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BROOKLYN MUSEUM OFFERS OPEN CALL TO CURATING ART EXHIBITION MARCH 1

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BROOKLYN, N.Y. — “Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition” is a photography installation that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community and the public to participate in the exhibition process. The installation will be on view June 27–August 10 at the Brooklyn Museum.

“Click!” includes three consecutive parts. It begins with an open call — artists are asked to electronically submit a work of photography that responds to the exhibition’s theme, “Changing Faces of Brooklyn,” along with an artist statement. The open call is scheduled from March 1 to 31.

Taking its inspiration from the acclaimed book The Wisdom of Crowds, in which New Yorker business and financial columnist James Surowiecki asserts that a diverse crowd is often wiser at making decisions than expert individuals, “Click!” explores whether Surowiecki’s premise can be applied to the visual arts — is a diverse crowd just as “wise” at evaluating art as the trained experts?

After the conclusion of the open call, an online forum opens for audience evaluation of all submissions; as in other juried exhibitions, all works will be anonymous. The online forum will be April 1–May 23.

“Click!” culminates in an exhibition at the museum, where the photographs will be installed according to their relative ranking from the juried process. Visitors will also be able to see how different groups within the crowd evaluated the same works of art. The results will be analyzed and discussed by experts in the fields of art, online communities and crowd theory. “Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition” is organized by Shelley Bernstein, manager of information systems, Brooklyn Museum.

Brooklyn Museum is at 200 Easter Parkway. For information, 718-638-5000 or www.brooklynmuseum.org.