Museum as Platform; Curator as Champion

Museum as Platform; Curator as Champion Nancy Proctor, Smithsonian American Art Museum [email_address] 7 November 2009 Learning to sing in the age of social media

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

Dr Ralph Stanley: Curator of the Song http://drshow.org http://drralphstanley.com Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

Are museums a fad? Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

What is the Museum … in this Web 2.0 world of information on demand? Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu
From presentation to performance
From permanent to temporary
From knowledge to events

The American Art Museum Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

The Museums… Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

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 Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

The Museum has become a Distributed Network Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

The Museum is transforming from Acropolis… Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

… into Agora Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

In & Out Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu – Curator David Allison, Chair of Information Technology & Communication, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution 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

Your museum is social media Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

Tate Britain, 2007: How We Are: Photographing Britain

Brooklyn Museum, 2008: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2009: Fill the Gap! Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

Milwaukee Art Museum, 2009: American Furniture, Googled Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

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
Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

Who is a curator? http://smithsonian20.si.edu/schedule_webcast2.html Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

Powerhouse Museum: original online record, incomplete Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

Powerhouse Museum: 1 week later… http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=248651 Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

“ 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.

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

Nancy Proctor, [email_address] 9 December 2008
Inspire us with their passion;
Identify, research & preserve our cultural treasures…
And make them relevant to our lives;
In the Agora, we need curators who:

Nancy Proctor, [email_address] 9 December 2008
Help us see, read & think critically;
Curate the conversation;
Take us from “ we do the talking” to “we help you do the talking”.
In the Agora, we need curators who:

Lining the song Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu

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