An Art Exhibit
Sat, Sep. 20th, 2008 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spiraliciousThe exhibition's site:
Brooklyn Museum Exhibitions: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition
June 27–August 10, 2008
2nd Floor
"Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. Taking its inspiration from the critically acclaimed book The Wisdom of Crowds, in which New Yorker business and financial columnist James Surowiecki asserts that a diverse crowd is often wiser at making decisions than expert individuals, Click! explores whether Surowiecki’s premise can be applied to the visual arts—is a diverse crowd just as “wise” at evaluating art as the trained experts?"
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/click/
The article I read on the exhibition:
Art or Not The Brooklyn Museum crowd-sources a photography exhibition.
By Mia Fineman
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Click here to read a slide-show essay about the Brooklyn Museum's experiment in crowd-sourcing.
http://www.slate.com/id/2195378/?GT1=38001
A similar art experiment mentioned in the above article:
Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings
http://www.diaart.org/km/painting.html
I really wanted to talk about this article and exhibition when I first read it but was unable to. But I am bringing it to your attention now because it is still relevant and an interesting topic. And I was wondering about any of your opinions on the idea of art exhibitions being curated by the general public vs. curators, or anything else brought up by this post.
Brooklyn Museum Exhibitions: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition
June 27–August 10, 2008
2nd Floor
"Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. Taking its inspiration from the critically acclaimed book The Wisdom of Crowds, in which New Yorker business and financial columnist James Surowiecki asserts that a diverse crowd is often wiser at making decisions than expert individuals, Click! explores whether Surowiecki’s premise can be applied to the visual arts—is a diverse crowd just as “wise” at evaluating art as the trained experts?"
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/click/
The article I read on the exhibition:
Art or Not The Brooklyn Museum crowd-sources a photography exhibition.
By Mia Fineman
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Click here to read a slide-show essay about the Brooklyn Museum's experiment in crowd-sourcing.
http://www.slate.com/id/2195378/?GT1=38001
A similar art experiment mentioned in the above article:
Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings
http://www.diaart.org/km/painting.html
I really wanted to talk about this article and exhibition when I first read it but was unable to. But I am bringing it to your attention now because it is still relevant and an interesting topic. And I was wondering about any of your opinions on the idea of art exhibitions being curated by the general public vs. curators, or anything else brought up by this post.
