Refinery29 recently featured Erica Gangsei, SFMOMA’s manager of interpretive media, for a feature on the “Coolest Jobs in SF.” Read the article for a behind-the-scenes look at Gangsei’s pretty neat job.

Excerpt: 

If someone said they want to do what you’re doing, what advice would you give them?
 

I have no idea, but if I had to, I guess I would say ‘just do you.’ Do the best that you can where you are until something slightly more interesting or fulfilling comes along. Then repeat. I recently read that Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, ‘If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.’” 

As part of ArtGameLab we’ve got a Game Design station!  Visitors have been cooking up all kinds of games for you to play, from holographic zombie chase games to murder mysteries. 

My personal fave visitor submission is “mind games” with your significant other. It raises a question I love to ask – in what ways are we already playing a game inside the museum (and in LIFE!) What are the rules, the objectives and what does #WINNING look like?

Anyway, enough meta-talk for now.  The show’s up til August 12.  Come on down to play a game…or invent one!

Play on!

- Erica Gangsei, Manager of Interpretive Media

A few more visitor submissions from the game design station:

Is life a game? The #ArtGameLab panel @SFMOMA last night turned up a sea of provocative questions. Check out the archived Twitter discussion HERE.

(via Instagram)

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The Institute, A Documentary About the Games of Nonchalance

Spin-off version of The Games of Nonchalance now on view at SFMOMA!

via ArtGameLab and @vossbrink, it’s a Super Going mission! Have you played a game in SFMOMA yet?

(by rlnv)

Amazingly nice words from the folks at Bloginity in their review of ArtGameLab:

Reflecting the Bay Area’s renown for pioneering new technologies and ways of thinking, SFMOMA is widely acknowledged as a leader among museums worldwide for using innovative means to engage audiences of all ages, both on site and online. From its original website—one of the first launched by a U.S. art museum—and prizewinning interpretive CD-ROMS of the 1990s to its innovative podcasts and multimedia gallery tours of the 2000s, SFMOMA has consistently forged new models for museum education by developing in-house expertise in a diverse range of tools that enhance public understanding of modern and contemporary art.

(via SFMOMA Gets Its Game On with ArtGameLab)

Have you completed any Super Going missions yet?! You can play at SFMOMA (as part of ArtGameLab) or at home. Why not try this egg artwork challenge? It’s inspired by Nam June Paik’s Egg Grows. If you complete this challenge, document and share on Tumblr w/ the tag #ArtGameLab so we can reblog you! :)

ArtGameLab gamers take a break in our giant block castle. Lookin’ good, y’all.

“Damn,” I thought silently as I opened the envelope from The Curious Scholarship of Dr. Bedcannon. It’s going to be embarrassing if I can’t figure out what to do next…

(via thachr = Playing in the Museum)