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Lessons for the future of online engagement with culture

Culture Online has pioneered a project-based approach to bring new audiences to arts and culture using new technology. In this it differs significantly from the portal approach of many cultural websites. Demos is working with Culture Online to place their achievement in a wider context of policy development, and to articulate lessons for practitioners and policymakers.

Cultural Revolution in the 1990s

Posted by Samuel Jones at 10:03am on Tuesday, 7th November 2006

I recently came across a quote that has real relevance to the work we are doing here.  It comes from Paul Werner, the former Guggenheim curator, turned critic. 

‘By the mid-nineties museum directors had figured out along with the rest of us that the worldwide system of production had radically changed with the advent of the PC, then the Internet, but no one had begun to figure out how the relations of production were changing.  It wasn’t that more information was available (which everybody knew) but that people would now process information in new way which in turn would modify their needs and how they met them’

 Paul Werner, Museum, Inc: Inside the Global Art World, (Chicago, 2005), 25

You can read more about Werner and Museum, Inc here.

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