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Event Two | Fowler Museum

I visited the Fowler Museum on campus to discover ways they may connect art and technology in their exhibits. After taking a walk through all of their exhibits, it was evident that technology is definitely one of the ways that art is expressed at the museum. For example, as soon as you first step into the museum's main hallway, there is a monitor displaying a movement piece. It continuously plays a loop of a man dancing. Something similar is playing on a few other monitors as well. For this example, the use of technology was essential for putting this form of art on display. I thought that this part of the exhibit was very refreshing because it was not a still piece of art. Whenever I go to museums with other people, often someone loses interest standing and staring at still art. With pieces like these, it grabs the attention of more people.

One of the monitors displaying the movement piece

In another section of the museum, there was another example of how technology assisted in the viewing of the art. There was a small room lined with different headdresses that viewers could take a look at. However, next to the Joli headdress, there was an iPad sized device attached to the wall. As explained in the description below, the monitor was used to give the viewer an interactive way to look at the headdresses and to assess them from all angles without touching the work or dissecting it. I thought this part of the exhibit was the most interesting because of its interactive feature. I thoroughly enjoyed being able to see the headdress from any angle I wished and I could control it through the touchscreen, something that most of us are very familiar with. In my opinion, incorporating our modern technology as a way of looking at older art brings new interest to the pieces. Overall the visit to the museum contained more technology with the art than I had originally expected. Each of the exhibits I looked at were interesting and even more so with the addition of their technological additions or aids.

Joli headdress monitor

Myself in front of one of the monitors