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Games in the Agora Presentation for the seminar, “Museology, museography and new means of addressing the public,” Centre Pompidou (IRI), Paris, 11 February 2009 Nancy Proctor, Smithsonian American Art Museum  [email_address] .edu What’s at stake in the 21st century museum
The Smithsonian Institution: for the Increase & Diffusion of Knowledge ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],More than 32 million visitors on site & 189 million on-line each year
SI 2.0 What is the Museum in this Web 2.0 world of information on demand?  Smithsonian20.si.edu ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The American Art Museum
The Museums… The Smithsonian American Art Museum & its Renwick Gallery
The Museum has become a  Distributed Network
Photo by Mike Lee, 2007; from SAAM Flickr Group Our audiences now access American Art through a wide range of platforms  beyond  the museum’s walls and website
The Museum is transforming from Acropolis…
…  into Agora
The Stakes of the Game
Ghosts of a Chance:  A Game in the Museum Agora
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Ghosts of a Chance is: ,[object Object]
Ghosts of a Chance is: ,[object Object]
Ghosts of a Chance is: ,[object Object]
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Ghosts of a Chance is: ,[object Object],[object Object]
Where GOAC was played: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Where GOAC was played: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Clues by text message
A clue from a mystery caller
A clue seen through a window
An Art Demonstrator?
A chef in the galleries?
Let them eat cake!
And dance!
Getting Creative
Everyone’s a winner!
Player Feedback ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Player Feedback ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Nancy Proctor,  [email_address] . edu  9 December 2008 What’s at stake in the Museum as Agora
Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu FIAMP 16 October 2008 Fraunhofer Institute, Kunstmuseum Bonn:  ‘Beat Zoderer’ exhibition (Listen project) 2003 Fraunhofer Institute, Kunstmuseum Bonn:  ‘Beat Zoderer’ exhibition (Listen project) 2003 It’s NOT about the Technology
Interpretation is as essential to the Museum as cutlery is to a banquet Beth Lipman,  Bancketje (Banquet)  2003

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],If the Museum doesn’t provide it:
Learning through Socratic Dialogue ,[object Object]
“Meet them where they are, & take them someplace new.” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Happiness Nancy Proctor,  [email_address] . edu  9 December 2008
Happiness Nancy Proctor,  [email_address] . edu  9 December 2008 1. Satisfying  work  to do 2. The experience of  being good  at something 3. Time spent with  people we like 4. The chance to be a part of  something bigger –  JANE M C GONIGAL, PhD Institute for the Future  Hosted by the AAM Center for the Future of Museums,  December 2, 2008, at the Newseum, Washington, DC http://www.slideshare.net/avantgame/gaming-the-future-of-museums-a-lecture-by-jane-mcgonigal-presentation?nocache=4592
The Stakes of the Museum Game of the Future Nancy Proctor,  [email_address] . edu  9 December 2008 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Games in the Agora Presentation at Centre Pompidou

  • 1. Games in the Agora Presentation for the seminar, “Museology, museography and new means of addressing the public,” Centre Pompidou (IRI), Paris, 11 February 2009 Nancy Proctor, Smithsonian American Art Museum [email_address] .edu What’s at stake in the 21st century museum
  • 2.
  • 3.
  • 5. The Museums… The Smithsonian American Art Museum & its Renwick Gallery
  • 6. The Museum has become a Distributed Network
  • 7. Photo by Mike Lee, 2007; from SAAM Flickr Group Our audiences now access American Art through a wide range of platforms beyond the museum’s walls and website
  • 8. The Museum is transforming from Acropolis…
  • 9. … into Agora
  • 10. The Stakes of the Game
  • 11. Ghosts of a Chance: A Game in the Museum Agora
  • 12.
  • 13.
  • 14.
  • 15.
  • 16.
  • 17.
  • 18.
  • 19.
  • 20.
  • 21. Clues by text message
  • 22. A clue from a mystery caller
  • 23. A clue seen through a window
  • 25. A chef in the galleries?
  • 26. Let them eat cake!
  • 30.
  • 31.
  • 32. Nancy Proctor, [email_address] . edu 9 December 2008 What’s at stake in the Museum as Agora
  • 33. Nancy Proctor, ProctorN@si.edu FIAMP 16 October 2008 Fraunhofer Institute, Kunstmuseum Bonn: ‘Beat Zoderer’ exhibition (Listen project) 2003 Fraunhofer Institute, Kunstmuseum Bonn: ‘Beat Zoderer’ exhibition (Listen project) 2003 It’s NOT about the Technology
  • 34. Interpretation is as essential to the Museum as cutlery is to a banquet Beth Lipman, Bancketje (Banquet) 2003

  • 35.
  • 36.
  • 37.
  • 38. Happiness Nancy Proctor, [email_address] . edu 9 December 2008
  • 39. Happiness Nancy Proctor, [email_address] . edu 9 December 2008 1. Satisfying work to do 2. The experience of being good at something 3. Time spent with people we like 4. The chance to be a part of something bigger – JANE M C GONIGAL, PhD Institute for the Future Hosted by the AAM Center for the Future of Museums, December 2, 2008, at the Newseum, Washington, DC http://www.slideshare.net/avantgame/gaming-the-future-of-museums-a-lecture-by-jane-mcgonigal-presentation?nocache=4592
  • 40.