setting art free @ statens museum for kunst
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SETTING ART FREE@ Statens Museum for Kunst
Europeana Creative Culture Jam9-10 July 2015
Österreichische NationalbibliothäkVienna
Merete SanderhoffCurator of digital museum practice
Statens Museum for Kunst@MSanderhoff
2012-14From pilot to policy
SMK offers 25,000 images in the Public Domain
for free download
…for learning, playing, building upon, remixing,
sharing, innovating…
Let’s celebrate!
Monthly evening eventYoung urban audienceArt in focus Unexpected approaches
Design challenge13 artists and designers
Variety of remix submissions
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The artists got to change our museum for a weekend
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Their remixes ranged from lasercut installations…
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…to tapestries, fashion clothes, ceramics…
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…to a pop-up version of a paintingwith motorized moving light
Welcome to SMK FridaySet Art Free!
29 May 2015
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Mix it up! Remix exhibitionCulture Cam installationVanGoYourself workshop
Wiki edit-a-thonAnimated GIF workshop
PerformancesFilm screenings
Artist talksArt DJ’s
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More than 6,000 people joined the party
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Wiki edit-a-thonwith the Hirschsprung Collection
Contribute your knowledge to Wikipedia
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Initiating working relations with Danish Wikipedians, art historians and interested amateurs
Key reason for our public domain policy- we want our collections to enrich Wikipedia articles
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Animated GIF workshop
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20 people created GIF’sfacilitated by Aalto Arts
See the results athttp://publicdomaingifs.tumblr.com/
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We VanGo’d ourselvesusing SMK public domain art
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We explored Europeana using Culture Cam
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Developed by Spild Af Tidas part of Europeana Creative
Kids of all ages intuitively took up
the Culture Cam
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A special feature for SMK Friday- digital ‘le cadavre exquis’
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Some of the remixesfrom Mix it up!
Harald Slott-Møller, Danish landscape, 1891
Product of Public Domain
Filip Vest, 22 Skies
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Bodil Manz, Letter Rack 1671 & Bulletin Board 2015
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Jamie Seaboch, Collage
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Kati Hyyppä, As light goes by
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Artists talks- communicating the remixes
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Huge interest from the audience- really brought people into the galleries
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A unique opportunity for upcoming artists
Feedback from the artistsparticipating in Mix it up!
Collected in colaboration with Sanna Marttila, Aalto Artsand Europeana Creative
(we also got feedback from the audience)
What did it add to your work to be displayed next to the original
during the exhibition?
“It was very important to have the visual and conceptual bridge between the two artworks, as it established a historical link. The two artworks sort of became one new artwork together as the commentary between them went both ways, talking about our understanding of our society and our understanding of previous societies.”
“I was already familiar with working with open collections, as I have been doing this in one way or another during the past 5+ years (first as an interaction designer/researcher, later as an artist/maker). What was special about the Mix it up! exhibition was the great opportunity to show the remixes next to the original works and to be really inside a big, fantastic museum.”
What were you aiming to show through your creative remix?
“That a piece of artwork is never complete.”
“On one hand I like to show that electronics can be used for creative purposes, and on the other hand I like to highlight interesting aspects of old artworks, drawing more attention to them.”
What does it mean to you that some museums release digital
versions of public domain artworks?
“I have been creating collages using international museum collections from 20-25 years. I have hundreds of collages using international artworks that I have been only able to share with my friends and family, knowing that if I were to present publicly I would face legal retribution. Now, due to the recent leaders of forward thinking institutions I am, for the first time, allowed to share my perspective using their selected works.I value it highly. It adds a new layer to the originals artworks. If something is in the public domain, it should be within everyone's reach – to reuse or just to see it. If it is released by the museum where the original artwork is displayed, one can be sure it actually is as close to the original as possible.”
Raising awareness ofpublic domain collections
for creative re-use
5 out of 9 responding to the survey were familiar with open collections before. 4 out of 9 had used CC licenses before for their own work. 8 out of 9 are planning to continue working with open art.
”It is a giant toolbox with a fantastic amount of materials to work with.”
Collage by Jamie Seaboch, CC BY-SA 4.0
Planning to do creative interventions
in our collections on a yearly basis
The remixing continues
The bigger pictureof setting art free
Bildungsinstitutionenin the 21st century
http://openglam.org/
Bildung ~ Building
”Our role is still more to facilitate public use of cultural heritage for learning, creativity, and innovation. Today, learning happens in reciprocity. We are all a part of the web. We shape each other.”
Mikkel Bogh Director, SMK
http://bit.ly/1dMX0BJ
www.sharingiscaring.smk
THANK YOU.
smk.dk/setartfree
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Merete SanderhoffCurator of digital museum practice
Statens Museum for Kunst@MSanderhoff