MCN 2024

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MCN 2024

5:00pm CDT

Conference Registration and Badge Pick-Up Abe and Jake's Landing Ignite Reception Abe and Jake's LandingAmy Jiao • Joe Hobson • Jessica Warchall • Jamie Lawyer • Marina Gross-Hoy • Brett Renfer • Jasmine Patel

8:30am CDT

Registration Jayhawk Welcome Center - Lower Lobby Community Partner Forum Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - All-American Room

9:15am CDT

Opening Remarks Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room A and B

10:15am CDT

MoMA’s Visitor Guide: Building a digital product to assist in discovery, wayfinding, and interpretation." Adams Alumni Center, 2nd Floor - Bruckmiller RoomStephanie Schapowal • Madhav Tankha Algorithms & Artifacts: Deciphering AI’s Role in Museums Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room A and BJessica Herczeg-Konecny • Jonathan Munar • Uma Nair Digital Content Types: How do you define, inventory, and measure impact of “digital"? Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Paul Adams LoungeCrystal Sanchez • Ryan King Speed Networking Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Summerfield Room

10:40am CDT

Building an App-based Museum: CalMigration and Migrant Footsteps Adams Alumni Center, 2nd Floor - Bruckmiller RoomKaty Long • Gabrielle Santas

11:15am CDT

A Speculative Leap into the Future of Museum Workplace Well-being Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Summerfield RoomIsabella Bruno • Rachel Ropeik Clicking Refresh: Website Redesign as Institutional Reintroduction Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Paul Adams LoungeAlyssa Machida • Mel Tamporello • Matthew MacArthur • Barry Joseph • Emily Cain • Kevin McDonald Process, Progress, and Pitfalls in Website Accessibility Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room A and BAnders Pollack • Jason Corum

11:40am CDT

Nature-Inspired Digital Games: Developed through a Collaborative Museum-University Partnership Adams Alumni Center, 2nd Floor - Bruckmiller RoomMiranda Kerr

12:00pm CDT

1:15pm CDT

A Quire Case Study: Celebrating Non-Technical People Doing Technical Things Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room AErin Cecele Dunigan • Ruth Evans Lane Lessons in innovation: behind the scenes of tech success Adams Alumni Center, 2nd Floor - Bruckmiller RoomNeil Hawkins From Idea to Implementation: Case Studies in Digital Planning at University Art Museums Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room BChad Weinard • Ryan Waggoner • Jennifer Talbott What is a new ideal #musetech syllabus now? Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Summerfield RoomMara Kurlandsky • Max Evjen

1:40pm CDT

Generative systems and the "content deficit" Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room AAaron Straup Cope Lessons From a Decoupled Migration: Gilcrease Museum Online Collections Goes Headless! Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Paul Adams LoungeJoseph Carriger

2:15pm CDT

Grounding Indigenous Rights in Redesigning Newfields' Online Collections Adams Alumni Center, 2nd Floor - Bruckmiller RoomAnne M. Young Innovating Access: Experiential Learning at the Crossroads of Art and AI Technology Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room AMiloslava Hruba Show Off Your Stack: Approaches to Building and Documenting Systems that Work Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room BAaron Straup Cope • Ronald Czik • Tyson Wilday • Andrea Ledesma

2:40pm CDT

Augmented play: Empowering Young Audiences with Immersive Technologies in Museums Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room AMarc Barto • Kathryn Box Sustaining Access to Feminist Art: The Judy Chicago Research Portal Adams Alumni Center, 2nd Floor - Bruckmiller RoomForough Yazdanpanah

3:15pm CDT

AI for Breakthrough Visitor Insights: Practical Applications Now While Envisioning the Future Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room BPaula Lynn • Samantha Niese • Keith Krut • Adam Purvis • Rachel Wolff • Julia Demarest Let's Get Phygital : Combining Physical and Digital Interfaces in Museum Games Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room AChris Evans • Kellian Pletcher Restorative Design at the Kansas City Museum Adams Alumni Center, 2nd Floor - Bruckmiller RoomGlenn North • Anna Marie Tutera • Taiwo Demola • Helen Niu • Jessica Lautin

4:30pm CDT

Evening Reception Jawyhawk Welcome Center, Spencer Museum of Art, KU Natural History Museum

8:30am CDT

Community Partner Forum Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - All-American Room

9:00am CDT

SIG Coffee + Birds of a Feather Adams Alumni Center, 2nd Floor - Bruckmiller Room

9:15am CDT

Now In Session: DIY Audio for All Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room A and BChad Curtis • Julie Lee • Jonathan Munar

10:15am CDT

A Graphic (Novel) History: Representation and Resistance Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room AAnthony DeRita • Reese Patillo Adopting a Data-Driven Strategy: Insights from Emerging Digital Innovation Journeys of Two Art Museums Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room BKevin Kane • Patrick Fox • Heiker Medina • Melissa Dean Digital First, Community Focused: A Strategic Framework for Audience Engagement Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Paul Adams LoungeSara Snyder • Rachel Ginsberg • Jasmine Patel • Nicole Kang Ferraiolo • Elizabeth Harmon Speed Networking Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Summerfield Room

11:15am CDT

There and Back Again: Collaboration and Digitization Go Where Few Can Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room BJane Alexander • Haley Kedziora TikTok, Time's Up: Now What? Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room ALexi Simms When New Mexico Gave Land Back - Here’s What Happened Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Summerfield RoomLauren Addario • Emily Lynn Clark • Marlene Tsosie Bad Warrior • Destiny Zukevich • Carlyn Stewart No Finish Line: Embedding CRM Optimization Into Your Project from Preflight to Infinity Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Paul Adams LoungeYvonne Lee • Jen Holmes • Trenton Platt

11:40am CDT

Expanding ARCH: Advancing Computational Research with Museum Collections Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room BKarl Blumenthal Responsive Way-finding for a 300-Acre Historic Site Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room ABecca Lee Sharp

12:00pm CDT

1:15pm CDT

Maximizing engagement with fin-tastic weeklong content campaigns: Insights from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room AKrysta Higuchi • Christine Lacayo Women in Museum Computing: Perspectives on Transformative Data Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Paul Adams LoungeAlexandria Rayburn New Frontiers in Digital Art: The Maintenance Culture Field Guide for Preservation Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Summerfield RoomEddy Colloton • Frances Harrell One Collection to Rule Them All Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room BAlyssa Machida • Neil Hawkins

1:40pm CDT

Breaking the silos –exploring new technology and innovative solutions to create new spaces for engaging new audiences. Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room ATorill Haugen Live Digital Painting: Unbound Imagination Adams Alumni Center, 1st Floor - Paul Adams LoungeLevi Smith

2:15pm CDT

Above the Clouds: Integrating Machine Learning, Virtual Reality and Immersive Technologies into the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room AChad Hutson • Chris Riebschlager Bringing the Future of Accessibility Forward with AI-Assisted Image Descriptions Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room BAdam Purvis • Brett Renfer • Julia Demarest • Mark Osterman • Samuel Thompson

2:40pm CDT

Virtual Woodworking Studio: How to Create an Interactive Pilot for an Experimental Gallery Space While Your Museum is Expanding (Physically and Digitally) Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room AKimberly Lý

3:15pm CDT

Closing Remarks Jayhawk Welcome Center, 2nd Floor - Berkley Presentation Room A and B