Lecture
Museum Talk: The Future Museum: Digital Replicas, Virtual Reality and Storytelling for a New Audience
- Kel O'Neill (Director and Producer Jongsma + O'Neill)
- Date
- Wednesday 22 November 2023
- Time
- Series
- Museum Talks at the Leiden Department of Art History
- Location
- Academy Building (Telders auditory), livestream available on this page
The Future Museum: Digital Replicas, Virtual Reality and Storytelling for a New Audience
Kel O'Neill (Director and Producer Jongsma + O'Neill)
With an introduction by Liselore Tissen
How can European museums reckon with the crimes and misuses of power that built their collections? And what will those museums look like once the scales have been balanced and restitution claims have been honored?
These are the animating questions behind Loot —10 Stories, an innovative new exhibition from The Mauritshuis that uses cutting-edge storytelling techniques to address the topics of looted art and restitution.
In this talk, Loot — 10 Stories Guest Curator and Creative Lead Kel O'Neill discusses the journey that he went through to bring the exhibition from concept to execution.
About the speaker
The creative studio Jongsma + O'Neill uses cutting-edge storytelling to explore history’s impact on contemporary society. Their Emmy-nominated, Webby-honored immersive works and documentaries screen at world-renowned venues including Tribeca, SXSW, The New York Film Festival, and Rencontres d’Arles. They’ve received fellowships from the Sundance Institute, the Eisenhower Fellowships and the Economist Media Lab, and won the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award and the IDFA DocLab Special Jury Award for Creative Technology.
