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New museum incorporates technology into art displays BY ANTHONY LUCERO NEWS REPORTER The University is already look ing into the coming months and years for ways to develop technol ogy that will enhance the experi ence for visitors of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, which will officially open Sunday. “Our goal is to make the museum accessible, multisensory and interac tive,” museum spokeswoman Katie Sproles said. On its opening day, the art museum will have a computer kiosk to provide background infor mation, enabling multimedia into the galleries and keeping wireless capability open to its visitors. Already, wireless access is avail able throughout the building and in the Marche Museum Cafe, which opened earlier this month. Among the “interactive” features the muse um will include on opening day are DVD displays relevant to the gal leries. The museum’s featured de but exhibit is Andy Warhol’s Dream America, which will include videos of Warhol and footage of The Facto ry, where the artist worked on many of his famous pieces. There is also a computer kiosk available in the museum’s Focus Gallery , which will feature art rele vant to different University depart ments — the kiosk will give visitors access to background information for any of the featured art. The first Focus Gallery exhibit, “Colorful Lanterns at Shangyuan,” is a Chinese scroll by an anonymous artist, according to the museum’s winter 2005 newsletter. The history department’s associate professor Ina Asim helped coordinate the ex hibit, which contains the original scroll along with a digital version that provides better clarity than the aged original. So how is the museum — and other University buildings — adapting to future technology? “We talk about new buildings in the design phase and ask users, ‘What needs are there in this building for technology?’” Dale Smith, direc tor of Network Services at the Com puting Center, said. “With the muse um, we thought, ‘What does technology mean to art?’ Art really in volves a variety of mediums, includ ing interactive exhibits, that may use plasma TVs, for example.” One example of this foresight is a 4,000-square-foot changing gallery section in the museum, which Sproles calls a “black box” room. 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Sigma Chi hosted Derby Days, an annual four-day philanthropic event with activities and fundraisers in which all eight of the University’s sororities participate. It is a competi tion between sororities, as well as a fundraiser. “Nationally, Derby Days has raised over $2 million for the Children’s Mira cle Network,” Derby Days Committee Chair Ttavis Hall said. This year, Derby Days was held Nov. 14 through Nov. 17, and Sigma Chi will present the Children’s Mira cle Network with the check this term. The money raised by the University’s chapter of Sigma Chi will go directly to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Sacred Heart Medical Center. This year’s Derby Days included a penny drive, a competition in which the sororities decorated the Sigma Chi house, T-shirt sales, a skit auction, sorority Olympics, a lip-synch contest and a barbecue. 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