Podcasts & Interviews — AMT Lab @ CMU

Jackie Shimshoni

Technology in the Arts Education Space: A Conversation with Russell Granet, Executive Director of Lincoln Center Education

Technology in the Arts Education Space: A Conversation with Russell Granet, Executive Director of Lincoln Center Education

On April 24, 2015, AMT Lab Contributor Jackie Shimshoni interviewed Russell Granet, Executive Director of Lincoln Center Education.  In the interview, Granet discussed arts and technology at the Lincoln Center, and the role technology has played in educating audiences about their wide array of programing. He also offered valuable insight for arts managers in both performing and visual organizations who may wish to enhance their own educational offerings.

Productive Talk and the Digital Arts Conversation : An Interview with Lynne Conner

Recently AMT Lab Contributor Stewart Urist sat down to talk with Lynne Conner, a professor at Colby College and author of the book Audience Engagement and the Role of Arts Talk in the Digital Era.  What followed was a rousing conversation about her book as well as the idea of meaningful audience engagement and how arts organizations are--and are not--doing this correctly.

What Arts Managers Can Learn From Pittsburgh’s Gulf Tower Project

What Arts Managers Can Learn From Pittsburgh’s Gulf Tower Project

On February 11-13, 2015, the Carnegie Museum of Art marketed their newest exhibition, Antoine Catala’s Distant Feel, in an innovative way: by transforming Pittsburgh’s Gulf Tower into a “mood ring”.  For three nights the tower displayed the average mood of the city as determined by Pittsburgh's Instagram activity. AMT Lab Correspondent Jackie Shimshoni interviewed Brad Stephenson and David Newbury to learn what insights this project offered arts managers.