What: Omaha Beach reconstructs the early part of D-Day on Easy Red and Fox Green beaches (positioned just north and east of today’s Normandy American Cementary and Memorial).
Where: University of Oslo, Norway
Producers: SitsimLab–project, Professor Gunnar Liestøl at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo
What: Virtural museum with 70 17th Century Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings from the Collection, accessible exclusively through Virtual Reality (VR) technology.
Where: Online, entirely virtual museum
Links: http://www.thekremercollection.com/the-kremer-museum/
Producer: Architect Johan van Lierop, Founder of Architales and Principal at Studio Libeskind
The Kremer Museum from The Kremer Collection on Vimeo.
What: Augmented reality street murals created by artist Luis Valle
Where: Miami, Florida, USA
Links: http://bigthink.com/jonathan-kendall/how-augmented-reality-will-revolutionize-the-art-world
Producer: Mussa, using the Mussa App. “The Mussa App is a digital visualization platform that helps creative professionals integrate augmented reality (AR) into the work, and share their creations with people all over the world. ”
What: Felice Grodin: Invasive Species, the Pérez Art Museum Miami’s first-ever AR exhibit, which explores the interconnectedness of physical landscapes and the mind
Where: Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
Links: http://pamm.org/ar
Producers: Cuseum
PAMM AR – Felice Grodin: Invasive Species from Cuseum on Vimeo.
Where: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
What: Murals that come to life with interesting animations using Augmented Reality
Producer: MIT
Links: https://arts.mit.edu/artists/the-borderline/#about-the-project
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Where: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachussets, USA
What: “Hacking the Heist” AR experience, allowing visitors to see paintings that were stolen. “When a camera on a smartphone or tablet that’s loaded with the company’s app is aimed at the spaces where the paintings were, the images appear on the screen, as if they were actually on the wall.”
Produced by: Cuseum
Link to the project: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/21/this-boston-company-uses-virtual-reality-view-artwork-stolen-from-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum/AxL3lRgoodDto1C0s6qP2J/story.html
What: AR experience of famous Revolutionary figures like Benjamin Franklin give you key insights to the history of the city
Where: Around Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Links: Check out the link to the project: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2018/06/15/digital-ben-franklin-augmented-reality/
Produced by: Connecticut-based ARsome Technology
*For complete descriptions of sessions visit, https://mw18.mwconf.org/program/. Locations of sessions subject to change. Please check the conference book upon arrival in Vancouver.
Wednesday, April 18
9:00am – 12:00pm
Junior Ballroom B
Workshop: Experiential Master Plans: Integrating Digital Experiences Into The Physical Environment
Brad Baer, Bluecadet, USA
Wednesday, April 18
9:00am – 12:00pm
Orca Room
Workshop: No Cheat Codes Needed: We Built A Digital Game For A Museum And You Can, Too!
Kate Meyers Emery, George Eastman Museum, USA
Wednesday, April 18,
1:30pm – 4:00pm
Finback Room
Workshop: Interview Techniques And Production For Storytelling Through Audio
Agnes Stauber, LACMA, USA, Anne Martens, J. Paul Getty Museum, USA
Wednesday, April 18
1:30pm – 4:00pm
Parksville Room
Workshop: Produce Stronger Video: Writing Films For Museums
Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, MCA Chicago, USA
OPENING PLENARY
Thursday, April 19
9:00am -10:30 am
Grand Ballroom
Opening Plenary: Step Inside Our Stories: The Power Of Immersive Storytelling
Vicki Dobbs Beck, Lucasfilm, USA
Thursday, April 19
11:00am – 12:20pm
Parksville Room
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Session: Skill and Sensibility: The Creative Producer
Benjamin Walbrook, MADA, Monash University, Australia, Vince Dziekan, Monash University, Australia
Thursday, April 19
2:00pm -3:30pm
Junior Ballroom D
Meeting: Community of Practice: Immersive Storytelling
Community of Practice conveners
Thursday, April 19
6:30pm – 7:20pm
