tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post5132957969024612088..comments2023-10-17T10:21:11.698-06:00Comments on The Clutter Museum: We are not curatorsLeslie M-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02434392840359276805noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post-4089199785021963992010-11-22T00:57:08.472-07:002010-11-22T00:57:08.472-07:00Leslie: My apologies for this being pretty far of...Leslie: My apologies for this being pretty far off topic. I am working on my thesis on the sustainable museum, and will be quoting from your 2009 blog titled "What can museums learn from the decline of American newspapers." Would it be possible to speak with you about that article?<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />John<br />gravesco1@aol.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post-19241396734269412432010-03-22T08:01:29.164-06:002010-03-22T08:01:29.164-06:00Well, color me a bit chagrined. After doing a pres...Well, color me a bit chagrined. After doing a presentation last week in which I relied pretty heavily on the curation metaphor, I'm pretty sure that had you been in the audience you would have winced. :-)<br /><br />Thanks for keeping us honest in the use of our language. As others have asked, I'd like to have a deeper conversation about what curation is. (And, Teddy, about what publishing is). I recognize that if we use these metaphors as a means to evoke new kinds of dialogs and experiences in the classroom we may miss the mark in terms of the professional standard. But I'd like to think that the more vigorously we understand and consider what constitutes professional curation and publishing, the more likely we are to develop richer and more meaningful experiences. <br /><br />In education, I think we use use language from other domains all the time as a way to make experiences more meaningful. To be sure, in the laboratory of the classroom, we're not going to be practicing these disciplines as much as we are going to be modeling and "performing" some of their associated acts. But I do think there is value in that performance and modeling -- and I definitely want those with domain-expertise (like you and Teddy) to be holding us as true as possible to our metaphors.mburtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00890198261635897872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post-76922845697478739522010-03-19T17:56:13.515-06:002010-03-19T17:56:13.515-06:00Thank you for an excellent post, Leslie. We actua...Thank you for an excellent post, Leslie. We actually curated your piece, today!<br /><br />I think your push-back is spot-on and reflective of the response we all usually express when previously settled structures undergo some type of radical change. However, this cross-pollination of ideas from information technology into higher education and museum science was bound to happen. The question was not whether it would happen, but when.<br /><br />I think there's a unique opportunity for current curators to set the bar for the social media curators to reach. With technology, I'm confidently we social media curators will reach, surpass the requirement. I also expect that social media curation will bring more opportunities and awareness to museum science and education.<br /><br />This is an exciting time which, who knows, may end very soon, but let's bring the curators to the spotlight! Social Media is moving quickly to learn and cross-pollinate ideas, further.Taariq Lewishttp://blog.hivefire.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post-1312351979798681702010-03-19T16:48:53.433-06:002010-03-19T16:48:53.433-06:00Substitute "publish" for "curate,&q...Substitute "publish" for "curate," and this is similar to my argument about publishers. You also can't simply "click to publish," but I know the whole blogosphere would disagree with that. Although social media blur the lines in both these fields, specific needs and talents remain necessary. In any case, I'm glad to see you stepping up for the distinctive profession of curation.Teddy Diggsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post-55468939968470453832010-03-19T10:09:15.074-06:002010-03-19T10:09:15.074-06:00Thank you for sharing this. When you mentioned ...Thank you for sharing this. When you mentioned 'click to curate' I thought of those who think they archive (because they "saved it to a folder." Borrowing terminology doesn't always work as you have shared.MikeCUChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17050107482543985614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post-88200597556540546552010-03-19T09:50:45.739-06:002010-03-19T09:50:45.739-06:00This might be kind of off base but, I've notic...This might be kind of off base but, I've noticed a trend that various fields are merging and borrowing terms, concepts and skill sets from one another.<br /><br />Take the field of "information science". Information schools are teaching courses on how to use social media (marketing?) and how to use Photoshop (graphic design, art, journalism?)Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post-19370604551488986082010-03-19T09:22:38.106-06:002010-03-19T09:22:38.106-06:00Wow, zing (is that a witty neologism?)
Seriously,...Wow, zing (is that a witty neologism?)<br /><br />Seriously, I like the push back. So many of us, especially namely me, maybe don't have the full grasp of what curatorship is but that added NYTimes article is a great help.<br /><br />So now that you've established what a curator is not, let's hear more on what it is, or better, what are the things people have been lazily slapping the label in can learn from the craft?Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980801837743251948noreply@blogger.com