Can art recreate a migrant’s border trauma? This simulation might come close
Alejandro Inarritu’s 6-minute VR narrative is the ‘hottest ticket’ in D.C.
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Author: evangelia baka
The 5 best museum AR/VR experiences this summer
Some of today’s most creative uses of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are emerging from museum halls, rather than Silicon Valley campuses. Faced with the physical limitations of museum spaces, the delicate nature of artwork and yes — the occasional heist, these institutions have embraced VR and AR with gusto. In just a few years, they have created an impressive range of applications to combat these challenges and to reimagine the relationship between art and audience. We’ve rounded up five of the best museum VR and AR experiences to enjoy this summer — whether you’ll be playing tourist or...
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How augmented reality will make street art come to life
Amid vagabonding taco trucks and art galleries, in Miami’s sunny art district, Wynwood, there are blocks and blocks of mural-embossed buildings. It’s a neighborhood with fantastic imagery only limited to an artist’s imagination. It’s also a community that is using technology in an unprecedented way to engage smartphone-distracted passersby. Indeed, it’s here, among walls that have borne murals of Yoda wielding a “Stop Wars” sign and an elephant with a swaying bouquet of tentacle-like trunks, that a curious new spray-painted mural has been beguiling locals and visitors alike for months. If Miami creatives are right, then this particular work,...
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China’s Palace Museum goes digital, offering access to previously forbidden chambers
BEIJING (XINHUA) – The Forbidden City in Beijing is shaping a new image for itself after almost six centuries.
The imperial palace, also known as the Palace Museum, is expanding its appeal to the smartphone generation.
Dunhuang dancers come alive in Shanghai exhibition
If you have visited the wondrous Dunhuang Murals, have you ever imagined that the musicians and dancers in the pictures can play and dance right before your eyes? Take a chance at a cutting-edge exhibition, “Special Exhibition on Music and Dance Scenes in Dunhuang Murals,” which opens at Xuhui Art Museum on Saturday, and you’ll see how the latest achievements in technology work wonder. Admission is free. The museum opens from 9am to 5pm and closes on Mondays. The exhibition floors of the art museum have been turned into a modern Dunhuang cave, and a major highlight is a seven-minute...
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