Interesting report from NEA on
How Americans Use Electronic Media to Participate in the Arts
When compared with non-media participants, Americans who participate in the arts through technology and electronic media - using the Internet, television, radio, computers, and handheld devices - are nearly three times more likely to attend live arts events; attend twice as many live arts events; and attend a greater variety of genres of live arts events.
We have a Late Night event tonight and I've seen quite a few visitors ask for iPods so they can enjoy the new smARTphone Tour for Lens of Impressionism (a first). We tested this week and tours are looking GOOD -- and super-fast over the DMA wireless!
Our own Heather MacDonald, The Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art on WFAA yesterday. Nice :)
http://www.wfaa.com/good-morning-texas/The-Lens-of-Impressionism-at-the-...
We begin performance testing for two new smart phone tours (approximately 20 stops each) on Feb 1. All accessible via http://DallasMuseumofArt.mobi. We roll out to the public in three weeks -- woohoo!
Leave it to the Japanese:
In Japan, a new iPhone application is being used to help visitors navigate their way through a museum and to find data on the exhibitions.
Developers Tonchidot's Sekai Camera app enables users to tag things they want others to see.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8214219.stm
Chris Alexander of the San Jose Museum of Art & Ted Forbes of the DMA discuss development of iPod Touch tours for their museums: from wireless networks, to interfaces, to back-end content management and signage in the galleries.
We have finally launched the new primary Web site. We still have some tweaks and minor debugging to plow through, but we are "live" and rockin' a new look and new functionality. We begin usability testing at the end of the month.
Podcast on DMA, Smithsonian, IMA collaboration on an open source mobile content delivery interface
http://dallasmuseumofart.tv/mobile/
Mobile Museum Wiki
http://museummobile.info/
Quite a nice little debate about the use of technology and access to info in gallery spaces going on over at Art & Seek:
http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/02/12/the-wireless-dma/
... and follow-up:
http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/02/20/video-dmas-arts-network/
