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Transcript of Chris Michaels, ReMIX, Dec 14
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UNIVERSALTHE BRITISH MUSEUM AS MULTIPLATFORM STORYTELLER, IN 10 OBJECTS
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The universal story of living and dying.
OBJECT 1: GEBELEIN MAN (3500BC)
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A universal vision of a place for all* ‘studious and curious persons’.
*(Reality: Not quite all.)
OBJECT 2: ENTRY TICKET (1757)
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“A discovery so exciting that when the curator translated it, he took off his clothes.”
Understanding our role as a universal storyteller of shared histories.
OBJECT 3: FLOOD TABLET (650BC)
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Multiplatform storytelling of global scale, and not in the media you’d expect.*
(*Or, substance is viral.)
OBJECT 4: ‘A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS’, PODCAST (2010)
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The boundary collapses between the audience who visits, and the audience who will never visit.
OBJECT 5: IPHONE (2007)
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Mapping the relationship of people with people, with themselves and with objects, at scale.
OBJECT 6: LESTER WISBROD’S SELFIE COLLECTION (1981-PRESENT)
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The universal audience becomes available for the first time.
An Enlightenment vision becomes possible.
OBJECT 7: WIFI BALLOONS (2013)
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And now we start again, with the whole world in plain sight.
OBJECT 8: THE EMPTY PAGE (2014)
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And now the universal stories of how to live, and how to die, and how all of mankind came to be, can be told to all of mankind.*
(*We just have to figure out how to do it)
OBJECT 9: GEBELEIN MAN (3500BC)
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You are the path to that: as an audience, and as a path to audiences.
Help us.
OBJECT 10: YOU (2015)