How museums are adapting to ‘selfie culture’
9 years, 4 months ago

How museums are adapting to ‘selfie culture’

LA Times  

The museum of the future knows exactly where you are and maybe even what you want. It’s a fun way to get to your end goal, which is to help people appreciate and learn about the work.” LACMA recently launched a mobile app with audio tours, a searchable database of art on view, online collection information and push notifications alerting visitors when the bulbs on Chris Burden’s landmark “Urban Light” sculpture turn on and how many solar panels sit above your head when you walk from one building to the next. Digital touch tables in the special “Mummies” exhibition at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County allow guests to unwrap mummies virtually to discover more about the individuals’ lives in ancient times. In 1994, Ann Mintz wrote an article for Museum News titled “That’s Edutainment,” which discussed the concern that digital technology was causing museums to veer into theme park territory. Another term used to describe what’s happening inside museums, particularly natural history museums catering to a younger age group, is “Disneyfication.” Rather than create expensive digital displays for their galleries, some museums are adding interactive art to their collections.

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‘The digital has a big role to play in the decolonisation of museums’
1 year, 1 month ago

‘The digital has a big role to play in the decolonisation of museums’

The Hindu  

”Computational museology comprises of a range of technologies that go from generative AI technologies, computer graphics, large-scale interactive visualisation, human-computer interaction as well as many imaging technologies,” says Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, a professor at the École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland where she leads the Laboratory for Experimental Museology. Kenderdine, who was in Bengaluru recently to deliver a lecture …

Explained: Augmented reality, and how artists and institutions used it to make culture an at-home experience during the pandemic
3 years, 8 months ago

Explained: Augmented reality, and how artists and institutions used it to make culture an at-home experience during the pandemic

Firstpost  

If visitors could no longer go the artworks, maybe AR could help bring the artworks to them. Apple’s [AR>T initiative, curated by the New Museum, saw it conduct public art walks in Central Park, New York City, where viewers were led to various locations around the park where specific artworks had been installed, and used their phones to experience the …

Demystifying the Museum
4 years, 6 months ago

Demystifying the Museum

Slate  

On this week’s episode of Working, Rumaan Alam spoke with writer and art curator Kimberly Drew, whose new book, This Is What I Know About Art, was published in June. Kimberly Drew: I guess the thing that feels most urgent to say, though, is that I don’t think anyone grows up ignorant to art. There’s so many people who are …

#GettyMuseumChallenge sees people around the world dress up as their favourite works of art
4 years, 11 months ago

#GettyMuseumChallenge sees people around the world dress up as their favourite works of art

The Independent  

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Now, you can find your museum portrait lookalike with the Google Arts and Culture app
7 years, 2 months ago

Now, you can find your museum portrait lookalike with the Google Arts and Culture app

India TV News  

Forget human lookalikes, Google’s machine learning-powered image recognition tech is so powerful that now it can now be put to use to search famous pieces of art that kind of look like you. Although the Google Arts and Culture app has been around since 2016, it wasn’t until this weekend, people started to really pay attention to it. Google has …

32 Museums Across NYC Are 'Trading Places' And Taking Fans With Them
7 years, 10 months ago

32 Museums Across NYC Are 'Trading Places' And Taking Fans With Them

Huff Post  

Angelo Hornak via Getty Images On April 26, museums across New York City are switching Instagram accounts with one another for the sake of art lovers everywhere. Museums can sometimes feel like isolated, enclosed worlds, but they are in fact part of a significant network of New York art centers, engaged in constant conversation. The swap hopes to illuminate the …

Unwrap a mummy, share your art: the digital innovations seven L.A. museums are most excited about
9 years, 5 months ago

Unwrap a mummy, share your art: the digital innovations seven L.A. museums are most excited about

LA Times  

Like most everything else in the the modern world, museums are going digital. Nonetheless, sometimes real objects, like the ancient mummies on display in the museum's "Mummies" exhibit, can be better understood, and better accessed, using technology. "There's always such a thing as too much information," says Amy Heibel, vice president of technology, Web and digital media at Los Angeles …

Museums embrace ‘iconic selfie moments’ to drive younger visitors
9 years, 9 months ago

Museums embrace ‘iconic selfie moments’ to drive younger visitors

LA Times  

Marjorie Mabini, left, takes a selfie with her niece Jaydah Mabini, and son Jaren, 1, in front of the “Urban Light” installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. “The Boulder Holder” pose, a selfie that museum-goers take with artist Michael Heizer’s “Levitated Mass” sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is so popular …

Go on, touch it. The hands-on world of digital art
10 years, 8 months ago

Go on, touch it. The hands-on world of digital art

CNN  

Story highlights A new generation of digital creatives are pushing the boundaries of art They create immersive, interactive art using coding, motion sensors and more Work celebrated in new London exhibition, "Digital Revolution" Original work by musician will.i.am, "Pyramidi" featured in show London CNN — A new generation of creatives are taking code to a more colorful realm, using digital …

Creative Time Rethinks Wired Art
27 years, 9 months ago

Creative Time Rethinks Wired Art

Wired  

For many museum-goers, the intersection between technology and art translates into flashing projector screens, computers on pedestals, and a mouse for “interaction.” But New York’s Art in the Anchorage exhibition, organized by nonprofit artists’ collective Creative Time, showcases a spectacular assembly of work by wired artists concerned with aesthetics first and technology second. It takes viewers into red-lit public bathrooms, …

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