Holla at an Art Mob

“Art Mobs” is a project designed by students in Dr. David Gilbert’s Organizational Communication course at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. For Spring Semester, Gilbert’s students have produced unofficial audio guides for the Museum of Modern Art and made them available on the Web as podcasts. They are inviting the public to submit homemade audio guides to their podcast feed, which the students hope to make a permanent distribution system for audio guides that anyone can produce, share, transfer to an iPod or other MP3 player and take into MoMA. (From the "Art Mobs" Press Release)

I had a fun time while being involved in the "Art Mobs" assignment. Though the work was spead out between the whole class, I managed to put a finger on a part of the project even if it wasn't much. I helped in the brainstorming of ideas. We came up with so many different ideas for the podcasts. One was to have the posdcast in the form of a radio talk show complete with "on air" interviews with the "artists" and with certain celebrities like Paris Hilton and Star Jones. We also thought of the idea of having the podcast in the form of a "family fued" type game show. These were fun ideas, however the best idea triumphed over all and now you may experience the "Art Mobs" at my class' Org Comm Website. I also helped in the publicizing the "Art Mobs" opening event by handing out flyers at school and at my job. Yay!