Mar Dixon
area: Digital, Social Art
Key Facts
nationality
USAarea
Digital, Social Artresidence
Bridgnorth (GBR)recommending institution
eSeL REZEPTIONtime period
November 2015 - November 2015Follow Mar Dixon on Twitter:
@Mar_Dixon #AskACurator
Mar Dixon, creator of many projects such as MusoemixUK and MuseumCamp, has fingers in many pies including culture, digital, publishing, wearables and tech sectors. She is driving force behind the acclaimed and world trending campaigns including #MuseumSelfie, #AskACurator, #MuseumWeek, #LoveTheatre. Mar speaks at many international conferences in addition to running workshops from small business to national museums and everything in between.
"You can't keep talking about yourself. It's not social."
Mar Dixon is a consultant in social media and audience development, who is working with the big cultural institutions in the world. She is the founder of @CultureThemes, Teens in Museums and MuseumCamp. We met the Artist-in-Residence at Q21 in her studio to talk about Viennese people's difficulties with sharing ideas and building communities. And she gets straight to the point: We want content! And museums aren’t giving us that.
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