The Australian Centre for the Moving Image gets collaborative by opening office doors to Melbourne’s creative community with a 60-seat spaceWhen the Australian Centre for the Moving Image opened its doors in Melbourne 13 years ago,it couldn’t be known how ubiquitous the moving image would become. What does a museum that celebrates the moving image do in an era of smartphones, YouTube and Instagram, and when every teenager on Twitter becomes a curator and previously hard-to-come-by film and sound recordings are now just a few clicks away?For the director and chief executive of Acmi,Katrina Sedgwick, the current state of play means museums – as large cultural institutions, and well-funded and well-resourced – must expand to “co-creation”. Related: Coffee shop,domestic, co-working space … Where’s the most productive state to work? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com