Becoming American is a project for the 2022 Whitney Biennial that includes a technical intervention across all of whitney.org, where visitors are prompted with questions from the US citizenship test.
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Stepping into open access
Blog post about the Whitney’s first open access data release.
Sunrise/Sunset and letting artists take over the museum
Blog post about Sunrise/Sunset, and letting artists do what they want with whitney.org.
michaelbot.website
Q: what is michaelbot?
A: square adjust placement and save each one alone or something Holy cow I love it
(michaelbot is a TensorFlow ML model served by Flask, trained on texts parsed from iMessage, that crashes a lot on an undersized server)
Relaunching the Whitney’s Online Collection…again
Blog post about updating the API that feeds the Whitney’s online collection.
QR Codes: Alive and Well in the Museum?
Blog post about the Whitney Museum’s use of QR codes as an entry point into interpretive materials.
Relaunching Softly: the Whitney’s Online Collection
Blog post about developing and quietly launching a new and improved version of the Whitney’s online collection.
The Whitney’s Mobile Guide
Blog post written by Sofie Andersen on a Progressive Web App we developed to replace our existing audio guides, and align the online experience with the in-person one.
Dimensions of Museum Data
Blog post on Whitney Digital covering some of the ways we look at our online exhibition data, and single question surveys.
Understanding our audiences: The Whitney’s Website Visitor Survey and its broader context
I was part of a presentation at MCN 2018 on a visitor motivation survey (VMS) we ran on whitney.org. As a group we covered the context of motivation-based surveys at museums and some key learnings for the Whitney, both in results and in strategy.