Frye Art Museum

#SocialMedium

URL to IRL. It’s that thing where you an image and that painting goes in an exhibition. You are the curator.

This fall, the Frye Founding Collection is crowd-curated. The most Liked paintings are being shown in the galleries along with the names and comments of 4,468 people from around the globe who voted on social media for their favorite paintings.

#SocialMedium
October 4, 2014 – January 4, 2015

Virtual Tour / Take Part / Voting


Three ways to engage with the exhibition

Contribute to the audio tour. Use your mobile device to record up to three minutes of audio describing your thoughts on a painting.

  • Apple » Find your Voice Memo app
    Voice Memo
  • Android » Find your Voice Recorder app or download one
    Voice Recorder
  • When you've saved your final recording, share the audio file via email.
  • Questions: fryemuseum@gmail.com

Send your audio file to fryemuseum@gmail.com with your name and the title of the painting.

Listen to the audio tour below or on your mobile device at x.vu/socmedtour next time you visit the Frye.

Post to Instagram or Twitter mentioning #SocialMedium. Posts appear in real time on the monitor in the galleries.

@fryeartmuseum
Goodbye #SocialMedium , we will visit you online! Get ready for Jessika Kenney: Anchor Zero, installing now and open to the public Saturday, January 10!
@hellohinoelle
Civilization did a great job with the design of this Frye exhibit. Very cool! #socialmedium
@seekim_
#SocialMedium
@fryeartmuseum
You voted on #SocialMedium and now, no matter where you are in the world, you can visit the Frye and see the exhibition you curated! Take the virtual tour now: x.vu/fryevirtual
@evanmaeda
#socialmedium
@ianerichoffman
Great discussion panel on the #socialmedium and #internetart thanks Frye art museum!
@builtbycivilization
Tote bag for #SocialMedium available at @fryemuseumstore. Shot in front of a wall that lists the names of the show's 4,468 citizen curators. #fryeartmuseum #tote #icons #builtbycivilization
@noellelogan_
Sunday funday // cheesin' #socialmedium
@henry_contemporaries
museum stores with peacocks for sale, yes please. #upclose #SocialMedium @fryemuseumstore

Comment on your favorite paintings. Visit the URLs on the wall labels to read thoughts from others and contribute your own.

Between Monday, August 11, and Friday, August 22, 2014, photos of our paintings were posted across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr.

There are 232 paintings in the Founding Collection.
You decided which are in #SocialMedium.
You are the curator.

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