Living art collections: how to breathe life into digital art collections by opening up to visitors' participation?

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[ ID ] 3ab0fbb2-e3dd-468e-9980-efe598e2dcfc

[ Submitter's Name ] Philo van Kemenade [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Slovak National Gallery [ Submitter's Twitter ] @phivk

[ Space ] digital [ Secondary Space ] exhibit

[ Format ] learning-lab, hands-on

Description

During this session we'll explore collaboratively how audiences can be invited to engage with digital art collections, both remotely through the web and in a gallery / museum space. We will brainstorm what advantages can be unlocked for both galleries and visitors, and propose solutions to challenges surrounding digital art collections.

We aim to explore questions like:

• How do gallery visitors and art enthusiasts wish to interact with artworks, artists, styles, periods and collections?
• What desires do museums and galleries have for their collections?
• How can visitors enrich a collection by annotating meta data?
• How can annotation activities be rewarding for both visitors and galleries?
• How to strike a balance between automation and human work in annotation & curation?

The facilitators will introduce their work on the digital collection platform webumenia.sk as a use case to open up questions and challenges surrounding digital art collections.

Agenda

Intro [10min]

A brief show and tell of facilitator's work on the digital collection platform webumenia.sk at the R&D Lab of the Slovak National Gallery. Ideally we'll also invite editors, curators and developers working on other collections (e.g. Tate, V&A, Europeana, you?) to briefly share their approaches and challenges in user participation.

Break out Brainstorm [80min]

Next we break out in small groups (3-6 participants) to brainstorm challenges such as:

• what does a living collection look like?
• interaction in the gallery space
• gamification
• kids & art
• machine learning vs human annotation
• what do galleries want to know about their art?
• what do visitors want to know about art?

  Sharing outcomes [30min: 5 x 6 groups]

After brainstorming, each group presents outcomes to the other participants in a quick stand-up presentation. After every presentation there is opportunity for questions and feedback.

Participants

The plenary intro will stay short and snappy. Then the group quickly breaks out into smaller teams (3-6 participants), this will keep discussions focussed and lively and allows everyone around the table to contribute.

For brainstorming: 3 participants would form 1 team. 25 participants would form 5 teams.

The length of brainstorm vs sharing sessions will flex if group numbers drastically differ from 10-20 participants.

Outcome

We're aiming for the following outcomes:

• An informed overview of common challenges faced by institutions managing digital art collections (documented in a blog post after the festival).
• Newly generated ideas and solutions in different forms to multiple of these challenges (documented in a blog post after the festival).
• Participants have found out about existing (open-source?) solutions they didn't know existed before.
• Fostered connections between like-minded participants, working on art collections across organisations and countries.

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Re Stipend request: part of travel and accommodation can likely be covered by facilitators and their organisation

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Thanks for the submission! Unfortunately this session has not been selected as part of the program for 2016. Please expect an email from us with further information very soon.