John Kannenberg is an artist, researcher, teacher, performer, storyteller, and writer.
He is also Director & Chief Curator of The Museum of Portable Sound.
I was recently interviewed by Ruby Thiagarajan of Brown University's Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage for the Center's Public Work podcast, a show that focuses on public scholarship institutions and projects across a wide spectrum of cultural heritage topics. We spoke about The Museum of Portable Sound, what it's like to collect and curate sound, and what museum practices have in common with mixtapes, playlists, and sampling.
Every museum has its own unique soundtrack. This week on Public Work, Ruby Thiagarajan, a first-year Master's Student in Public Humanities at Brown University, talks to John Kannenberg, a multimedia artist and the Director and Chief Curator of The Museum of Portable Sound. Ruby and John discuss why John decide to create a museum that's the size of a cell phone, what it's like to curate sound, and what we might learn from the sounds of museums. Public Work is produced and hosted by Amelia Golcheski and Jim McGrath. Questions? Comments? Find us on Twitter (PublicWorkPod) or email us: publicworkpodcast[at]gmail. The music on this episode is excerpted from the song "New Day" by Lee Rosevere (licensed via Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International).
