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Thinking ahead: claiming the creative space
10 / 09 / 2010 – 10 / 09 / 2010
It’s 2010 and boredom is dead. Non-stop interactivity, information and images are in the palm of your hand. Technology is dramatically transforming art, journalism, photography, publishing, audio and video media, social networking, conferences, language, learning and academia. Collaborative creative communities are everywhere and spontaneous. Now do-it-yourself online curating is the new black. How does this impact on gallery and museum professionals and the physical spaces we create? Our speakers share their insights and experiences in creating physical spaces that offer everything virtual spaces can and more, and in “real time”. It all begins with a great idea …
Speakers include:
Rachel Vincent has worked as a social history curator for more than a decade, including Project Curator for Glasgow’s Kelvingrove New Century Project, a large-scale redisplay of Scotland’s largest civic museum and art gallery. Rachel is now at the Museum of the Riverina and completing a PhD in Museum Studies and Human Geography. MAP:me, a series of personal maps created from illuminated cane and paper sculptures is her most recent work, in conjunction with artist Annie Edney and Wagga residents.
Michael Desmond’s career spans museums and galleries including Senior Curator at the National Gallery of Australia, International Paintings and Sculpture and Manager of Collection Development and Research at the Powerhouse Museum. Most recently Michael has curated Present Tense: an imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age for the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, where he is Senior Curator.
Dr Lynda Kelly, Head of Audience Research at the Australian Museum, joins us for this important discussion on the shifting expectations of real exhibitions in the Virtual Age. Happily obsessed with Web 2.0, Lynda is curious how this will change the museums and galleries world and the way people learn. Her new book, Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums, co-edited with Dr Fiona Cameron, will be released in late 2010.
A Q&A forum (like a chat room, but without avatars and emoticons) will follow. Note this is a tweet-free seminar. Please turn off your mobile phones before entering the auditorium.
When: 2pm – 5pm, Friday 10 September 2010
Where: Museum of Sydney, Cnr Phillip & Bridge Sts, Sydney
Cost: $45 full / $35 conc. (includes refreshments and networking drinks)
Further information: Asha Bradley, Programs & Services Officer on (02) 9339 9914 or ashab@mgnsw.org.au
