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Learn about exciting new developments at Night Kitchen Interactive.
We’re excited to announce that The College of Physicians of Philadelphia has selected Night Kitchen Interactive to develop The Virtual Museum of Vaccines website. In keeping with the College’s community education initiatives on healthcare, the website is intended to provide context and understanding of the ways in which vaccines work, how they have been developed, and the role that they’ve played in human health over the last few hundred years.
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At this year’s MAAM annual meeting, Matthew Fisher will co-chair Museums and the Social Web: From Exhibits to PR to Fundraising with Lesly Attarian, Vice President of External Affairs at Please Touch Museum and Rachel Dukeman, Cultural Consultant at R&R Creative.
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Night Kitchen Interactive will be collaborating with the Smithsonian Institution Archives to establish a cohesive web presence that reflects the SIA’s full range of offerings. Over the next few months, we will be conducting a comprehensive audit of eight existing websites, interviewing stakeholders and audience groups, and identifying the design, content, and technology requirements for the site’s implementation.
Earlier this year we created the Country Dog Gentlemen interactive for the touch-screen kiosks at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Koret Visitor Education Center. Guided by the canine characters from Roy De Forest’s painting, visitors can watch animated stories to learn about artists such as Jackson Pollock, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, and other artists. In addition, they can create their own masterpieces through six art-making activities and share it with friends and family directly from the kiosks.
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Matthew Fisher will be moderating a panel titled "Crowdsourcing Culture" from 4-5:30pm on Monday, October 5th at Innovation Philadelphia’s second Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit. Crowdsourcing, the practice of turning to a large group or community to solve problems, is a rapidly growing area thanks to online networks and social media. Technology is pushing the limits of participation and engagement to undreamed of levels and organizations are using these tools in new and innovative ways. This panel explores how crowdsourcing is impacting business, culture, design and even politics, as the group has been turned from audience into collaborator.
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The National Constitution Center (NCC) asked Night Kitchen to bring these American icons to life through The Founders Quiz. This lively interactive invites you to answer a short series of engaging questions and discover which Founder you most resemble through a series of amusing questions, prompting the participant to think about a range of scenarios, from what he or she would most like to do to decompress, to how he or she would navigate dinner plans with friends.
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We’re thrilled that the Star Spangled Banner website has been named one of the top 10 websites of 2008 by the Interactive Media Awards!
The site, developed for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, was awarded Best in Class for the Museum website category in 2008, placing it among the 36 nominees that represented sites with the highest scoring evaluations from among all Best in Class winners. We are honored to have been selected among an original entry pool of over 3,000 entries from 52 countries worldwide.
We here at Night Kitchen love to share our thoughts on the value of collaborative storytelling and the impact it can have on museum visitors of all ages. Whether adding a humorous example of Abraham Lincoln in contemporary culture to 21st Century Abe’s growing collection, or sharing your thoughts on what photography means to you through the click! photography changes everything site, we’re passionate about creating and fostering opportunities to contribute to a communal dialog. It’s therefore always fantastic to learn about people who’ve contributed to and been inspired by one of our projects, and have since hit the ground running with their own storytelling pursuits!
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KYW Newsradio, a CBS radio station with more listeners than any other radio station in the Philadelphia region, featured the 21st Century Abe website today. The article spotlights the Rosenbach Museum & Library’s goal in making Lincoln more accessible to modern audiences – Abe with YouTube videos, a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and more. Read the full article.
Since the site’s launch on Lincoln’s 200th birthday in February, the site has continued to garner creative contributions from visitors and project artists, helping shape the curatorial team’s portrait of a contemporary Abraham Lincoln. The latest contribution to the site is a comedic video from Philadelphia’s 1812 Productions, “Abe Lincoln: Behind the Speeches.” For more on this project, read our case study.
In response to the American Association of Museum’s conference theme, “The Museum Experiment”, Night Kitchen Interactive is sharing its recent collaborations with organizations that have taken bold new approaches to encouraging visitors to contribute their own creative responses to museum collections.
Join us at our panel sessions The Places and Stories that Matter and Museum as Platform, or please stop by our booth (#831) where we will be showcasing visitor-contributed projects such as click! photography changes everything, 21st Century Abe, Star-Spangled Banner, and more!
