How can hacker cultures help cultural heritage organizations move from creation to consumption in order to empower marginalized and non-traditional communities?

1. HACKING
the <gallery>
moving GLAMs from consumption to creation
kat braybrooke | curation design lead | mozilla

2. 2
Article quote: Museums and me: Junction's
top tips for engaging young people,
Guardian UK. Image: Guerilla Girls
as we know, GLAMs continue to have
trouble engaging non-traditional
audiences in a meaningful way…

3. what if galleries looked less like this…
Photos: J-No, Tamara Craiu

4. and more like this?
DRAFTSMEN'S CONGRESS
7TH BERLIN BIENNALE

5. DRAFTSMEN'S CONGRESS
7TH BERLIN BIENNALE
and this…

6. 6DRAFTSMEN'S CONGRESS
7TH BERLIN BIENNALE
and this?

7. and what if
museums
looked
less like
this…
https://guerillagirls.com
GUERRILLA GIRLS

8. 8
and more like this?
Summer Quest Maker Party
Hive Learning Networks, NYC
http://hivelearningnetworks.org

9. 9
and this…
Mozilla Festival 2013, London
http://mozillafestival.org
Photo: Soumya Deb

10. 10
and this?
Tate Digital Collectives
“We Are All Artists” | “Cutty Lingo”
http://collectives.tate.org.uk

11. 11
what if GLAMS moved from
consumption
to creation?
GLAM: Acronym for cultural
heritage organizations. Gallery,
Library, Archive and Museum.

12. *first, a bit about me!

13. http://shehackers.kaibray.com/
from researching
hackers…

14. http://design.okfn.org
to working and learning
with them…

15. to making the web with mozilla!
webmaker: tools, curriculum and communities
dedicated to teaching web mechanics and citizenship.

16. 16
what binds all this work together?
learning
through making.

17. "One of the things the
Internet has given us is a
complete abundance of
knowledge, expertise
and social connectivity...
so the question is, how can
we use the capacity of these
networks to bring people
together who want to
learn together?"
MIMI ITO, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
CONNECTEDLEARNING.TV

18. “a hacker is someone who explores
the limits of what is possible, in a
spirit of playful cleverness.”
RICHARD STALLMAN, HACKER AND ACTIVIST
Free Software Foundation and GNU Project founder
Photo: Jared and Corin

19. 19
“an artist is someone who explores the
limits of skill and creative imagination
to produce aesthetic objects.”
Definition: Merriam Websters dictionary
Photo: Hive Learning Networks, NYC Maker Party

20. 20
hacker = artist?
artist = hacker?
gallery = hackerspace?
hackerspace = gallery?

21. OHANDA.ORG
FABLABNETWORK.ORG
WEBMAKER.ORG
learning through making
in digital communities

22. “REMIX”, LAWRENCE LESSIG
http://remix.lessig.org
“ I strongly suggest we transcend RO (read
only) cultures and instead set precedents for
the legality of RW (read write) cultures.”

23. 23The People’s Platform,
ASTRA TAYLOR
“we need new social and cultural
protocols for a networked age.”

24. cultural heritage organizations are starting
to use some of these creation and remix
methods to empower new audiences…
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Photo: Jan Tito, Flickr

25. by learning through making
in the gallery…

26. Images thanks to TATE Digital Studio, gif of “Miss
Cicely Alexander” portrait by James Abbott Mcneill
Whistler by Gif My Ass
1840s GIF party
at the TATE

27. and a curriculum pack
that shares cultural
heritage remix activities
with new audiences.

28. 28
in the library…
and learning through making

29. Vancouver Public
Library’s
Inspiration Lab:
an experiment in
“libraries 3.0”

30. 30Image of a pop-up Maker Party thanks
to Hive Learning Networks Flickr.
And a Hive Learning
Networks Pop-Up at
the VPL this October…

31. 31
and learning through making
in the museum!

32. from this SF
MOMA site…
Original SF MOMA website

33. to this!
Culturejammed version by
digital artist MAX CAPACITY

34. 34
let’s use anthropology
back to the galleries…
to bring nontraditional audiences

35. but first, it’s time to flex your
hacking powers and curate
The Royal BC Museum …
royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
goggles.webmaker.org

36. let’s go to goggles.webmaker.org and get making!

37. 37
replace the featured images with your own
and think about your audience - what’s their culture?
a good openly licensed
image repository:
http://flickr.com/
thecommons

38. 38
to pick an image, click on “View All Sizes”
right-click on a size, and toggle “Copy Image Location.”

39. 39
go back to the BC Museum xray goggles page…
and replace a BC Museum image w/your own.

40. BC Museum homepage status: hacked!

41. join me at mozfest
in london this october!
proposals due 22 August:
MozfestArtOfTheWeb.tumblr.com
inspired?