Jeff brown bleeding edge4/27/2023 MUSEUM: Clients include the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), SFMOMA, BMW Guggenheim Lab, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum POSITION: President of Local Projects, a "media design firm" in New York City WHAT HE DOES: The recipient of a National Design Award in Interaction Design in 2013, a TED Talk speaker, and among Fast Company's “Most Creative People in Business," Barton is best known in the art world for consulting the Cleveland Museum of Art’s $350 million expansion that intelligently integrated advanced gadgetry and venerated objets d’art. TWITTER STATS: 3K followers (tweets BARTON “We believe will become a large-scale digital implementation.” More to come from Brooklyn. FUTURISTIC PLANS: Bernstein tells Artspace that the Museum has visitor experience project in the works, but can’t discuss the details. There were 3,344 evaluators who cast 410,089 votes on the 389 photographs submitted for the 2008 exhibition “Click.” Then there were 4,481 participants who created 175,183 ratings determining the works installed in the exhibition for the “Split Second.” At the Brooklyn Museum, you vote with your mouse. With “Go,” an estimated 18,000 people made approximately 147,000 studio visits. KILLER APP: Bernstein is quick to reel off the stats she’s helped build in her crowd-sourced shows. In that role she converts visitors into curators, such as with the community-curated show “Go,” which opened over 1,700 artist studios in Brooklyn to the public and then allowed audiences to nominate their favorites to be included in a show at the museum in 2012. Originally hired as a curatorial assistant in the Egyptian art department, Bernstien was bumped up a few thousand years to head the institution's technology department. MUSEUM: Brooklyn Museum POSITION: Vice Director of Digital Engagement and Technology WHAT SHE’S DOING: While its borough is home to more artists than anywhere else in the United States, the Brooklyn Museum still depends on robust digital programing to lure eyes from Manhattan’s many cultural attractions into the museum edging Prospect Park. Another video projection festival slated for early 2015 will activate a whole range of screens across the city in the spirit of a guerilla art project, from outdoor projections downtown to QR-activated screens to sports bar televisions, all emitting something completely unexpected. Next up? Biker video clips: epic crashes, bike messengers in Brussels, famous movie sequences. In his new role, he plans to keep on disassembling the rituals surrounding Internet videos. FUTURISTIC PLANS: Stulen is not about awesome gadgetry and fancy apps-he's into old fashioned moving pictures, only amped with an Internet-age metabolism. The festival ended up drawing some 10,000 people to the Walker field in its summer run, reinventing (or else nostalgic for) the shared experience of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in the digital age. Showing YouTube videos of the Internet’s favorite furry meme-pouncing, mewing, acting imperial-on a big screen in the museum’s commons, the festival made public a viewing experience usually confined to a smartphone or personal computer screen. KILLER APP: At the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he worked from 2008 until now, Stulen launched the public program called Open Field, which famously hosted the Internet “Cat Video Festival” in 2012. He started five weeks ago, so even he is still figuring out what he does at the IMA. Think of his position as the marriage of a time-based art curator with art historical training and a public programmer tasked with engaging audiences of all stripes. MUSEUM: Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) POSITION: Curator of Audience Experiences and Performance (first to hold this title) WHAT HE DOES: Leading a team of four, Stulen curates events at the museum, from traditional lectures to adventurous performance interventions staged across the sprawling 100-acre premises. READ THE FIRST PART OF THE SERIES LOOKING AT MOVERS IN THE ART-TECH SPHERE HERE How do art museums engage audiences addicted to screens? Some dismiss gadgets altogether as technological frippery, while others indulge plugged-in habits, going so far as to hand out iPads with apps that narrate exhibitions. From a digital conservator to a head of a laboratory matchmaking artists and tech companies in Silicon Valley, here are six more critical players revolutionizing the art and tech scene today.
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