A quick (and far from comprehensive) round-up from Pin+Present, Day 1 with the Met MediaLab.
TWO OR MORE:
Started by considering audiences who might be collaborating:
- Visitors who feel welcome
- Visitors lack of perceived (cultural) literacy
- Admin / museum staff
- Folks with lack of financial means
- News media
- People physically unable to visit (consider how to give people agency)
- Artists
- International communities
SMALL FRY:
- Challenges – galleries not connected, items static, scale/height, intimidation factor, can’t touch!
- Win for museum – hands-on relevant experiences, draw visitors to less crowded areas, use augmented reality to overcome don’t touch factor
- Win for kids – touch!, make it feel like a video game, eye height content, allow/invite to replicate or create content
- Ideas:
- Bite-sized exhibits: class of kids, get to make their own art, which gets saved and presented in museum/online
- Met unlocked: kids unlock keys to info
- I like yellow: app that brings up suggested content
ON THE GO:
- Disconnect between 400k items but never see anything shared on Facebook
- On the go is a curation method to get people sharing
- Metsagram- personalized idea of perusing the collection, different filters
- Cultivating Youth – creative development project; narrative challenges for nyc high schools; graphic novels and animation, tumblr
- Curate Times Square – utilize online collection, user gets to place the artwork on the screens of Times Square; still only local to visitors of Times Square – solution, AR posters around NYC, accessible with Met app
Game for kids – What it’s like to be a curator – different categories (time, location), challenge – title the curation, vote for favorite
HI-FI/LO-FI:
- Choose your own adventure – incl. analytics from part experience, targeted discovery
- Targeted art
- Theatrical tours – make it fun and accessible for everyone
- Extending the met (bus stops, puzzles) – artworks in ad space
- Met challenge of the day – trivia related to an exhibition
- Live stream walk through or podcast
- Theme nights – dress up! – specific to certain galleries
- Chrome extension – replace photos – all ads become met artworks
- Allow the art to pop up when you’re searching for something else online – work with analytics to feed ppl info where they are
- Pedometer in museum – take it home and use it for a remembered tour, gives you and artwork record of where you’ve been