The Network: Cisco's Technology News Site: Museums and art galleries are hardly the first places that spring to mind when you think of technological innovation. Unless you have been to the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), that is.
Step inside the century-old building in University Circle on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and even though some of the exhibitions on display may date from hundreds or even thousands of years ago, the experience you have is pure 21st century or beyond.
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I do not agree with Jason Deign’s opening statement that “museums and art galleries are hardly the first places that spring to mind when you think of technological innovation.” Seriously??? Deign might want to read this overview of New Museum’s “Ghosts in the Machine” exhibition from 2012, a survey of works dating from the mid-1950s examining “artists’ embrace of and fascination with technology, as well as their prescient awareness of the ways in which technology can transform subjective experiences.”
http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/ghosts-in-the-machine
If Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA)’s Gallery One is indeed the cause of a 39 percent increase in attendance, that is great. And if “it propels visitors into the primary galleries with greater enthusiasm, understanding, and excitement about the collection,” so much the better. However, there is nothing in the Cisco press release making me want to plan a summer trip to the CMA.
Things like this really show how much technology is increasingly becoming integrated into our lives. On one hand it's a very cool thing that's happening, in the sense that we're sort of watching ourselves move towards what might be standard in the future, but on the other hand the insinuation that we have become so ever-dependent on the thrills of technology is a little bit sad -- we can't even enjoy the experience of viewing art or history without something flashy to keep us interested. All the same, it's easy to see why technology is so ubiquitous, and the exhibit would definitely be interesting to check out, and probably enjoyable as well.
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