Keynote Presentation
Annual Meeting Keynote Address by Nina Simon
Thursday, November 4
9:00-10:30 am
Plaza Hotel Ballroom
Open to the general public and museum community; $5 for non-conference attendees
Nina Simon is a leader in new thinking about museums and visitor participation. She runs the blog Museum 2.0 (www.museumtwo.blogspot.com), a top online resource on museums, participatory design,and innovative technologies. The blog provides long-format and analytical articles about visitor participation in museums to an active community of about 20,000 monthly visitors. Nina is a passionate activist for the integration of social, dynamic, participatory experiences into museum practice, and she has shared this passion as a keynote speaker at museum and new media conferences in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
She is the author of the book The Participatory Museum (2010), and her writing has appeared in major museum magazines and journals including Museum, Museums and Social Issues, Exhibitionist and ASTC Dimensions. Nina sits on the board of the National Association of Museum Exhibitions (NAME). Before starting Museum 2.0, Nina served as curator at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA, where she led the creation of a new curatorial model in which exhibition design concepts were crowd-sourced and prototyped via a wiki and Second Life. From 2004-2007, Nina was the Experience Development Specialist for the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, focusing on creative design of the Operation Spy immersive experience. Nina also consults with The Electric Sheep Company, a virtual worlds experience design firm, and in 2007 she led the design of a multi-platform game that accompanied season 3 of the CBS television show CSI:NY.
Annual Meeting
2010 Keynote Speaker, Nina Simon
