Tate Gallery Unleashes Night Robots To Livestream Art. London art gallery Tate Britain, in partnership with design studio The Workers, will soon be giving art enthusiasts a chance to access the gallery at night via a team of remote-controlled robots that will roam the gallery at night and livestream the art pieces. Art enthusiasts can skip the crowds of gallery visitors during the day and book a time slot for them to access the art gallery at night through the remote-controlled robots.
The robots are fitted with lights and a camera and are connected to a website where users will be able to view the art work displayed at the gallery. Users will be able to steer the robots and direct them around the paintings and exhibits — enabling the users to view and appreciate the gallery’s collection without any obstruction. The project was created by The Workers as their entry into the inaugural IK Prize, a Tate-sponsored competition for digitally innovative projects that can “enhance public enjoyment of art.”
Tate Britain. A Chicago Library Retools By Offering A Maker Space In Addition To Books. Most big cities these days have maker spaces--places that offer tools--soldering irons, 3-D printers, sewing machines--to build all sorts of things. Think of it as the backlash to a culture that places the digital world above all else. Joining these maker spaces, however, can be too expensive (a one month membership at San Francisco’s Tech Shop costs $175). The Chicago Public Library is making the high-tech tools normally found in a maker space available to use for free, as part of a pop-up fabrication lab--created in partnership with the Museum of Science and Industry--that’s launching July 8 at the Harold Washington library branch.
Crain’s Chicago Business says that the lab will offer a vinyl cutter, laser cutters, a milling machine, 3-D printers, and an array of design software (Trimble Sketchup, Inkscape, Meshlab, etc.). The lab will feature open hours, where librarygoers can work with staff members on their own creations. But it isn’t the only maker-oriented library out there. New Interactive Gallery Opens at the Cleveland Museum of Art on January 21 | Cleveland Museum of Art. CLEVELAND (January 14, 2013) – On January 21, 2013, the Cleveland Museum of Art will open Gallery One, a unique, interactive gallery that blends art, technology and interpretation to inspire visitors to explore the museum’s renowned collections. This revolutionary space features the largest multi-touch screen in the United States, which displays images of over 3,500 objects from the museum’s world-renowned permanent collection.
This 40-foot Collection Wall allows visitors to shape their own tours of the museum and to discover the full breadth of the collections on view throughout the museum’s galleries. Throughout the space, original works of art and digital interactives engage visitors in new ways, putting curiosity, imagination and creativity at the heart of their museum experience. Innovative user-interface design and cutting-edge hardware developed exclusively for Gallery One break new ground in art museum interpretation, design and technology. A visitor explores the Collection Wall. How One Museum Looks to Combat Ageism | Arts & Culture. Pop-Up Museums...On Main Street. One of the themes CFM explored in TrendsWatch 2012 was pop-up culture: the public’s growing appetite for mobile, transitory retail, culinary or cultural experiences. Today’s blog post is by Nate Rudy, director of economic and community development for the City of Gardiner, Maine, which just finished a pop-up retail experiment over the holidays.
Nate “gets” the potential of museums to help revitalize the city center. How can we encourage more other administrators to share his vision? One starting point might be to share this post with your town’s planners as a starting point for a conversation on how museum can contribute to economic, and cultural, revitalization. In a perfect world, every Main Street would have a museum of local and regional art or history. In the aftermath of the global economic adjustment and the factory closings that preceded it here in Maine, many of us lost jobs and income or have been compelled to change trades. 21c museum hotel invites guests to bed down with 21st century art. Hotel Art Curators Are a Growing Breed. All that, and one helping hand a guest might not expect: a hotel curator. Hotels have been hanging fine art on their walls for decades now. commissioned a series of prints for what is considered the original boutique hotel, the Morgans, in 1984; the Roger Smith, a small property in Midtown Manhattan, transformed its lobby into an art gallery and performance space as part of a 1991 renovation.
But few have gone so far as the James, which hired a young artist, Matthew Jensen, to select original artworks to adorn each of its 14 floors of guest rooms. Mr. Jensen, 29, a photographer whose work was acquired this year by the , may have an unusual job description, but he is also part of a growing breed. As business and building owners look to inject their properties with a little artistic personality, a new class of curators — some of them contractors like Mr.
