“In plain terms, across the field, in museums, art institutions, performance forums, and even historical societies, the visitor’s experience is now being personalized. This means that not only is the visit marked by enhanced, interactive, and “dialogic” engagement, but also there is an institutional recognition of the visitor as an independent maker of meaning who uses the museum in a variety of ways to fulfill particular, individual needs and desires.”
Category: AUDIENCE
Boston Symphony Orchestra Loans Patrons iPads To Increase Engagement
“They’ll be able to view sheet music for the pieces being played, video interviews with musicians, podcasts about the composers and analysis on the works themselves. They’ll also get a close-up view of the conductor from the musicians’ point of view from video monitors set up in the hall.”
Crowdsourcing The Discovery Of A Rare Map
Or at least starting with Reddit … and then moving back to the library: “So what was a rare turn-of-the-19th-century Ottoman atlas doing unnoticed in the vaults of the National Library of Norway? Fortunately, there was a reference librarian on hand to track down the details.”
Programming A Linked Series Of Plays And Events To Get People Back To The Theatre
“Parsons noted that the social justice program has ‘sort of done what I hoped it would do, which is get people going a little bit. I didn’t have anything to accomplish except to get people in. And it’s worked. You gotta get a gimmick. That was in Gypsy right? You gotta get a gimmick. That was my gimmick.'”
The Internet – Plus Dance Apps – Spread New Dances As Fast As They’re Invented
“It isn’t easy for aspiring music stars to stand out from the pack, but Daryon Simmons has a gift that record labels covet in the Internet era: The 20-year-old performer can start a dance craze.”
Audience Member Steps In After Actor Taken Ill And Makes Her Theatre Debut
In what has been described as a “fairytale in itself”, Melissa Bayern put herself forward for the role of the Witch in Into the Woods after attending a performance in which Gillian Bevan, who should have been playing the role, was taken ill. Bayern subsequently found herself making her professional stage debut in the musical.
Making the Most of Stakeholder Revolt: The Recapturing of San Diego Opera and Sweet Briar College
The two cases turn out to be quite similar: shutdowns announced seemingly out of the blue and with little consultation; institutions, with challenges but no immediate financial crisis, in fields (opera, single-sex colleges) with lots of doomsayers. Here’s a look at four key factors in how these cases shook out.
Facebook Nudity Day (That’ll Show The Censors)
The Jan. 14 protest “call[ed] for Facebook users to post an artwork depicting the naked body to protest the social media website’s ‘continuing censorship of artists, curators and critics who have been censored for posting art and images that depict the nude human body.'” And they did – “from Egon Schiele’s painting of himself masturbating and a phallic photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe to Japanese erotic prints and the accursed Courbet.”
Wikipedia At 15: Here’s What It Looks Like
“Today, the site is available in 280 languages. A new Pew Research Center analysis of the most visited pages in each of Wikipedia’s top 10 languages provides a window on how people in different societies and cultures use the international reference tool.”
Study: Music Is Top Interest Of Millennials
“Repucom, which researches sports and entertainment markets, found that 86 percent of millennials said they were interested in music. By comparison, 83 percent said the same about movies, 79 percent about television and 59 percent about sports.”