MW2011: L. Tallon + I. Froes, Going Mobile? Insights into the museum communit...museums and the web
If the future is mobile, how is the museum community experiencing that future, what are their ambitions within it, and in which areas is further knowledge share required? It was specifically to gain an insight into questions such as these that the 2010 International Museums and Mobile survey was developed. This paper will present and analyse the responses of the 600+ museum professionals that participated in this research.
The 2010 International Museums and Mobile Survey reached out to museum professionals internationally to share their perspectives and understanding of mobile interpretation at their institutions. Dividing respondents into four categories – those from institutions that already used mobile interpretation, those from institutions that were planning to use mobile interpretation tools, those from institutions that had no plans to use mobile interpretation tools, and those from vendors working in this field – the survey sought to gain an insight into the everyday realities of developing, delivering and sustaining mobile interpretation provisions in an institution. The survey questions related to the objectives of, and target audience for, an institution’s mobile interpretation experience; the challenges faced by institutions in planning and operating a mobile interpretation experience; and what strategies were used to measure the success of these experiences. Other questions probed the aspects of mobile interpretation in which individuals felt there were insufficient knowledge share, and also about what excited them most in this field.
Over 600 museum professionals responded to the survey, sharing their views on the above questions. Responses were received from individuals working in institutions with a wide variety of backgrounds and profiles: institutions in over twenty countries are represented in the results; two thirds of all responses were from institutions that did not use mobile interpretation tools, and of which half were planning to in the twelve months, and half had no such plans. Whilst a quarter of responses came from within institutions that boast an annual attendance upwards of 250,000 visitors, more than half had annual attendance of under 50,000 visitors (and less than 1 staff member working in digital media).
Drawing on this data source, this Paper will draw out the key trends that arise, and forward analysis on their context and implications for the community. It will explore opinions on issues ranging from whether mobile interpretation should be available at an additional cost to visitors, to how to define the target audience for a mobile interpretation tool (i.e. is it just “those that like audio guides”?). And from whether in five years time museums will still be required to provide a hardware platform to visitors for the mobile experience, to the obstacles those entering the field are facing today. Through this analysis, this paper aims to provide guidance to those museums entering this field for the first time, create awareness of those areas where further knowledge share is required (and hopefully identify those institutions best placed to provide such knowledge), and ultimately provide a valuable tool on which to further inform debates in this field.
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2011 (MW2011).
738 museum voices on the objectives, challenges & future of mobile interpretation.
The following report presents the headline findings from the Museums & Mobile 2011 annual survey, a collaborative research project run by Pocket-Proof and LearningTimes.
Now in its second year, the objectives of Museums & Mobile 2011 annual survey were built on those of the previous year, namely to develop knowledge share on:
1) the objectives of Institutions’ use of mobile interpretation tools,
2) the challenges and perceived challenges in developing and delivering a mobile interpretation tool in an Institution,
3) the functionalities envisioned as important to the medium’s future in Institutions, and
4) those aspects of mobile interpretation on which further knowledge share is most desired by the community.
For more information about the Museum & Mobile surveys see http://www.museums-mobile.org/survey
Is it working? Analysing the effectiveness of mobile in museumsLoic Tallon
Presentation delivered @ the AAM Annual Conference 2013 in session entitled "Is it working?: evaluating the success of mobile apps" with Matthew Fisher, Nancy Proctor & Matthew Petrie.
See Matthew Fisher's presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/nightkitcheninteractive/is-it-working
All icons used in the presentation are from The Noun Project and are Public Domain or CC0. The following icons are attributed under the CCBY license:
Museum by Joris Hoogendoorn
Camera by Stanislav Levin
Survey Connie Shu
Speech Bubble Convoy Interactive
Social Media by Joris hoogendoorn
Happy, Neutral, Sad & Shocked by Austin Condiff
Newspaper by John Caserta
Earth by Francesco Paleari
Person by Paulo Sá Ferreira - Purple Matter
Money by Luis Prado
Code by Brennan Novak
Speaker by Harold Kim
Film by Björn Wisnewski
Database by Anton Outkine
Bullet by Brent Maxwell
Cliff Warning by Luis Prado
Computer by Alyssa Mahlberg
551 museum colleagues share their experience and perspectives on the objectives, challenges, life-cycle and implementation of mobile projects at their cultural institution.
Museums & Mobile in 2012 : Survey ResultsLoic Tallon
An analysis of the main findings from the 2012 Museums & Mobile Survey.