Jensen and some of them staff members — has arisen to help. Mr. The pictures appealed to Mr. In addition to curating the hotel art, Mr. Amidst Cuts, Indianapolis Museum Partners with Alexander Hotel. Alyson Shotz (Brooklyn, NY)Standing Wave, 2012Dichroic acrylic and velcro tape14 feet 6 inches x 22 fee 3 inches x 1 footGround LevelThe Alexander Hotel, part of CityWay in downtown Indianapolis.Photographer: Tad Fruits Jorge Pardo (Los Angeles, CA)Plat 99 bar, Hotel Alexander, Indianapolis2nd floorThe Alexander Hotel, part of CityWay in downtown Indianapolis.Photographer: Tad Fruits Kim Beck (Pittsburgh, PA)Lot (Indianapolis), 2012Vinyl on windows2nd floor, women's restroomsThe Alexander Hotel, part of CityWay in downtown Indianapolis. Nina Katchadourian (Brooklyn, NY)Heartland, 2012C-print, 40 x 30 inches2nd floor public spaceThe Alexander Hotel, part of CityWay in downtown Indianapolis.Photographer: Tad Fruits Paul Villinski (Brooklyn, NY)Anthem, 2012Vinyl records, turntable, record covers, and wireDimensions variable2nd floor reception areaThe Alexander Hotel, part of CityWay in downtown Indianapolis.Photographer: Tad Fruits Sonya Clark (Richmond, VA)Madam C.J.
Detroit Institute of Arts Partners with Oakwood Healthcare on Video of Artworks for Patient Rooms, Program Offers Pleasant Diversion from Stressful Circumstances. Dearborn, MI (PRWEB) May 28, 2013 The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has partnered with Oakwood Healthcare to create a video of artworks designed to enhance the healing environment for patients and to alleviate the stressful experience of a hospital stay. The video is the first of its kind and will be available in patients’ rooms. It will be available in May for patients at Oakwood Southshore Medical Center (OSMC) in Trenton. The DIA, in consultation with Oakwood Arts for the Spirit staff, produced the 18-minute video featuring images of the museum’s architecturally stunning spaces and detailed explorations of artworks, accompanied by serene piano music and inspiring quotes. “The DIA is delighted to partner with Oakwood on this video that will benefit patients through the inspiring power of art,” said Graham W.J.
The video is designed primarily to serve patients, many of whom may be experiencing varying degrees of fear, distress and physical pain. In Australia, a museum experience that seduces and shocks. HOBART -- The grey-washed winter day is an appropriately dramatic setting for my first visit to the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). After a short ferry jaunt, the monolithic complex comes into sight, perched on top of sandstone cliffs jutting out into the Derwent River, its unassuming façade giving nothing away. As I climb the concrete stairs, I’m left wondering: Is this really it? Is this the so-called "Disneyland for adults"? In January 2011, MONA opened its doors to a flurry of visitors — its art, tech gadgets, architecture and owner, the gambler millionaire David Wash — received both praise and criticism. As I reached the top of the peninsula, the populist appeal of MONA dawned upon me.
If you can afford to, you can even sleep at the museum. The $175m museum is an underground cave full of old and new art treasures from part of Walsh’s $100m private collection. Entry to the museum is via black-mirrored double doors -- perhaps Walsh’s version of going down the rabbit hole? Old Power Station Transformed Into A Rollercoaster. The Battersea Power Station is an iconic part of the London skyline, but has sat vacant since the 1980s. The building provides a great example of Art Deco interior and French architects Atelier Zündel Cristea‘s proposed idea preserves it as a museum, with a rollercoaster around the outside. The rollercoaster would place the focus on the building itself, allowing visitors a unique view of the exterior before they went inside. People would also be able to walk around inside the paths created by the scaffolding-like support of the ride. The Creators Project notes that the design took first prize in the ArchTriumph Museum of Architecture competition.
Our project puts the power station on centre stage, the structure itself enhancing the site through its impressive scale, its architecture, and its unique brick material. Atelier Zündel Cristea. Museum Preserves And Displays Historic Cave Drawings [Pics] The cave drawings discovered at Lascaux in 1940 enjoyed over 1,000 visitors a day until the doors were shut in 1963, due to the damage caused by carbon dioxide breathed out by tourists.
Lascaux II was opened nearby in 1983, but only replicated parts of the famous Paleolithic art. Now, Lascaux IV will bring an immersive experience of the caves to visitors once again, with a new museum and complete facsimile of the famous cave. Winners of the Lascaux IV: International Cave Painting Center competition, Casson Mann, Duncan Lewis and Snøhetta have envisioned a museum that is line with the topography of the landscape, with a low profile exterior that almost sinks into the surrounding rock. The interior will be made up of caverns and tunnels to replicate the Lascaux caves, with chambers dramatically lit by shafts of light from above. Within will be a full replica of the cave drawings, which has never been done before.
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