Comments on: Let’s hear it…

By: Shelley Bernstein

Shelley Bernstein — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:25:53 +0000

Stephanie, Peter — looks really fantastic and congrats on the deploy! LAMoCA and the Cooper-Hewitt did similar things recently — sort of using WordPress to provide full featured mini-sites to encourage discussion (for WACK! and the Design Triennial, respectively). It’s a nice approach to provide something really dynamic and a great idea. It will be fun to watch over the course of the exhibition.

By: Stephanie Pau

Stephanie Pau — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:08:16 +0000

Bravo Brooklyn! I love all of the inciteful commentary on the blog. And kudos as always for the forward thinking of all of the Brooklyn Museum’s programming! To follow up on Peter’s last comment, out team at SFMOMA got our Eliasson blog up and it’s garnering a lot of wonderful visitor participation. The challenge was customizing wordpress and getting it to seamlessly mesh with our interactive feature. Check it out if you’d like, link is http://www.sfmoma.org/eliasson.

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Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:30:20 +0000

[…] Shelley mentioned in her last post, Let’s Hear It, we are rolling out a new version of comment kiosks for the exhibition Infinite Island: […]

By: Peter Samis

Peter Samis — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:13:37 +0000

Way to go and kudos to our peers in Brooklyn! We’re trying out something very similar with our Olafur Eliasson show, which opens a week later here in San Francisco. Your design is clean and lucid, the artist statements or brief descriptions good. I can’t wait to see how the visitor comments populate and add dimension to the site–and to the exhibition’s meanings!

The attract loop idea is great, btw, and I like the way you integrated the Comment Guidelines as effective (but not forbidding!) terms of use.

Congrats. We’re applauding out here and we look forward to seeing and hearing more.

Best,
Peter

By: Nate Schroeder

Nate Schroeder — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:30:44 +0000

I agree, what a great implementation – I love the general vs. the granular comments and the random “attract screen” idea… This is something we’ve been talking about as part of a potential grant project in the next few years, you can count on an email or two if that comes through!

By: Shelley

Shelley — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:00:48 +0000

Thanks, Bryan. We first started this back with Global Feminisms and Durand and found this way had a lot going for it. It was easier for staff to keep up with things --we didn't have to trek down to the galleries to look at the physical books anymore which is pretty helpful in a building this large. Also, we could respond to issues quickly and write back if necessary. Visitors could check back to see responses, etc. It seemed to work pretty well and you can see the comments that were left for those two exhibitions here in the comment archives.

By: bryan kennedy

bryan kennedy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:05:25 +0000

Oh this is so great that you guys are doing this for an art show. Art always evokes such remarkable responses from people that I am always bummed that museums don’t offer so many ways to record these ideas. Way to think of your visitors in a new way.

Rock on,
bk