Peter Samis

Peter Samis is Associate Curator of Education and Program Manager for Interactive Educational Technologies (IET) at SFMOMA. He served as art historian/content expert for the first CD-ROM on modern art, and then spearheaded development of multimedia programs for SFMOMA's new building in 1995. Since then, SFMOMA’s IET programs have received awards from sources as diverse as the American Association of Museums, the National Educational Media Network, Communication Arts, and I.D. Magazine. Points of Departure, the Museum’s 2001 exhibition that experimented with the integration of new technologies directly alongside the art in the SFMOMA galleries, was awarded AAM’s 2002 Gold Muse Award for best use of new technologies in an art museum setting. Samis holds a BA in Religion from Columbia College in New York, and an MA in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Co-Project Lead on the Pachyderm 2.0 open source initiative (www.pachyderm.org), and together with his team continues to produce innovative content for SFMOMA’s galleries, website, podcasts, and the Museum’s Koret Visitor Education Center.

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Notes on Seeing <--> Knowing

In her 1992 book, “Museums & the Shaping of Knowledge,” Eilean Hooper-Greenhill speaks of the promise of the Museum as a place where “knowing can alter seeing.” I think those of us who work in interactive educational technologies (or with docents, for that matter), have seen this happen time and again. But if you love [...]