Practice Meets Theory: Some Questions
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Practice Meets Theory: Some Questions
Peter SamisAssociate Curator,Interpretive MediaSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museums & the Web 2012 San Diego, CA April 13, 2012
Jochen Gerz, The Gift (detail)
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What does it mean to be a Curator of Interpretive Media?
What does it mean to be a Curator of Interpretive Media?
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Homogeneous containers / heterogeneous realities
Museums.
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Each artwork is like a foreign language, an undiscovered text.
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We exercise a Dual Empathy:
• Identify with artists by re-creating their past contexts, concerns, and criteria for success
• Identify with visitors and build bridges to their lives and understandings today
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We build tools to plumb these texts, and their worlds…
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We experiment with time and place of delivery…
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SFMOMA 2001
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Google 2012]
[MIT 2000
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We evaluate whether the tools help open up the artist’s world.
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We use new media as a tool to rectify gender imbalance.
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We ask what these artworks mean to our visitors.
“Objecthood doesn’t have a place in the world if there’s not an individual person making use of that object.”
–Olafur Eliasson
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And we ask the question:What theory provides insights into—or a framework for—community responses to the art we present?
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“You Are Here” contributory drawing activity in the California Portraits gallery at the Oakland Museum of CA
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“the smartest person in the room is no longer a person but the room itself.
“this also means that if the room — the network — is stupid, we ourselves will be made more stupid.”
–Rebecca Rosen in dialogue with David Weinberger
“our task is to learn how to build smart rooms.”
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It’s clear that our visitors—both on-site and online—want access to our material
• For creative use• For personal reflection• For projection into the
public sphere as part of their own life and identity
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Are the artworks* ours to give?
*or rather their representations
Are they ours to withhold?
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• For the artists?• For their descendants/Estates?• For the visitors who pay at the gate?• For the visitors who find us for free
through a link on the Web?• For the Future?
Just who is the Future—and where are they today?
For whom do we hold these works in public trust?