Registration Foyer (3rd floor)
Demonstration: Supermediation: From Lithograph, To Diorama, To 3D Scan And VR World
Holly Grover, Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand, Chris Sheehan
Thursday, April 19
6:30pm – 7:20pm
Registration Foyer (3rd floor)
Demonstration: Stories of the people, by the people: The Be Here: Main Street Initiative
Heather Shelton, MuseWeb, USA, Robbie Davis, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Thursday, April 19
6:30pm – 7:20pm
Registration Foyer (3rd floor)
Demonstration: Word By Word: A Mobile Game To Encourage Collaborative Storytelling Within The Museum
Timothy Wray, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Elin Ingimundardottir, Tax office of Denmark, Denmark, Greta Stanciauskaite, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Thursday, April 19
7:30pm – 8:20pm
Registration Foyer (3rd floor)
Demonstration: Story City: Mapping a Community Voice by Voice
Renee Chalut, Vancouver Public Library, Canada
Friday, April 20
9:00am – 10:20am
Parksville Room
Session: Making Metadata Into Meaning: Digital Storytelling With IIIF
Tristan Roddis, Cogapp, UK
Friday, April 20
11:00am – 12:20pm
Grand Ballroom
Lightning Talks I: #metoo: Building capacity for online collecting of extraordinary events (and everyday life)
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Sweden
Friday, April 20
11:00am – 12:20pm
Grand Ballroom
Lightning Talks I: Changing Approaches To Presenting Collections Online: The Netflix Effect
Kate Huckle, Royal Academy of Arts, UK, Louise Cohen, Royal Academy of Arts, UK
Friday, April 20
12:55pm – 1:45pm
Registration Foyer (3rd floor)
Demonstration: Frankenstein200: Transmedia Learning In Creativity And Responsible Innovation
Rae Ostman, Arizona State University, USA
Friday, April 20
2:00pm – 2:50pm
Junior Ballroom A/B
How-to Session 1: The People Vs Technology: Harnessing Technology To Engage Audiences In A Playful Age
Jessica Taylor, Preloaded, UK
Friday, April 20
2:00pm – 2:50pm
Junior Ballroom D
How-to Session 3: WikiWelcome: Students Creating History and Sharing Knowledge about their Neighbourhood in Present, Past and Future
Sofia Dahlquist, Stockholmskällan, Sweden
Saturday, April 21
9:30am – 10:50am
Grand Ballroom
Lightning Talks II: “But Is It Art?”: Validating Visitor Viewpoints And The Making Of “A Piece Of Work” Podcast
Sara Bodinson, The Museum of Modern Art, USA
Saturday, April 21
9:30am – 10:50am
Grand Ballroom
Lightning Talks II: Eye To Ear – Gallery Of Audible Images
Pamela Auchincloss, NOUSdigital, USA
Saturday, April 21
9:30am – 10:50am
Grand Ballroom
Lightning Talks II: The Enemy – A Virtual Reality Experience In Museums
Cody Oliver, MIT, United States
Saturday, April 21
11:00am – 12:20pm
Junior Ballroom C
Beyond the Walls : Tasting Together – Podcasts And Meaningful Community Engagement
Michael Schwartz, The Jewish Museum and Archives of BC, Canada
Saturday, April 21
11:00am – 12:20pm
Junior Ballroom D
Mobile Access to Museums: Museum On The Street: Building A Community Digital Heritage Exchange In Hastings, UK
Jon Pratty, School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex, UK
Saturday, April 21
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Grand Ballroom
Closing Plenary With Curtis Wong, Microsoft
Name: Heather Shelton @museumsago (Twitter)
Organization: MuseWeb Foundation
Be Here: Main Street is a multifacted crowdsourcing project that essentially involves gathering and publishing stories about small towns, local people, local life and experiences.
The goal of the project, which is being run in connection with the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program, is to change the overall narrative about small-town America by letting people learn about what life is like there.
We’re just a small group, so to make the project work, we’ve trained people in towns (mainly in Minnesota at this stage) to collect stories in their communities.
They can use a free and easy app called Be Here Stories to do so. Once recorded the stories are mapped and people can hear them on location.
Challenges: Getting people to submit stories, working with free tools and platforms, working remotely with communities, dealing with privacy issues, audience apprehensions about using technology.
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