Alright, #musetech nerds! Here's what we covered in week 2 of "Museums and New Media" at @GUmuseumstudies...
First, an oldie but goodie: 1998 Morrisey and Worts list article lists a range of interpretive strategies for engaging visitors using technology (think outside mere content delivery!) academia.edu/9284639/A_Plac…
Of course, it wouldn't be a discussion of art museums and technology without a debate about selfies and Instagram! lamag.com/culturefiles/i…
We brought our exploration of the various roles of technology in museums (and how they should map to mission/audience/goals) with a look at @WomenInTheArts viral #name5womenartists campaign (heads up, they're running it again in March!) huffingtonpost.com/entry/can-you-…
We were lucky to host @mkurlandsky whose career path took her from museum studies to exhibition project manager to digital coordinator. Hear more from her about the realities of #musetech on a budget in this fab interview: musete.ch/2017/11/05/mar…
In our "What's 🔥 this week" segment of the class we talked about @googlearts wildly popular selfie-portrait app addition--including its fun factor and its flaws. See @MichaelFNunez's take on the feature's race problem: mashable.com/2018/01/16/goo…
We also looked at @Tate's use of VR to recreate and immerse visitors in Modigliani's art studio. Inspiring project but we debated: was it worth the $ and time? tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-…
And, finally, I shared a day-in-the-life #musesocial experience responding to an impassioned Twitter discussion on the relative merits of crowdsourcing and whether its promoters in cultural orgs are woke or not narations.blogs.archives.gov/2018/01/18/why…
That's it for week 2! Next up during week 3: Online collections. We'll explore how to publish *usable* collection information and interrogate openness as a value in museums. #musetech
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"When people can actively participate with cultural institutions, those places become central to cultural and community life." - @ninaksimon See also Chapter 1: Principles of Participation participatorymuseum.org/chapter1/
We also read a guest post on @ninaksimon's blog about the "Oh Snap!" project which involved online and offline participation, including a physical exhibit of visitor-contributed photos surrounding works from the @CarnegieArtMuse collection museumtwo.blogspot.com/2013/03/guest-…
[#musetech syllabus thread: week 7!] This week's topic? MOBILE. We talked about techniques for are offering museum experiences anytime and anywhere... #mtogo
(There's a ton of ways to think about this topic so bear with me as I share a bunch of awesome links!)
One of my favorite #musetech articles of all time: "Catching Our Breath: Assessing Digital Technologies for Meaningful Engagement," by Mann, Moses and Fisher in @NAMExhibitions journal fall 2013 goo.gl/ACPuUM
[#musetech syllabus thread: week 5!] This week's theme was digitization and, boy, did we get lucky with a guest lecture by @dzorich! We read the @SIxDIGI's founding 2010 document "Creating a Digital Smithsonian" si.edu/content/pdf/ab…
[#musetech syllabus thread: week 4!] This week we explored how museums are opening up collections for re-use and rethinking storytelling in the digital age. Saddle up!
[#musetech syllabus thread: week 3!] This week my "Museums and New Media" class explored online collections. We discussed how to publish *usable* collection information and explored openness as a value in museums.
"Digital Knowledgescapes: Cultural, Theoretical, Practical, and Usage Issues Facing Museum Collection Databases in a Digital Epoch" by Fiona Cameron and Helena Robinson (2007) problematizes traditional museum approaches to documentation in the digital age. …tpress.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7551/m…
A good quote from Cameron and Robinson's piece to ponder. When we publish from collection management systems straight to the web, are we thinking through the implications of that choice? Are we creating supportive educational spaces online or...? 🤔