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

Museum 2.0

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In December of 2012, the rock musician Beck released his latest album, Song Reader.

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The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guidestar has multiple office locations, so this session was done as a virtual meeting using a platform and apps that offered features like chat, desktop sharing, polling, white board, sticky notes, and audio and video conferencing. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Design must comes first.

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Ze's work has always gone beyond the digital.

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How Does Participation Work in Multi-Lingual Museums?

Museum 2.0

While there are some kinds of participation that are not language-based like making art or voting, most participation is lingual. Many fabulous participatory projects--like the Johnny Cash Project or the Art Gallery of Ontario's " In Your Face "--don't require language. use digital interfaces. What have you tried?

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Helping Strangers Participate through Instructions: Deconstructing the MP3 Experiment

Museum 2.0

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. I particularly like the MP3 experiments , events at which Improv Everywhere distribute an audio file to people for free as a podcast. How can you provide as friendly and comforting an introduction to strange cultural experiences as Steve does?

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

We're taking the art of freelancing for writers, and making it much more transparent and much more public. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. Is it video and audio?

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Exhibits and Artifacts as Social Objects

Museum 2.0

Unlike digital networks, which have to manufacture or solicit online versions of objects around which users can rally, museums are full of objects. There are many collections-rich museums that have created ways for visitors to create their own digital collections. Gifting is a powerful participatory behavior. Not all Web 2.0

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