Outline:

Overview of project

    Why this project/the class

    The goals were:        

     1. Visitors will add their voice to the exhibition by adding words to the sequence.

     2. Visitors will contribute to connections by participating in a continuous photographic record.

     3. The majority of participants will take the Flickr URL with them.

     4. Visitors will visit the Flickr site to see how their word connects to others and see how other visitor's contributed.  

Evaluation methods

     observation - tallied visitors by eaches or groups

     paper and pen clipboard, no interviews, unobtrusive

     tallied - interaction level and attitude

     mainly relied on photo count for definite participation number

Findings (excel graphs - but only participation)

     overall attendance - low on Sunday but we still had 25 participants. (Super Bowl)

     Limitation - Lots of museum studies students and friends and family - people who were there because we asked

          think about who each of us brought in.

               chris - brought 4 pictures, in 3 pictures

               rose - brough in X pictures, was in X pictures

               rachel - brought in X pictures, in X pictures

               alicia - brought in 0 pictures, in 2 pictures

               X museology students and staff - kris, maya, we only know of 1st years for sure...

     our data that was collected - what was purpose of other categories?

     our photos - differing counts

Discussion

     what worked.  

          magnets were attractive/familiar to people

          moving screen of images was attractive

          different way of learning what was going on - more people seemed to learn best by watching a) others B) flicker stream c) instructions

     what didn't

          had to be heavily facilitated

          physically moving letters was cumbersome

          paint was weak

          words read "backwards" from right to left - people may have had difficulty when seeing actual set up.  then understood more when saw flickr.     

          people still may not have "gotten" the idea

          people still seemed to be nervous/shy or not inspired or not wanting to be participatory that day.

          camera looked formal

          tucked away space may have been intimidating

     <issues> with working in the henry's space / art clients or sponsors

          be careful - everyone wants to touch him

          communication needed more time - took a while to straighten things out.

          they had information but wasn't processed til last minute

          short time frame - development was compressed - 4 weeks.

     what would do different

          some things.