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How can museums creatively embrace the digital age? Troy Therrien, Curator of Architecture and Digital Initiatives, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City - Moderator Dr Apinan Poshyananda, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the Bangkok Art Biennale Lizzy Jongma, Senior ICT Project Leader at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Takashi Kudo, artist and communications director, teamLab artist collective, Mori Building Digital Art Museum, Tokyo Emeka Ogboh, Nigerian sound and installation artist Reputation, expertise and physical crowds jostling to view the latest exhibition or curatorial acquisition are no longer the only measures of a cultural institution’s success.Traditionally dedicated to collecting, research, archiving and preservation, institutions such as museums, galleries, libraries and archives are now expected to cultivate and engage with digital audiences around the world in unique ways, 24 hours a day, prompting the question of how organisations, artists and curators can extend their outreach and their collections beyond the museum and into the digital realm. 31