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. It contains an unfin
ished ceiling so exhibits that in
clude interactive and technological
aspects can have the flexibility to
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