{"id":1514,"date":"2011-08-30T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2011\/08\/engagement_vs_distraction\/"},"modified":"2011-08-30T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:13:00","slug":"engagement_vs_distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/engagement_vs_distraction.php","title":{"rendered":"Engagement vs. distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just catching up on Nina Simon&#8217;s Museum 2.0 blog, and discovering <a href=\"http:\/\/museumtwo.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/engagement-distraction-and-puzzle-of.html\">this great post<\/a> about a primary tension in exhibit space design. After consulting and writing for a long while, Nina is now &#8216;on the ground&#8217; as&nbsp;Executive Director of The Museum of Art &amp; History in Santa Cruz, where she is bringing her innovative spirit to the life of a small arts organization.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At issue is the museum&#8217;s new &#8216;creativity lounge,&#8217; a space within an exhibit hall that invites relaxation and self-directed reading or the like. The space also includes a jigsaw puzzle, which has proven a hit with visitors, but a point of tension with the artist who&#8217;s work is in the room. To Nina, the puzzle is a relevant point of connection for people in the space. For the artist, the puzzle is a distraction &#8212; far enough off topic from the exhibition to be distracting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The interchange is well worth a reading. Evolving practices that make the art PART of the experience but not always the focus of the experience will inevitably bring more discussion like this.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just catching up on Nina Simon&#8217;s Museum 2.0 blog, and discovering this great post about a primary tension in exhibit space design. After consulting and writing for a long while, Nina is now &#8216;on the ground&#8217; as&nbsp;Executive Director of The Museum of Art &amp; History in Santa Cruz, where she is bringing her innovative spirit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}