Explore Modern Art Project

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new york city, New York, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) January 17, 2012 -- A Museums for America grant from the federal government's Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has enabled SFMOMA growing explore modern art , the centerpiece of our redesigned website launched in November 2008. This online learning environment is an interactive space that integrates our multimedia interpretive programs, collections information, and calendar of public programs and events. It is manufactured to encourage greater engagement with modern and contemporary art and with SFMOMA.

SFMOMA's Interactive Educational Technologies (IET) team has invested more than a decade in developing interactive features on art displayed at SFMOMA. Altogether these traits deliver engaging programming on 85 modern and contemporary artists, enabling targeted traffic to find our about the contexts when the artworks are intended, see videos of the artists in their studios, hear first-person explanations of their creative processes, and view high-resolution digital images of the artworks. In Explore Modern Art this substantial repository of interactive digital features, podcasts, and video/audio interviews with artists has been reformatted into easier accessible segments and merged with our searchable online database, Collections Access Online. Launched in 2004, this database continues to expand. It currently provides users with information (artist, title, nationality, date, medium) about a lot more than 9,000 objects belonging to the museum's number of 27,000 artworks.

The enhanced collection records in the centre of the Explore Modern Art interface combine info on artists together with their talk with related multimedia features along with a variety of interpretive texts, including 200 artists' biographies commissioned within the project. These materials are presented alongside timely details about museum programs and events that are proportional to the artist and/or artwork information being viewed. By uniting these many elements, explore modern art provides our online audience with a greater a sense context for the art and artists in the museum's collection, with layered access to different stages of information aimed at users with varying interests and numbers of knowledge.

Explore Modern Art supports lifelong learning by significantly broadening public accessibility museum's rich educational offerings. By contextualizing SFMOMA's collection and exhibitions, it encourages participation in the public programs. In this way, the project aims to make the digital equal of a distinctly analog experience: sitting yourself down in a library and casually browsing stacks of titles, familiar and unfamiliar, inside a subject area of the own choosing. explore modern art goes a step at night library analogy, however, supplying a direct and intuitive path from on-screen content to a first-person connection with the artwork and related events on the museum. It also is sufficiently flexible and scalable to match an unfolding narrative eventually, mirroring the constantly evolving nature of recent and contemporary art.

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