SJMA is a leading showcase in the Bay Area for modern and contemporary art. The Museum has earned a reputation for its fresh, distinctive exhibitions, which are conceived to engage Museum visitors of various ages and cultural backgrounds. Through its exhibitions and programs, SJMA addresses major trends in international contemporary art, architecture, and design, with an ongoing commitment to also place the work of California artists in national and international context.
Digital technologies provide new ways of sharing stories and inviting participation through transparent open access. In the coming years we will continue to work to increase operational transparency and access to the museum’s fascinating collection.
In the digital age, it is vital that museums are able to share information in standardized and accessible formats. SJMA works to make all known information about the museum and its collection readily available. Tactics employed for increasing institutional transparency may include the implementation of a communication strategy highlighting behind-the-scenes activity, or an open call for digital users to provide feedback and information about objects in the museum’s collection or programming at the museum.
Barriers to access impacts every point along the user/visitor journey, from purchasing tickets to viewing collection objects online to participating in a dialogue with museum staff. Digital technologies are essential tools for addressing and eliminating barriers wherever possible. SJMA designs the digital experience around accessibility with the goal of providing experiences that are available for anyone who desires them, regardless of background or ability.
SJMA embraces an open source ethos and commits to deploying initiatives on open frameworks and according to standard protocols. This allows the museum to operate rapidly and participate in the broader community dialogue that surrounds open source frameworks.
Digital publishing, for example, is a catalyst for expanding the reach of the museum’s educational resources. Older models of museum printed scholarship are designed to be self-contained objects, whereas new models of fluid multimedia content published to the worldwide web foster innovation in scholarly production and also in the design of interfaces that allow readers to interact with, use, and share content in unprecedented ways. SJMA is actively experimenting with the tools of digital publishing because of this capacity to engage and cultivate diverse knowledge communities via the public internet near and far.
SJMA joins other reputable and forward-thinking institutions with public service missions who have expressed a bold commitment to the open and broad dissemination of collections, resources, and scholarship motivated by problems of social inequality caused by restricting access to knowledge production and exchange.
The following are projects initiated or deployed between 2015 and 2019 that exemplify the Narratives and Access strategy outlined above:
The following are anticipated projects that are on-going or will be deployed between 2020-2021 that exemplify the Experiences and Engagement strategy outlined above:
The following future projects exemplify the Experiences and Engagement strategy outlined above and will be pursued after 2021:
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