http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/episode-balance
________________________________ From: Emily Reyn <emilymae.r...@yahoo.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Best app I've ever seen (was Re: Who's to blame?) Except with this, one then has to "watch" a little screen and little person on the phone, instead of experiencing the piece personally. It takes the focus off the user's experience of the museum installation as interactive between human and art, so to speak. I personally like to read about what I view, but having a bug in my ear, someone else's voice, and/or some holographic-like image talking at me distracts from my experience and relegates to something not nearly as enjoyable. A lot of art is about interaction. This episode of Art21 on Balance was really good, I thought, and the artists have some really great insights. Sarah Sze documents the thought process and purpose and functionality of her piece put in the High Line park in NYC, for example. ________________________________ From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2012 8:38 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Best app I've ever seen (was Re: Who's to blame?) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Speaking of "digital introspection," and the future of > considering ones digital landscape more real than the > real landscape, here's a BBC video about an Android app > that allows you to combine the two. > > A national museum in the UK has enabled its visitors to > get a personal tour of several of the exhibits, narrated > by a 3D version of a famous British science presenter: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9718563.stm > > When the teachers start to lose kids to their smartphones, > the smart teachers develop apps for the smartphones. :-) The more I think about this, the more impressed I am at what a wonderful educational tool it could be. At museums, at national monuments, in beautiful buildings, whatever, you could have a little 3D presenter pop up to give you a guided tour. For a tour of Versailles you could have Louis himself guiding the tour. For a tour of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's houses you could have Frank himself walk you through it. For a tour of ancient Greece, you could have Bill & Ted in a trio act with So-crates. :-)
