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- 1. Teaching & Learning in Art Museums: Plugged In or Unplugged? Mike Murawski Director of Education & Public Programs, Portland Art Museum Founding Editor, ArtMuseumTeaching.com
- 3. something i’d like to ask you
- 4. When you visit museums, are you more like this ...
- 5. When you visit museums, are you more like this ... or this
- 6. Let’s start with a quick look at how PLUGGED IN our experience with art can be today
- 7. Our museum experience may still begin with an encounter with a work of art
- 8. an artwork that intrigues us, catches our attention, or makes us ask questions, like this installation by Maurizio Cattelan in the Lifelike exhibition.
- 9. Then our experience goes digital as we take cell phone photos and instantly begin to share
- 14. Outside of visiting a museum in person, we can access museums and their collections from any anywhere on any device with ease. Museums now go where you go.
- 19. Cleveland Art Museum, ArtLens& Gallery One project
- 20. How many of you are thinking more like this now? It’s OK. I won’t tell. (I might Tweet about it, though)
- 21. BUT WAIT, what about this?
- 22. In 2012, LACMA hosted a conversation between the museum’s director and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a program entitled How to Be Happy, Change the World, & Embrace a New Way to Be Human. “I need you to make me human, and you need me to make you human.” -Archbishop Tutu
- 23. Teaching and learning in art museums is about... Slowing down, looking closely, and seeing differently
- 24. Building community Collaborating Learning about each other
- 25. Teaching and learning in art museums is about... Digging down deep inside and pulling out our imagination & creativity. Making, moving, interacting, and feeling.
- 26. And while it brings us in connection to artists & objects...
- 27. It is also about making them our own, learning about ourselves, our society, our identity and who we are as human beings.
- 28. And these things can all happen without technology.
- 29. If your museum lost power, would you still be able to provide these core, human- centered experiences?
- 30. Where does this leave us? Plugged in? Unplugged? Is there some balance? Can technology support human-centered experiences?
- 31. a possible example... 3D Image Capture & Printing
- 32. 3D image capture in the galleries using iPhones and mobile devices
- 33. 3D printing at the Walters Art Museum
- 34. 3D Hackathon at the Met has users manipulating objects to create composites.
- 35. This is obviously very plugged in, yet is also ... • Collaborative, team-based • Object-centered – involves slow, kinesthetic, close looking • Brings in a very strong component of making/creating • BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) – less dependent on museum tech • Tactile product – total visitor ownership (make it their own)
- 36. Where does this leave us? How do we strike a balance?
- 37. maybe we end up somewhere like this... ; )
Editor's Notes
- Last year, LACMA hosted a conversation between the Museum’s Director and Archbishop Desmond Tutu; a program entitled How to Be Happy, Change the World, & Embrace a New Way to Be Human. First, of all, it is simply amazing and worth noting that this type of dialogue would occur at an art museum, and I think we all know for good reason. The conversation centered on spiritual paths to being more human, and connecting with the world and others in meaningful ways that bring about profound world change, like ending apartheid. Archbishop Tutu stressed the importance of listening, and making decisions to connect with others in human interactions each and every day. And he made a rather profound statement. He said:“I need you to make me human, and you need me to make you human.”