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Museum 2.0
APRIL 2, 2014
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. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. We had some money.
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MAY 26, 2015
Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Guidestar has a history of doing walking meetings, especially one on ones and at its Williamsburg location. Like many organizations, I heard some of the same challenges to incorporating walking meetings: We often review digital information at our meetings so it is hard to walk.
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. 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.
Museum 2.0
JANUARY 25, 2012
This past Friday, we experimented with a new feedback format at an evening event focused on poetry and book arts. The booth was a nice way to celebrate what participants had done--and to create a digital record that they can keep and share. Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself?
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 16, 2010
I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 20, 2009
While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. There are thriving groups of Flickr users who share photos of themselves imitating art.
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