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1 ©WolfBrown 2012 Making Sense of Audience Engagement National Arts Marketing Project Conference, Nov. 11, 2012 Alan Brown, Rebecca Ratzkin, Ryan French, David Tang

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1 ©WolfBrown 2012

Making Sense

of Audience

Engagement National Arts Marketing Project

Conference, Nov. 11, 2012

Alan Brown, Rebecca Ratzkin, Ryan

French, David Tang

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Agenda

•Overview of Audience Engagement principles

•The view of practitioners

Ryan French, Walker Art Center

David Tang, music director

•Q&A

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New Focus on Engagement

• Key dimension of segmentation research

• Controversial aspects deserve more debate

• What is “good practice”? How do we know if

we’ve “engaged” someone?

• How much engagement is enough?

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Engagement is both consumer-driven and

mission-driven

•Demand for more intense, multi-sensory

experiences

•Expectations for interactivity and

interconnectivity

•Desire to customize one’s experience

•Desire for social and kinetic experiences

•Artists’ desire for more interactive and symbiotic

relationships with audiences

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A period of accelerated

experimentation and

adoption of practice.

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Arc of Engagement

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Build-Up and Contextualization

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Build-Up and Contextualization

•Website-based contextual videos (e.g., artist

interviews)

•YouTube channels

•Synopses sent to patrons in advance

•Blogs (e.g., Malmo Opera)

Transmitting “curatorial insight”

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Thomas Wickell, Malmo Opera

http://vimeo.com/23553859

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Period of Intense Preparation

How can you take advantage of the “hot

spot” right before the event?

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Period of Intense Preparation

•Pre-performance talks

•Lobby information

•Media-rich emails send 24-hours in advance

•Reading program notes at the venue

•Podcasts

•What information do you INSIST that

your audiences absorb before the show

starts?

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Artistic Exchange

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Artistic Exchange

Short introductions from the stage

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Artistic Exchange

Visual Enhancements at orchestra concerts

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Artistic Exchange

Interactive interpretive activities

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Artistic Exchange

Real-time interpretive

assistance via digital devices

Museum of Old and New Art

(MONA), Hobart, Tasmania

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Does art speak for itself, or

should we provide audiences

with more and more

interpretive assistance, and

allow them to photograph,

remix and react in real-time?

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Post-Processing and Meaning Making

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Post-Processing and Meaning-Making

•Lightly facilitated post-performance discussions

•Discussions with and without artists or experts

•Encouraging critical feedback (e.g., citizen

critics)

•Online forums, Facebook conversations, etc.

•Eliciting conversation outside of the venue

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Impact Echo

How can you help audiences to

memorialize and remember their

experiences?

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Six Audience Typologies

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Level of Interest in Engagement Activities

THE "BIG MIDDLE"

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Four Dimensions of

Engagement

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Summary

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Audience engagement is a

unifying philosophy bringing

together marketing, education

and artistic programming in

common service of maximizing

impact on audiences

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