an interesting piece

Museums 2.0: What Happens When Great Art Meets New Media?

This was an incredibly interesting article regarding how new media is affecting museums. I've thought a lot about this topic. First when I was in Paris and was overwhelmingly bothered by the mona-lisa-cell-phone-photo-takers, and such. Now, I work at the Museum of Art, and I help out with the new iPad app that helps out patrons. I don't know, we shall see, but here are some great quotes regardless:


" 'The artwork, document or fossil is a tourist site; the photograph is our souvenir," he wrote. "And the looking -- for which museums were created -- becomes a memory before it has even begun.' ...

Nicholas Carr writes that "there needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly in the garden."

There's not a lot of garden left in the world. And this is what makes museums so important."