Week 8

Todays class was all about exhibition, how we present ourself and work. Paul talked to us for a bit on what people want and what their preferences are. People prefer to be able to interact with things, they like it when everything can be easily accessed, when theres a relevance to them and a personal engagement with them. Thats in order of importance as well. This means when ever I make my own personal space online for my work or for pleasure that it crucial at it not in deepest hard to find areas of the internet, thankfully with social media be the powerhouse that is you can link just about anything to your Twitter handle or your Facebook. This enables you to direct attention to your website a whole lot easier, although it doesn't make it easier get the attention it will everything more accessible. This relates to what Paul was saying about your community of geography is smaller than your community of interest, which means there are more people that share the same interests than you, than there are people in your local community. Which me basically means to me if you want to advertise yourself do it online, unless your providing a service for people in your local community then of course advertise locally.

Paul then moved on to start talking about Museums and in the modern world they seem to be struggling and less people want to go and visit them. He explains that this is due to a lack evolving throughout the years, stay to the same mentality white walls, wide open spaces and it just appeal to people anymore. Paul wanted to show us some museums that have decided to break the mold. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Abba: The Museum in Stockholm and Science gallery dublin. The one that stood out the most to me was the Abba: The Museum because they tried to make going to it like a day out and make it no necessarily feel like a museum. Paul said it ironic and it knows its crap which I found funny because it is a museum that knows museum are crap, so it makes it a different type of crap and people start going. They know what they are doing they are making the experience fun and not so serious. Not only that at the end you can get a recording of your day there so you get personal momento of your day there, doesn't museum I have been too before.

At the end of the class Paul talked about a piece of performance art that he was apart of. He got inspiration from Japanese water fountains that acted as signs. He got Seamus Deane an Irish poet, to them a poem and then had James Nesbitt read it out while being filmed by a hacked xbox kinetic camera which gave the footage a cool effect. To be completely honest there was so much going on I didn't know what to make of it, I couldn't really correlate and opinion of it.