Museums+Tech 2022 – Turning it off and on again

Museums Computer Group

What does ‘digital’ mean to the museum of 2022?

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<h1>MCG&#x27;s Museums+Tech 2022 — Turning it off and on again</h1><h2>Museums and the ‘new’ normal</h2><h2>Friday 11 November, 2022</h2><h3>What does ‘digital’ mean to the museum of 2022? How have user needs changed and how have museums responded? What were the successes and failures from the digital interventions of 2020? We&#x27;ll be discussing this, and more, at this year&#x27;s conference.</h3>2020 saw cultural heritage organisations produce a multitude of digital responses to events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the ongoing climate crisis.Two years on, what is the legacy of these digital interventions? Has the disruption to visiting a physical space resulted in embedding long-term digital initiatives that have persisted following reopening, or have they been abandoned in a bid to recreate the ‘old normal’?Our 2022 conference seeks to discuss the varying situations and strategies across institutions, sharing best practices for digital futures, telling cautionary tales, and situating digital cultural heritage within the wider political and financial landscape.A﻿n overview of the programme is below and you can find full details of the programme <a href="https://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/museumstech-2022-turning-it-off-and-on-again/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">on our website</a>.<h2>Programme (get the full programme <a href="https://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/museumstech-2022-turning-it-off-and-on-again/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">on our website</a>)</h2>The MCG Committee is proud to present a truly hybrid conference, with a mix of in-person and remote presentations. We hope that this allows all of our community to participate.10.00 Welcome and introductions<h3>10.10 Keynote </h3>Kati Price (Head of Experience and Digital, V&amp;A)What was that?Reflections on two and a half years of change within the cultural sectorAs well we know, museums – and the wider cultural sector – experienced a massive shift in the context in which we work and live. And that shift had a lot of consequences – some good, some bad, some temporary and some more permanent. Kati will reflect on the impact these have had, both individually and collectively, on the work we do and how we do it. <h3>11.00 2-minute silence</h3><h3>11.05 Break</h3><h3>11.30 Session 1: Organisational change</h3>Impact Areas and best practices regarding the maximisation of the impact of digitisation of cultural heritage. The importance of Digital Cultural Active Participation. Maria Tartari (IULM University), Pier Luigi Sacco (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio”), Chieti Pescara (Dipartimento di Scienze Filosofiche, Pedagogiche ed Economico-Quantitative), Federico Pilati (IULM University), Francesca Manfredini (EFHA)Recruiting collective intelligence to level the contemporary art world’s stratified distribution of prestige and value: how online collections could potentially impact the actual art systemStephanie Bertrand (ICS-FORTH)Digital is our everyday reality, digital preservation should be tooSomaya Langley (Science Museum Group)From the top: ACMI’s CEO Digital Mentoring ProgramSeb Chan (ACMI), Indigo Holcombe-James (ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society)<h3>12.15 Session 2: Collections</h3>Momentous: redefining crisis through digital engagement at the National Museum of AustraliaCraig Middleton (National Museum of Australia), Caroline Wilson-Barnao (University of Queensland), Lisa Enright (University of Queensland)Place, from a distance: using digital media to go localDavid Weinczok (National Museums Scotland)New normal = same to dos, new pressure, different anglesAmy Adams (National Museum of the Royal Navy), Karen Clarke (National Museum of the Royal Navy)Cyberattacks: the reality, the trauma, and how to survive. A case study from Hackney MuseumNiti Acharya (Hackney Museum), Rebecca Odell (Hackney Museum)<h3>13.00 Lunch and AGM</h3><h3>14.00 Session 3: User experience</h3>How social media users experience museums’ posting on social issuesSophia Bakogianni (Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens)The new phygital normal: case studies from IndiaShalini Bansal (Museums22)A shot in the arm for QR Codes in museumsAdam Coulson (National Museums Scotland)12,000 sheets of paper per weekSian Shaw (Westminster Abbey)<h3>14.45 Session 4: Innovation</h3>Balancing enhancement, innovation and inventionKatherine Woollard (National Trust)Artificial intelligence and machine learning for the analysis and enrichment of digital collectionsMartin Lorenz (Navigating.art)Towards inclusive digital museum innovation: theoretical and practical issues around the digital transformation of museumsRaffaella Cecilia (UCL), Theano Moussouri (UCL), Young Yim Doh (KAIST), Juhee Park (KAIST), Seyeon Lee (KAIST), Ellen Pavey (UCL), Chenxing Zhao (UCL), Karam Eum (KAIST)<h3>15.30 Break</h3><h3>16.00 Closing panel</h3>Funding digital – what two years worth of data tells usChris Unitt (One Further), Mike Keating (Art Fund), Sarah Briggs (Museums Association), Georgina Brooke (One Further)<h3>16.50 Closing address</h3><h3>17.00 Networking drinks</h3>

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