What if you could walk into a museum and, instead of following the usual tours or visiting the usual rooms arranged by culture or time period, you could reshape the museum to fit your needs and desires?
What if you could extend the art viewing experience across genres and mediums, connecting individual works with poetry, music, film, activities, and other forms of popular culture?
What if someone newly in love could rearrange the collection to focus on love? What if someone in need of consolation could find a museum just for that purpose? What if we could take our confusion or joy or anger and find art that speaks to the ways we’re feeling?
We can.
The Infinite Museum, a Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry Seminar happening during the fall 2014 semester at Ball State University, will test a new model for what the museum experience can be, creating a more interactive, exploratory, and revelatory model of engagement with art. The tools we’ll create as part of this immersive learning experience will help museum visitors engage with art in ways that will be both culturally and, we hope, personally, revealing, turning each visit into a kind of performance art, a unique creation rich with meaning.
The Infinite Museum seeks to reinvent the museum experience in radical ways. The project team will design a wide range of creative interactions, intersections, tours, encounters, interventions and experiences for visitors to the David Owsley Museum of Art here at Ball State. We’ll gather information from people in a wide range of fields, disciplines, and walks of life, seeking to see the museum’s collection in new and exciting ways. We’ll work closely with the Owsley Museum’s collection and its staff, connecting the art and artifacts with each other and with a wide range of things and ideas from all over the world. We’ll produce a variety of visitor materials, including a website with activities for museum visitors on it, a book for publication, and materials for visitors to use in the museum. We may also do some traveling to other museums to gather ideas and inspiration.
If this sounds exciting to you, I invite you to apply to join us for this immersive learning experience.
In a Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry Seminar students are co-investigators with the faculty member. We work together researching and creating and producing. If accepted into the seminar, this will be the only class you’ll take during the semester. You’ll earn 15 credit hours that we’ll arrange on a personal basis to help you meet your graduation requirements. The seminar meets in the Kitselman Center, a historic mansion west of Tillotson Avenue but within easy biking or driving distance of Ball State’s main campus.
We need people from a range of fields but more important than your major is your ability to think in unique, creative ways, to pull odd things together, to examine things critically and to see connections where others have not. We need people with writing, art, design, visual communication, analysis, research, and other critical thinking skills.
You'll come away from the experience with new insights, new friends, new ways of experiencing art, and valuable life and job skills.
Interested? Contact Professor Timothy Berg at [email protected] for more information.
To apply, please click the Application Process link at the top of the page.
What if you could extend the art viewing experience across genres and mediums, connecting individual works with poetry, music, film, activities, and other forms of popular culture?
What if someone newly in love could rearrange the collection to focus on love? What if someone in need of consolation could find a museum just for that purpose? What if we could take our confusion or joy or anger and find art that speaks to the ways we’re feeling?
We can.
The Infinite Museum, a Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry Seminar happening during the fall 2014 semester at Ball State University, will test a new model for what the museum experience can be, creating a more interactive, exploratory, and revelatory model of engagement with art. The tools we’ll create as part of this immersive learning experience will help museum visitors engage with art in ways that will be both culturally and, we hope, personally, revealing, turning each visit into a kind of performance art, a unique creation rich with meaning.
The Infinite Museum seeks to reinvent the museum experience in radical ways. The project team will design a wide range of creative interactions, intersections, tours, encounters, interventions and experiences for visitors to the David Owsley Museum of Art here at Ball State. We’ll gather information from people in a wide range of fields, disciplines, and walks of life, seeking to see the museum’s collection in new and exciting ways. We’ll work closely with the Owsley Museum’s collection and its staff, connecting the art and artifacts with each other and with a wide range of things and ideas from all over the world. We’ll produce a variety of visitor materials, including a website with activities for museum visitors on it, a book for publication, and materials for visitors to use in the museum. We may also do some traveling to other museums to gather ideas and inspiration.
If this sounds exciting to you, I invite you to apply to join us for this immersive learning experience.
In a Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry Seminar students are co-investigators with the faculty member. We work together researching and creating and producing. If accepted into the seminar, this will be the only class you’ll take during the semester. You’ll earn 15 credit hours that we’ll arrange on a personal basis to help you meet your graduation requirements. The seminar meets in the Kitselman Center, a historic mansion west of Tillotson Avenue but within easy biking or driving distance of Ball State’s main campus.
We need people from a range of fields but more important than your major is your ability to think in unique, creative ways, to pull odd things together, to examine things critically and to see connections where others have not. We need people with writing, art, design, visual communication, analysis, research, and other critical thinking skills.
You'll come away from the experience with new insights, new friends, new ways of experiencing art, and valuable life and job skills.
Interested? Contact Professor Timothy Berg at [email protected] for more information.
To apply, please click the Application Process link at the top of the page.