Associate Director of the CSULB University Art Museum Ilee Kaplan said the new smart facility will be built as a museum that merges art with technology.
Kaplan described the museum as one that will be a "laboratory for new ideas - for the gestation of ideas that cross boundaries between science, technology and art."
The smart facility will use technology for exhibitions and visitor services so that if a visitor wants to learn more about an artwork he or she can download it instantly onto their iPod and read about it later.
The new museum will rely heavily on technology to enable "ephemeral performances," Kaplan said, which can be difficult to maintain and store.
More and more, artists are beginning to explore new types of expression for their art and one of these is performance art in which an artist creates an experience rather than a physical piece of art. What is left behind are instructions, rather than an object, Kaplan explains.
Thus, the smart facility will be "storing ideas," Kaplan said, and the artwork can be experienced as "interactive projects online."
"The museum itself will be a work of art."
Thursday, October 23, 2008
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