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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!
Matthew Fisher and co-panelists reflect on and critique an extensive year-long collaboration to develop and launch the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s new DialogTable at the National Art Education Association national convention in Minneapolis.
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click! photography changes everything, a website designed by Night Kitchen Interactive, was featured on the home page of Communication Arts today. Organized by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative (SPI), click! invites the public to share images and stories about the impact of photography on history, culture, and everyday life. Visitor-contributed stories will be featured alongside those by invited experts from diverse fields. In addition, visitors can get an inside look at the Smithsonian’s photographic collections from SPI’s blog, The Bigger Picture. For more, view SPI’s full press release.
After a long and rewarding year, Night Kitchen is proud to announce that its collaborative project with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, a series of 32 short movies (over 70 total minutes) for their interactive DialogTable, has launched!
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Night Kitchen has two internships available this summer. Read more about them:
Looking for innovative examples and experimental solutions for bridging disciplines, media, and audiences with interactive websites? Then join Matthew Fisher at the AAM’s 2009 Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo, where he’ll present in the following panel discussions:
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Commemorating Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday, the Night Kitchen Interactive-designed 21st Century Abe website launched today. The website features creative interpretations of the Rosenbach Museum & Library’s collection of rare and significant Lincoln materials, such as speeches, letters, and notes. Contributors include artist/illustrator Maira Kalman, musician Bryce Dessner of the band The National, multimedia artists Archive, and Lincoln scholar Douglas Wilson. In the spring, Philadelphia comedy theatre company 1812 Productions will add their own take on Lincoln to the site.
Contributors also include … you. Fully participatory, the site invites audiences to design their own interpretations of the Lincoln documents and to share their viewpoints on the current obsession with this historical heavy weight.
Happy Birthday, Mr. President.
For more, read the Rosenbach Museum & Library’s social media release.
Fantastic news! Night Kitchen’s work on the Star Spangled Banner website for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History was honored by the Interactive Media Awards as "Museum Best in Class" for the site’s excellence in design, development and implementation.
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