood memories.

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Storytelling Story Mobile North Korea 87

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2007

I’ve been conditioned by the inconsistent quality of web 2.0 They advertised the competition on the web, and only accepted online entries. They received over 4,000 submissions from all 50 states, which were judged by a panel of seven—including museum staff and outside artists. to look askance at contests.

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Artist Museum Childhood Arts 20