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"Museum as Platform; Curator as Champion: Learning to sing in the age of social media," a presentation by Nancy Proctor at the conference, "Event Culture: The Museum and Its Staging of Contemporary Art" organized by the Copenhagen Doctoral School of Cultural Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 7 November 2009. Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States
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Museum as Platform; Curator as Champion
Nancy Proctor, Smithsonian American Art Museum
[email protected] 7 November 2009
Learning to sing in the age of social media
7 November 2009
Event Culture:
The Museum and Its Staging of Contemporary Art
Copenhagen Doctoral School
of Cultural Studies
Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
7 November 2009
Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0
United States
7 November 2009
Dr Ralph Stanley: Curator of the Song
http://drshow.org http://drralphstanley.comNancy Proctor, [email protected] 3
7 November 2009
What is the Museum…in this Web 2.0 world of information on demand?
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• From presentation to performance
• From permanent to temporary
• From knowledge to events
7 November 2009
Photo by Mike Lee, 2007; from SAAM Flickr Group
Our audiences now access American Art through a wide range of platforms
beyond the museum’s walls and website
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7 November 2009
In & Out
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Out In
Stability/stodginess Change
Curators as experts Curators as collaborators & brokers
Monographs Stories
Control Collaboration
Web 1.0 Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0
– Curator David Allison, Chair of Information Technology & Communication, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
7 November 2009
Tate Britain, 2007: How We Are: Photographing Britain
7 November 2009
Brooklyn Museum, 2008: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition
7 November 2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2009: Fill the Gap!
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7 November 2009
Milwaukee Art Museum, 2009: American Furniture, Googled
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7 November 2009
Torrance Art Museum, 2009: On Gonzo Curating
To engage others, to become more collaborative and interactive with outside curators and professionals worldwide, to see our programming develop more hand-in-hand with a global enquiry and with curators in different contexts with different aims and agendas, alongside fulfilling our obligation to visually and intellectually engage a myriad of different types of visitor….
http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/gonzocurating.php
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7 November 2009
Who is a curator?
http://smithsonian20.si.edu/schedule_webcast2.htmlNancy Proctor, [email protected] 19
7 November 2009
Powerhouse Museum: original online record, incomplete
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7 November 2009
Powerhouse Museum: 1 week later…
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=248651Nancy Proctor, [email protected] 21
7 November 2009
“Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.”
For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases. Many of these models will rely on amateurs as researchers and writers. Many of these models will rely on sponsorship or grants or endowments instead of revenues. Many of these models will rely on excitable 14-year-olds distributing the results. Many of these models will fail. No one experiment is going to replace what we are now losing with the demise of news on paper, but over time, the collection of new experiments that do work might give us the journalism we need.
– Clay Shirky, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable,” 2009.
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7 November 2009
And we need curation– but who is a curator?
While scholars and museum visitors contribute to the enrichment of curatorial practice through a social media dialogue, I do not share the view that using social media makes everyone a curator. Curators are the most trusted art experts, whose aggregated knowledge, critical thinking abilities, and aesthetic observations define the meaning and value of art.
– Neal Stimler, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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7 November 2009Nancy Proctor, [email protected] 9 December 2008
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• Inspire us with their passion;Inspire us with their passion;
• Identify, research & preserve our Identify, research & preserve our cultural treasures…cultural treasures…
• And make them relevant to our And make them relevant to our lives;lives;
In the Agora, we need curators who:
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• Help us see, read & think critically;Help us see, read & think critically;
• Curate the conversation;Curate the conversation;
• Take us from “Take us from “we we do the talking” do the talking” to “we help to “we help you you do the talking”.do the talking”.
In the Agora, we need curators who: