iSay: The Shape of Things, 31 January 2013
Artwork-centred sociality in museums and galleries Marcus Winter University of Brighton
Artwork-centred sociality in museums and galleries
Imagine looking at an object not for its artistic or historical significance but for its ability to spark conversation Nina Simon (2010) The Participatory Museum
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Social objects: Personal | Active | Provocative | Relational
(Simon, 2010)
Source: Museum of Design in Plastics
Source: Kentucky Derby Museum
Source: Göteborg Museum of Art
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Source: The Saatchi Gallery
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Artwork-centred sociality in museums and galleries
Michael Craig-Martin: An Oak Tree (1973). Tate Britain
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Artwork-centred sociality in museums and galleries
Visitor Feedback | Interpretation | Commenting | Debate
Source: Tate Modern
Source: Tate Modern
Source: London College of Fashion
Source: Art Works / Plains Art Museum
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Visitor Book at the Rijksmuseum Schipol Airport
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Conservation | Remediation | Accountability | Display capacity
Source: Tate Modern
Source: Tate Modern
Source: London College of Fashion
Source: Art Works / Plains Art Museum
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Immediacy
Source: British Museum
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Digital approaches RFID-based tour system with instant micro blogging (Hsu & Liao, 2011) → attach and read comments → post to social network “allows the visitor to share his/her note or remark about the exhibit with others through the Internet.”
Qrator (Gray et al. 2012) → interactive object label “Comments become part of the object’s history and ultimately the display itself”
Fluxguide (Seirafi, 2012) → Web 2.0 for GLAMs “multi-media guiding enriched with new communicative, participative, and personalized features”
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Investment | Change of practice | User experience
Source: FluxGuide (2013)
Source: QRator project / Petrie Museum
Source: QRator project / Grant Museum of Zoology
Source: Hsu & Liao (2011)
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Artwork-centred sociality in museums and galleries
iSay: The Shape of Things, 31 January 2013
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Artwork-centred sociality in museums and galleries
Dashboard for curators: analytics and editorial control
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Artwork-centred sociality in museums and galleries
> Put up when & as long as needed > Assign to exhibit and configure on the fly > Independent of existing systems and work practices
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Artwork-centred sociality in museums and galleries
> Talk to me > Take part in research > Try it in your museum or gallery
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References Engeström, J. (2005). Why some social network services work and others don’t – Or: the case for objectcentered sociality. Blog post 13 April 2005. Available: http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2005/04/ why-some-social-network-services-work-and-others-dont-or-the-case-for-object-centeredsociality.html. Accessed 7 December 2012. Fluxguide (2013). Homepage http://www.fluxguide.com/index_en.php. Accessed 28 January 2013. Gray, S., Ross, C., Hudson-Smith, A. & Warwick, C. (2012). Enhancing Museum Narratives with the QRator Project: a Tasmanian devil, a Platypus and a Dead Man in a Box. Proceedings of Museums and the Web.
Hsu, H. & Liao, H. (2011). A mobile RFID-based tour system with instant microblogging. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 77(4), pp. 720–727. Knorr Cetina, K. (1997) Sociality with Objects: Social Relations in Postsocial Knowledge Societies Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 14(4): 1-30 Seirafi , A. & Seirafi, M.K. (2012). FLUXGUIDE: Mobile Computing, Social-Web & Participation @ the Museum. Institut fuer Creative, Media, Technologies. Available: http://www.fluxguide.com /uploads /4/2/3/3/4233655/paperforummedientechnik2011_fluxguide_red.pdf. Accessed 26 March 2012. Simon, N. (2010). The Participatory Museum. Santa Cruz, California: Museum 2.0, 2010. Available: http://www.participatorymuseum.org/. Accessed 7 December 2012.
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