I was recently invited over to Amos Rex, Helsinki to speak at the Museum Theme Days conference about digital participation. It was great couple of days with some really interesting peers working in Finland. I thought I’d share some incomplete, sloppily captioned and edited slides from the lecture I gave which explore how and why…
Tag: museum education
hARTckathon: a hack to open up contemporary art for your visitors
How do you make the difficult subject of contemporary art accessible for people who have never encountered it before? This question keeps many museum educators, curators and editors awake at night and is somewhat a holy grail in gallery interpretation. Last week I was in Vilnius, Lithuania for a hackathon which posed the challenge of…