Rapid Response Webinars

About Rapid Response Webinars

Rapid Response Webinars are made possible with the support from the Getty Foundation through its Connecting Professionals/Sharing Expertise initiative. Held at the end of the month and moderated by Board members based in different time zones and guests, RRW aim to provide short capsules on urgent concerns for the profession throughout the year.

CIMAM's 2024 Rapid Response Webinar Program

Discover the program of CIMAM's Rapid Response Webinars for this year's 2024, with contents that address urgent and current issues facing modern and contemporary art museums.

The Stupid Museum?

Thursday, 2 May 2024, at 11.30am (CET), Geneva - Switzerland, join this webinar to delve into the relationship between Museum & Science. Discovering how we can interact with data and create new spheres of study, research and education thanks to digital tools, technology and science should be part of our debate today. Consequences of AI.

Webinars's Working Group

The 2023–25 CIMAM Webinars Committee consists of four Board members of CIMAM: Malgorzata Ludwisiak (Chair), Kitty Scott, Yu Jin Seng, and Chus Martínez.

Rewilding the Museum.

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Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 13.30h CET (Central European Time) / 20.30h GMT+8 (Greenwich Mean Time). Join this webinar to imagine another “climate” inside the museum.

Indigenous Perspectives in Curatorial Practice for a Different Future

Thursday, 29 February 2024, at 9:30 am CST, Mexico City, join this webinar to delve into the intersection of curatorial practices and indigenous perspectives and explore strategies for facing a relevant demand in the museum field nowadays.

What topics would you like to see covered in CIMAM's Rapid Response Webinars?

We seek your valuable opinion on the topics you want to cover in the CIMAM webinar program. This will help us tailor the content to your professional requirements and allow you to suggest topics or issues that you would like to explore further and share with the CIMAM community worldwide to gain new perspectives and approaches.

Learning from eco-epistemologies: Overcoming museological symbolism of natural forms

Thursday 21 September 2023. This session explored embracing different entry points to nature and different ways of learning from nature. To seek to collaborate on a new institutional critique based on environmental humanities and patterns and insights from the natural world.

Dialogues on Best Museum Practices: Innovation, Sustainability, Relevance and Outreach

Thursday 29 June 2023. The CIMAM Award for Outstanding Museum Practice recognizes exceptional practices in modern and contemporary art museums across the globe. Join us for a conversation with the recipients of the 2022 Award!

Towards a Healthy Museum

31 May 2023. This webinar will check up on management concepts, matrixed organizations, and museum’s working practices and environments

Art & Advanced Technologies (AxAT) in museums programming: an overview of possible paths and possibilities

27 April 2023. This webinar will offer a focus on technologies such as NFT/crypto and museums beyond monetary speculation and fundraising i.e. the role of NFTs in cultural institutions and the implications and impact on museum practices, offering new points of view from museums, researchers, and artists.

How do modern and contemporary art museums act to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?

4 April 2023. This webinar explored the findings from the CIMAM 2022 survey, How do Modern and Contemporary Art Museums Act to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?, conducted among museums of modern and contemporary art museum professionals and curators worldwide on how museums operate in diverse cultural and socio-economic contexts to respond to the SDGs 2030 Agenda.

Towards a Shared Future: Indigenous Artists + Non-Indigenous Institutions

29 September 2022. While art institutions continue to be entangled in private, public, and political interests, today we desire to work together with Indigenous artists in relation to one another as equals, sharing resources, space, and responsibility, and to model structural change that celebrates multi-centred perspectives true to our own time.

Art is Good for You: Perspectives on Museums and Well-being

15 September 2022. Museums improve our quality of life and both mental and physical health. Dont miss CIMAM's upcoming Rapid Response webinar.

Bringing Context Back to the Debate: Museums in the Global South and the Challenges of an All-encompassing Agenda

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28 July 2022. This Rapid Response webinar seeks to foster a contextualized discussion on the role of so-called peripheral museums in this scenario. What are the contributions of South Asian, African, or Latin American collections for the debates on decolonization/restitution?

Growing up, reaching out, and reflecting

6 July 2022. As CIMAM is approaching the festive commemoration of its birthday during the coming Annual Conference with many members present, this webinar has been organized with museum directors and curators of modern and contemporary art from Asia, Latin America and Europe to discuss past, present and future of CIMAM with Board members and the audience.

Three Views of Digital Transformation

30 June 2022. In recent years, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic, museums and memory institutions made a significant switch to accelerate their use of digital content and new technologies.

Mobile, Virtual, Ephemeral: Collections of the Future?

31 March 2022. Mobile, Virtual, Ephemeral: Collections of the Future? with Sofia Dourron, Timea Junghaus, The Book Lovers Collective (Joanna Zielinska & David Maroto) and Piotr Rypson. Moderated by Agustin Perez Rubio and Malgorzata Ludwisiak.

Museums in Eastern Europe Under Pressure?

2 September 2021. Museums in Eastern Europe Under Pressure? with Zdenka Badovinac, Barnabás Bencsik, Mikołaj Iwański, and Jaroslaw Suchan. Moderatd by Malgorzata Ludwisiak.

CIMAM’s Museum Watch: What We Do and Why We Do it

27 May 2021. This panel is organized by CIMAM’s Museum Watch Committee and moderated by Sarah Glennie, panelists representing the Museum Watch working group will be Bart de Baere, Calin Dan, and Victoria Noorthoorn.

Curating Racially Sensitive Content in an Era of Reckoning over Race Relations

13 May 2021. CIMAM's workshop organized in collaboration with the National Coalition Against Censorship. Controversies over art exhibitions and cultural programming dealing with race are complicated by a tense and polarized political climate globally and a reckoning over racial relations of power.