Learn about the museum community's perspective on the objectives, challenges & future for mobile projects in cultural institutions in 2012.
MW2011: L. Tallon + I. Froes, Going Mobile? Insights into the museum communit...museums and the web
If the future is mobile, how is the museum community experiencing that future, what are their ambitions within it, and in which areas is further knowledge share required? It was specifically to gain an insight into questions such as these that the 2010 International Museums and Mobile survey was developed. This paper will present and analyse the responses of the 600+ museum professionals that participated in this research.
The 2010 International Museums and Mobile Survey reached out to museum professionals internationally to share their perspectives and understanding of mobile interpretation at their institutions. Dividing respondents into four categories – those from institutions that already used mobile interpretation, those from institutions that were planning to use mobile interpretation tools, those from institutions that had no plans to use mobile interpretation tools, and those from vendors working in this field – the survey sought to gain an insight into the everyday realities of developing, delivering and sustaining mobile interpretation provisions in an institution. The survey questions related to the objectives of, and target audience for, an institution’s mobile interpretation experience; the challenges faced by institutions in planning and operating a mobile interpretation experience; and what strategies were used to measure the success of these experiences. Other questions probed the aspects of mobile interpretation in which individuals felt there were insufficient knowledge share, and also about what excited them most in this field.
Over 600 museum professionals responded to the survey, sharing their views on the above questions. Responses were received from individuals working in institutions with a wide variety of backgrounds and profiles: institutions in over twenty countries are represented in the results; two thirds of all responses were from institutions that did not use mobile interpretation tools, and of which half were planning to in the twelve months, and half had no such plans. Whilst a quarter of responses came from within institutions that boast an annual attendance upwards of 250,000 visitors, more than half had annual attendance of under 50,000 visitors (and less than 1 staff member working in digital media).
Drawing on this data source, this Paper will draw out the key trends that arise, and forward analysis on their context and implications for the community. It will explore opinions on issues ranging from whether mobile interpretation should be available at an additional cost to visitors, to how to define the target audience for a mobile interpretation tool (i.e. is it just “those that like audio guides”?). And from whether in five years time museums will still be required to provide a hardware platform to visitors for the mobile experience, to the obstacles those entering the field are facing today. Through this analysis, this paper aims to provide guidance to those museums entering this field for the first time, create awareness of those areas where further knowledge share is required (and hopefully identify those institutions best placed to provide such knowledge), and ultimately provide a valuable tool on which to further inform debates in this field.
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2011 (MW2011).
738 museum voices on the objectives, challenges & future of mobile interpretation.
The following report presents the headline findings from the Museums & Mobile 2011 annual survey, a collaborative research project run by Pocket-Proof and LearningTimes.
Now in its second year, the objectives of Museums & Mobile 2011 annual survey were built on those of the previous year, namely to develop knowledge share on:
1) the objectives of Institutions’ use of mobile interpretation tools,
2) the challenges and perceived challenges in developing and delivering a mobile interpretation tool in an Institution,
3) the functionalities envisioned as important to the medium’s future in Institutions, and
4) those aspects of mobile interpretation on which further knowledge share is most desired by the community.
For more information about the Museum & Mobile surveys see http://www.museums-mobile.org/survey
Is it working? Analysing the effectiveness of mobile in museumsLoic Tallon
Presentation delivered @ the AAM Annual Conference 2013 in session entitled "Is it working?: evaluating the success of mobile apps" with Matthew Fisher, Nancy Proctor & Matthew Petrie.
See Matthew Fisher's presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/nightkitcheninteractive/is-it-working
All icons used in the presentation are from The Noun Project and are Public Domain or CC0. The following icons are attributed under the CCBY license:
Museum by Joris Hoogendoorn
Camera by Stanislav Levin
Survey Connie Shu
Speech Bubble Convoy Interactive
Social Media by Joris hoogendoorn
Happy, Neutral, Sad & Shocked by Austin Condiff
Newspaper by John Caserta
Earth by Francesco Paleari
Person by Paulo Sá Ferreira - Purple Matter
Money by Luis Prado
Code by Brennan Novak
Speaker by Harold Kim
Film by Björn Wisnewski
Database by Anton Outkine
Bullet by Brent Maxwell
Cliff Warning by Luis Prado
Computer by Alyssa Mahlberg
551 museum colleagues share their experience and perspectives on the objectives, challenges, life-cycle and implementation of mobile projects at their cultural institution.
Museums & Mobile in 2012 : Survey ResultsLoic Tallon
An analysis of the main findings from the 2012 Museums & Mobile Survey.
