hacking the gallery: moving glams from consumption to creation
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How can hacker cultures help cultural heritage organizations move from creation to consumption in order to empower marginalized and non-traditional communities?TRANSCRIPT
HACKING the <gallery>
moving GLAMs from consumption to creation
kat braybrooke | curation design lead | mozilla
2Article 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…
what if galleries looked less like this…
Photos: J-No, Tamara Craiu
and more like this?
DRAFTSMEN'S CONGRESS 7TH BERLIN BIENNALE
DRAFTSMEN'S CONGRESS 7TH BERLIN BIENNALE
and this…
6DRAFTSMEN'S CONGRESS 7TH BERLIN BIENNALE
and this?
and what if museums
looked less like
this…
https://guerillagirls.com GUERRILLA GIRLS
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and more like this?
Summer Quest Maker Party Hive Learning Networks, NYC
http://hivelearningnetworks.org
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and this…
Mozilla Festival 2013, London http://mozillafestival.org
Photo: Soumya Deb
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and this?
Tate Digital Collectives “We Are All Artists” | “Cutty Lingo”
http://collectives.tate.org.uk
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what if GLAMS moved from
consumption
to creation?GLAM: Acronym for cultural
heritage organizations. Gallery, Library, Archive and Museum.
*first, a bit about me!
http://shehackers.kaibray.com/
from researching
hackers…
http://design.okfn.org
to working and learning
with them…
to making the web with mozilla!
webmaker: tools, curriculum and communities dedicated to teaching web mechanics and citizenship.
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what binds all this work together?
learning
through making.
"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
“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
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“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
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hacker = artist? artist = hacker?
gallery = hackerspace? hackerspace = gallery?
OHANDA.ORG FABLABNETWORK.ORG
WEBMAKER.ORG
learning through making in digital communities
“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.”
23The People’s Platform, ASTRA TAYLOR
“we need new social and cultural protocols for a networked age.”
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
by learning through making
in the gallery…
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
and a curriculum pack that shares cultural
heritage remix activities with new audiences.
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in the library…
and learning through making
Vancouver Public Library’s
Inspiration Lab: an experiment in
“libraries 3.0”
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…
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and learning through making
in the museum!
from this SF MOMA site…
Original SF MOMA website
to this!
Culturejammed version by digital artist MAX CAPACITY
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let’s use anthropology
back to the galleries…
to bring nontraditional audiences
but first, it’s time to flex your hacking powers and curate
The Royal BC Museum …
royalbcmuseum.bc.ca goggles.webmaker.org
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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
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to pick an image, click on “View All Sizes”
right-click on a size, and toggle “Copy Image Location.”
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go back to the BC Museum xray goggles page…
and replace a BC Museum image w/your own.
BC Museum homepage status: hacked!
join me at mozfest in london this october!
proposals due 22 August: MozfestArtOfTheWeb.tumblr.com
inspired?