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Mapping the Museum/WCMA at Night

Williams College Museum of Art, January 2016

Winter Study offers Williams students the chance to take just one course for four weeks during  the month of January. I recently taught Mapping the Museum- Intervention and Participation in Contemporary Museum Life. In the class, students dove into artists working with Institutional Critique and institutions engaging in experimental practices in order to critique themselves.

The students studied artists such as Fred Wilson, Andrea Fraser, Machine Project and the Guerrilla Girls, and institutions/initiatives like Portland Art Museum’s Shine a Light, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Santa Cruz MAH, and The Hammer. While presenting and researching these individuals and institutions, they looked at how these artists/institutions connect to audiences and reinvent how a visitor interacts with exhibitions or the space.

The class ended with a WCMA at Night event on January 28th, where the students presented museum interventions that engaged with WCMA collections, space, and staff in unconventional ways. We invited Matt Anderson to bring his audio students to participate as well. The project was collectively authored by the students, WCMA staff, and me.

See the syllabus and related texts at http://mappingthemuseum.tumblr.com

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Thinking about Visitor Comfort

http://artmuseumteaching.com/2016/01/27/value-of-a-chair/

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The Evolution of the Museum Visit, from Privilege to Personalized Experience

What you experience when you visit an art museum these days is likely very different from what your parents did when they were your age.

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Museum Hack - Private Tours & Company Team Building

Museum Hack is a highly interactive, subversive, fun, non-traditional museum tour.

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Online exhibition highlighting works in which artists, mostly of the 20th century, have addressed the museum, confronting its concept and function, commenting on its nature, drawing from its methods, and examining its relationship to the art it contains.

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