New Directions in Interactive Media: Installation and Symposium—Panel 1

Join us for a special event with the thinkers and creators behind interactive, digital content in museums, archives, and the broader cultural sector. This program also celebrates The Concerned Camera: Unwavering Vision #3: 5,000 Images of Social and Cultural Change and Anne Morgan: Photography and Advocacy, a new interactive multimedia installation by Alan Govenar, Jean-Michel Sanchez, and Julien Roger, produced by Documentary Arts in association with on-situ, on view at the ICP Museum.

Panel I: Museums, Cultural Institutions, and Digital Culture

Panel discussion with Susan Chun, Chief Content Officer, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Erin Fleming, Content Producer, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Executive Producer of SFMOMA’s award-winning podcast, Raw Material; Carolyn Royston, Chief Experience Officer, Cooper Hewitt Museum; JiaJia Fei, Director of Digital at the Jewish Museum

Bios

Susan Chun is chief content officer at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where her team—the Design, Publishing, and New Media group—tells the museum’s stories in print and digital media. She has worked at the Philadelphia Museum, Alfred A. Knopf, Asia Society, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she managed the museum's scholarly publishing program, served as editorial advisor for the launch of metmuseum.org, and helped plan its award-winning Timeline of Art History. Chun has led pioneering multi-institutional museum technology projects including Steve: The Museum Social Tagging Project; Project Audience, a Mellon-funded collaboration of arts organizations; and Coyote, an accessibility and visual description initiative.

JiaJia Fei is a digital strategist with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of digital marketing, branding, web, mobile, and social media content strategy for art and culture—making museums and cultural organizations more accessible through technology. She currently serves as the director of digital at the Jewish Museum in New York City. Previously, she served as associate director, digital marketing at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, bringing modern and contemporary art to a global online audience through award-winning digital initiatives.

Erin Fleming is a content producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  She is a member of the museum’s Interpretive Media team, and the Executive Producer of the museum’s award-winning podcast, Raw Material.

Carolyn Royston joined the Cooper Hewitt Museum in 2018 as chief experience officer, a new role that weaves the digital and physical experience together to create an integrated visitor experience. She has previously served as director of digital at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, head of digital at Imperial War Museums, and as project director of the National Museums Online Learning Project based at the Victoria & Albert Museum. In 2017, she was a Getty Leadership Institute Fellow and President of Museum Computer Network.