Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

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. Tags: design usercontent inclusion. So what are the options?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. I'm biased, because she's demonstrating a participatory project, but she was able to "show, not tell" her interest in engaging with people. Music videos. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. You gift the community a book review, I gift an overlapping community a music review. That may be true.

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Gift Participatory Museum Site 23

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

Side Trip is an immersive environment full of interactive experiences that let visitors share their own stories of the 1960s, make their own rock posters, and explore the music and vibe of the time. As your hands move through the records, the music changes to whatever record you are currently checking out. Magical, simple, surprising.

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Denver Museum Arts Participatory 21

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. The recording starts with two and a half minutes of music without talking. The experiment continues, and participants do stranger and stranger things—following people, playing freeze tag, taking pictures of each other, forming a giant dartboard.

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Instructional Instruction Experiment Nicaragua 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

But it's the same inhibition that allows otherwise shy people to dance with strangers at clubs--for some people, loud music and a less intimate setting are opportunities for social interaction rather than limiters. Ideas participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences visitors. Tags: Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine bonfires, musical jam sessions, and iron chef exhibit design. We've created an alternative website to provide a more participatory version of the standard pre-conference informational site. Tags: Quick Hits professional development. Imagine making and playing together. Sounds good?

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Collaboration Registration Brain Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Slides Museum Participatory San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

We rarely offer alcoholic beverages, comfortable seating, background music, or free admission to go with the art, lectures, and interactive experiences now available in many hybrid retail spaces. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion. Tags: Core Museum 2.0

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Museum Library Participatory Web 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

On the web, such socializing can happen around games (MMOs), shopping (Amazon discussions), trip planning (TripAdvisor), music or book collections ( Librarything ). Ideas design participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 the list goes on. Please share your thoughts.

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Museum Interaction Participatory Relationship 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Yes, bars have always featured live music, comedy, and spoken word. But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. Tags: programs inclusion. Flash back six months and I'm with friends at a hip bar in Washington DC, losing miserably at a weekly trivia night. Why not do it at the museum?

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Museum Lecture Denver Journal 22

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

There were thousands of people in the park for plays, free music, and beautiful scenery. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. I was at San Diego's Balboa Park two weeks ago for a workshop and spent a glorious evening wandering the gardens, outdoor concert halls, and sports fields. See the link to the left.

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Community Museum San Diego Participatory 22

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

Imagine a music store where each CD lists the names of the last 20 people to pick it up, and what those people ultimately bought. Tags: participatory museum visitors. When we think of ways to extend the 2.0 social networking model to the real world, the implications of tracking, publishing, and spreading become obvious.

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Museum Myspace Social Network Interaction 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Tags: exhibition Tech Virtual. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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Virtual Lesson Community Tech 21

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

I watched many entertaining shorts featuring students explaining exhibits to the beat of popular and illegally uploaded music. Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing participatory museum. If I'm an engaged spectator in the groundswell--using Yelp! sites form my understanding of what the Exploratorium is.

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Museum Teen Community Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

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. It could be a tag-team art/history lecture series. This one is wide open. It could be a game show. It could be an exhibit jam.

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Museum History Arts Participatory 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

You can also tags. In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media. Music in video: Wonder Drums by porchcat That is important if you want to stream them with a tool like splashr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge. innovator.

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