Learn about the museum community's perspective on the objectives, challenges & future for mobile projects in cultural institutions in 2012.
(Kun engelsk version, 2012)
Lecture given at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London in 2012 on the past, present and future of the royal cast collection based on the theory of performativity studies (J. L. Austin, J. Derrida, J. Butler). The lecture traces the history of a collection once considered a good, even necessecary performance in the eighteenth century, turning into an unwanted one during the twentieth century. In the presentation a future for the collection as a place for remembering that we forget, repress and want to get rid in history and memory, and as an experimential place for performing the loss and possible futures of sculpture and history, by focussing on co-creation and participatory projects for museums, is proposed.
(Kun dansk version, 2013)
Filosoffen G.W.F. Hegels filosofi og æstetik ligger til grund for vores historieopfattelse og for opfattelsen af, at essensen af en historisk epokes ånd eller idegrundlag, kan findes i kunstværker. Hegels filosofi er udgangspunktet for en gennemgang af museernes, skulpturens og afstøbningernes historie. Begreber som ”fremmedgørelse” og ”forrevethed” spiller en væsentlig rolle i analysen.
(Kun dansk version, 2013)
Psykoanalytikeren og filosoffen Slavoj Žižeks film ”The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema” (Del 1), bruges som udgangspunkt for en analyse af Statens Museum for Kunst og kunstmuseer generelt. Pointen er, at begær indlæres udefra og at det er at kunsten, der lærer os, hvad begær er.
(Kun dansk version, 2013)
Den franske filosof, historiker og kritiker, Michel Foucaults bog ”Viljen til viden. Seksualitetens historie 1” danner baggrund for en analyse af skulpturerne i afstøbningssamlingen. Midt i den mest snerpede periode, vestlig historie har kendt, Victoriatiden, bliver der stillet hen ved 2000 nøgne figurer op på Statens Museum for Kunst (1896). Følger vi Foucaults analyse af seksualitetens historie sker det på et tidspunkt, hvor seksuallivet tages helt ud af hænderne på den frie lyst, til at være en sag udelukkende for videnskaberne, for analysen og for regulering af det normale. De nøgne figurer er den ultimative prøve for publikum: kan de tøjle deres lyst og kun tale om smag, stil og kunsthistorie i stedet for at tale om… ”pik og patter”?
(Kun engelsk version, 2012)
Lecture given at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London in 2012 on the past, present and future of the royal cast collection based on the theory of performativity studies (J. L. Austin, J. Derrida, J. Butler). The lecture traces the history of a collection once considered a good, even necessecary performance in the eighteenth century, turning into an unwanted one during the twentieth century. In the presentation a future for the collection as a place for remembering that we forget, repress and want to get rid in history and memory, and as an experimential place for performing the loss and possible futures of sculpture and history, by focussing on co-creation and participatory projects for museums, is proposed.
(Kun dansk version, 2013)
Filosoffen G.W.F. Hegels filosofi og æstetik ligger til grund for vores historieopfattelse og for opfattelsen af, at essensen af en historisk epokes ånd eller idegrundlag, kan findes i kunstværker. Hegels filosofi er udgangspunktet for en gennemgang af museernes, skulpturens og afstøbningernes historie. Begreber som ”fremmedgørelse” og ”forrevethed” spiller en væsentlig rolle i analysen.
(Kun dansk version, 2013)
Psykoanalytikeren og filosoffen Slavoj Žižeks film ”The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema” (Del 1), bruges som udgangspunkt for en analyse af Statens Museum for Kunst og kunstmuseer generelt. Pointen er, at begær indlæres udefra og at det er at kunsten, der lærer os, hvad begær er.
(Kun dansk version, 2013)
Den franske filosof, historiker og kritiker, Michel Foucaults bog ”Viljen til viden. Seksualitetens historie 1” danner baggrund for en analyse af skulpturerne i afstøbningssamlingen. Midt i den mest snerpede periode, vestlig historie har kendt, Victoriatiden, bliver der stillet hen ved 2000 nøgne figurer op på Statens Museum for Kunst (1896). Følger vi Foucaults analyse af seksualitetens historie sker det på et tidspunkt, hvor seksuallivet tages helt ud af hænderne på den frie lyst, til at være en sag udelukkende for videnskaberne, for analysen og for regulering af det normale. De nøgne figurer er den ultimative prøve for publikum: kan de tøjle deres lyst og kun tale om smag, stil og kunsthistorie i stedet for at tale om… ”pik og patter”?