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Tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

dbear — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:08:12 +0000

MW2011

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new media

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social tagging

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Marc Chagall

Abstract:

Members of the museum's web team and collections information project
will discuss the online collection database and special exhibition
components of the museums' web site. The museum has used its own cell
phone audio system and uses audio and video podcasts extensively to
enhance the visitor experience online and in the galleries. The current
work on the Chagall video tour
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/401.html will be highlighted.
User contributed content and how that integrates into the collection
information pages and exhibition pages will also be demonstrated,
highlighting the work that has been done with social tagging of objects
and exhibition discussions that are accessed both online and in the
gallery.

Type:

Other Interaction - describe in notes

Tour 2: New Media in Arts and Social Science Museums

Authors:

William Weinstein

Tour of the National Museum of America Jewish History

dbear — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:04:47 +0000

MW2011

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new media

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jewish history

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The National Museum of America Jewish History has just opened in November 2010, come have a personal tour of the new exhibitions with the Museum's Media Designer and Producer Jake Barton of Local Projects, and the Museum's Head Curator, Josh Perelman. The Museum showcases a wide range of cutting edge media experiences, including the Contemporary Issues Forum a dialogue space that mixes custom stickies with video-capture, Its Your Story, a videobooth that creates a dynamic playback loop of visitor responses based on tagging, and Dreams of Freedom a 40' wide Media Sculpture with projected stories of immigrants onto enormous sheets of curled paper letters.

Type:

Other Interaction - describe in notes

Tour 2: New Media in Arts and Social Science Museums

Authors:

Josh Perelman

Heritage at Play: Open-source Intermedia Solutions to Documentation and Knowledge Exchange

colleen_brogan — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:27:31 +0000

MW2011

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Social Media Tactics for Culture Projects: Lessons from the Heritage at Play Project

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new media

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documentary practices

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digital multimedia documentation

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web 2.0 cross media

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intermedia

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In Summer 2010, two cultural heritage and new media scholars, Colleen Brogan and Zachary McCune, received a grant from AT&T and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University to complete an intermedia documentary on an innovative international subject which addressed a critical need in society.

Brogan and McCune proposed to create a multimedia documentary on Gaelic Games, unique sports only played in Ireland with fierce political and historical ties to the culture and heritage of Ireland. They interviewed athletes, club directors, coaches, and historians and produced new media content through Wordpress, Twitter, Vimeo, Youtube, all of which were pooled into the project's main site, http://www.heritageatplay.org.

In the age of the Olympics when sports are seen as a universal language traversing all cultural boundaries, the team was interested in a country that fiercely protected and maintained their historic games. But also, McCune and Brogan understood that traditional documentary filmmaking, in the age of the Internet and all it's possibilities, was archaic and limited. The idea of making a documentary about Gaelic Games was novel and innovative, but the dedication to update the old system of documentary filmmaking was the critical need in cultural production which the team aspired to address. McCune was the first to use "intermedia" to describe their project, explaining that the documentary did not just exist in the final 32-minute final film product, but in the entire process and transparency of the project from start to finish and beyond.

McCune and Brogan are thrilled by the final product and thankful for the support of the cultural institutions who helped to make it possible: they have also recognized that this "intermedia" style could be profitable and useful for many cultural institutions, both in evaluation and documentation of existing programs, and creating new long-distance content or educational programs specifically tailored to make use of multiple web platforms working in tandem.

The team is hopeful that a discussion of multiple-platform integration and intermedia usage in a cultural institution at the Museum and the Web 2011 conference will produce exciting future collaborations and opportunities to continue this type of work in partnership with institutions.

All of the Heritage at Play project is licensed Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution and the project is entirely dedicated to open source exchange and collaboration.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations IV

Site:

http://www.heritageatplay.org

Authors:

Colleen Brogan

Zachary McCune

Science LinX: the neXt level in augmenting science center Xperiences

Science LinX — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:14:25 +0000

MW2011

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Science LinX: the NeXt Level in Augmenting Science Center Xperiences

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Science communication

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teenagers

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user experience

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new media

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physical and virtual

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defining your target group

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In recognizing its societal role as a research university and in facing an (inter)national decline in science students, the University of Groningen developed a successful outreach program to attract teenagers to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), even doubling its student numbers in STEM.

Science LinX, the science center of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, plays a pivotal role, linking formal to informal learning. The major task of Science LinX is to inspire hard to get teenagers with often hard to communicate cutting-edge science.

In our strategy we’ve experienced the usefulness of the BètaMentality Model, which maps the attitudes towards science and technology of teenagers and distinguishes four basic groups (High Techs, Career Techs, Curious Generalists and Non Techs). Combined with the learning theory of Kolb and Brainstyles Model, it gives us a grip in linking our physical and virtual activities in tailor made programs to the specific needs of each group.

Science LinX offers science activities, exhibits, expos, serous games, demonstrations, workshops, debates, speed dates with role models, science café’s and competitions, constantly combining the virtual with the physical. Science centre and website are set up simultaneously and in accordance with one another. To connect to the RL (Real Life) and SL (Screen Life) of teenagers, we’ve blurred the walls of our science centre even further, by participating with an Arts & Science pavilion at the yearly Performing Arts Festival in the city.

Like other science centres and musea we aim at the most effective mix of media and blended learning, generating a better image of science and technology towards teenagers. Often referred to as the Net-generation or Generation-Z: with preference for tweets and sound bites, low attention span, but also 2nd nature talent for problem solving and collaborating, seemingly controlling the world at their fingertips. We deliver them different types of unexpected and exciting user-experiences, and challenge them to hang out, mess around en geek out with science in the different informal learning spaces of Science LinX, according to the categories of the Digital Youth Project.

In our newest AR (Augmented Reality) exhibit, virtual researchers of our faculty hang out with teenagers who play the AR game. Meeting scientists in new ways like this, telling the stories of science in short text message formats, without loosing the scientific value, are new and Xperimental ways for Science LinX to investigate the new possible ways of bringing the hard to communicate scientific subjects like nano-technology, closer to the daily lives of our visitors. We’ll present a number of these examples, directly connected to the varying types of teenagers.

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Paper - in formal session

Augmented Reality

Site:

http://www.rug.nl/sciencelinx

Authors:

Ingeborg Veldman

Tanja van der Woude

Bart van de Laar

Clearing the Path for Sisyphus: How Social Media is Changing Our Jobs and Our Working Relationships

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:43 +0000

Gates, J. (2010). Clearing the Path for Sisyphus: How Social Media is Changing Our Jobs and Our Working Relationships. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

Les Nouveaux Medias dans les Expositions de la CSI | New Medias in the CSI Exhibitions

jtrant — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:27:59 +0000

Botbol, D. (2003). Les Nouveaux Medias dans les Expositions de la CSI | New Medias in the CSI Exhibitions. (Perrot, Xavier (d. 2007), Ed.).International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting: Proceedings from ichim03.

A New Learning Environment The NeoMuseum/Children's Media Museum Prototype

jtrant — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:07:08 +0000

Gross, M., & Ueda N. (1991). A New Learning Environment The NeoMuseum/Children's Media Museum Prototype. Hypermedia & Interactivity in Museums, Proceedings of an International Conference.

Why and how, multimedia - the Japanese situation

jtrant — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:06:28 +0000

Mizushima, E. (1993). Why and how, multimedia - the Japanese situation. (Lees, Diane, Ed.).Museums and Interactive Multimedia: Selected papers from the second International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums.