There’s an app for that? Ch#*st.
Posted in BLATHER & DRIVEL on 08/11/2011 06:46 pm by admin
In September, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art will open Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–12, and my sources tell me that the exhibition will make use of apps. I can’t remember if they will be using iPads or iPods, but there will be a “digital” component to the didactic part of the exhibition.
At the Tim Burton exhibition, they didn’t even put up very many tags. (How could they? There were 700 plus objects) They handed out customized iPod Touches. Each object had its own app.
To check into Cubism apps, I downloaded Fracture. The image above was made with the app. It features a beautiful 70s car. Cubism? There’s an app for that, too. On the one hand, it is wonderful that people can explore the formal side of Cubism in an intuitive way. On the other hand, yet another wonderous human idea has been commoditized and sold for less than a dollar.
Pertinent to that, have you used the new iPad in the gallery? What do you think? Is it applicable?