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How Can we Make Indymore Globally Relevant?

(and exercise some technical savvy)

Indy Talks at the Central Library

Richard McCoyIMA Associate Conservator of Objects &

Variable Art

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Indy is only as small as wemake it.

So, how do people learn about

Indy?Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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And how are they going to findout about Indy tomorrow?

From the Internets, of course!

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One project, one person canchange our cultural landscape.

Fall 2009 IUPUIMuseum Studies

Class

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20 IUPUI students made 40Wikipedia articles, started the

IUPUI Public Art Collection, and

launched WSPA

The Results?

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Search IUPUI Public Art ….

The IUPUI Public Art Collectionexists because we made it.

Yes, there is nowan IUPUI PublicArt Collection

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What Collection Could We MakeNext?

Categorize all of the ArtInside the Statehouse?

Categorize all of the ArtOutside State House?

Do you know who

this guy is?Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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Categorize all of the Art insideIm ortant Indiana olis Churches

Are these Tif any Stained GlassWindows?

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Locate and accurately describe allof the monuments in the city

How many do you know? Who

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We now have the tools to identify,locate, photograph, and describe

everything in the city basically for free.

We can accurately catalog everypublic artwork in the city right

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But, really whyshould you do it?

“So often outdoor sculpturesare not appropriately labeledand the significance of the

work is lost. With Wikipediaas a platform, the storiesbehind the art can be sharedwith a wide audience. Thepublic will begin to care more

about sculpture in theircommunity, and beyond.”

--IUPUI Graduate Student,

Lori Byrd Phillips

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And because there’s now a lot of public art in Indy, and going to

be more tomorrow.

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By putting information about

art in Wikipedia you arechanging the way information

is created and shared.

Wikipedia is

Participatory&Democratic

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But how do we make it super cool?

Geo Tag Everything!Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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Upload and Locate images inFlickr, and Panoramio

What?

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If you geo locate public

artwork, you give it a uniqueplace in the world.

We areabouthere:38.7789

2386.156853

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This is super important inWiki edia

Look

A GPS Location Pullstogether tons andtons of info, and is

filled with potential.Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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GPS is becoming more importantwith mobile applications

Put art in themainstream

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Did you hear any of that?Special thanks to:

IMA

IUPUI Museum Studies Department Jennifer Geigel Mikulay (IUPUI Faculty)

Lori Byrd Phillips (Wikipedia Wiz)

Sarah Stierch (Gowalla Wiz)

Mike Mikulay (Made the WSPA Logo)

Katie Chattin (Spreaden’ the word at IUPUI)

Want more info? Google:Wikipedia Saves Public Art

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