CLICK! submission Photo credit: Elyse Taylor
A current exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (BMA) called CLICK! is a great example of the creative role that museums can play in utilizing the web to involve users. Click! is a multi stage project. First, there was an open call for photographs for the exhibit on the theme of the “Changing Faces of Brooklyn.” Then an open call for evaluation of the submitted photographs online was issued. Finally an exhibit at the museum of the top 20% of the 389 photos submitted was assembled. But that isn’t all.
There is also an exhibit of all the photographs, and multiple statistical views of the voting. These results include very interesting data about the relative ratings of the raters (self-identified in 5 categories from naive to expert), along with a host of other data. I found this information as interesting as the exhibit itself. Begging won’t help. You’ll just have to visit the site yourself to find out how the ratings of experts compared to the ratings of the non-experts. The site has lots of other great features, including an intelligent commentary, a look into the process of mounting the physical exhibit, the comments of raters about the photos, a blog, a podcast, and, novel to me, [click to continue…]
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