Bad News: SFMoMA is currently closed for remodel.
Good News: They've designed a very interesting platform to browse their collection online. Sorting through archives normally can be a chore, but the SFMoMA artscope makes browsing kind of fun. You can use it as a search tool but I think it's more fun to play around with as a graphical interface. Scan, zoom, retreat, explore, etc.
This caught my eye recently but I know nothing else about it. Is it a proprietary format? Are there other sites like it out there? Is it a taste of the future? Seems like Flickr and Instagram should take note, not to mention other institutional collections. Or maybe even personal sites. Happy browsing...
Good News: They've designed a very interesting platform to browse their collection online. Sorting through archives normally can be a chore, but the SFMoMA artscope makes browsing kind of fun. You can use it as a search tool but I think it's more fun to play around with as a graphical interface. Scan, zoom, retreat, explore, etc.
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| Focused Vision, 1941, Nathan Lerner, (SFMoMA) |
This caught my eye recently but I know nothing else about it. Is it a proprietary format? Are there other sites like it out there? Is it a taste of the future? Seems like Flickr and Instagram should take note, not to mention other institutional collections. Or maybe even personal sites. Happy browsing...
It's actually from 2008 and seems to be a relic of the past rather than anything new. I asked them on twitter when I found out about it a couple years ago.
ReplyDeleteTakes me a few years to catch up with stuff. That's about par for the course. But if it's that old why haven't other sites adopted it?
ReplyDeleteYeah, the only thing I can think of is that it's flash and that's a dead end now. But this would totally be a fun phone app right?
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