case study: artfinder - building digital capacity for the arts

Distractions andSpace and TimeChris ThorpeTechnologist @jaggeree

Recommendations

Apps

Audioguides+

We need to see through the walls of museums...

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Bend services around the user

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Before we begin. Test everything on a real device.Yourself.

And. Play with lots of devices and get used to them.

Time and Space

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Distraction

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Size

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Context

Expendibility

Finishability

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Size

J.B.S. Haldane

The most obvious differences between different animals are differences of size, but for some reason the zoologists have paid singularly little attention to them. In a large textbook of zoology before me I find no indication that the eagle is larger than the sparrow, or the hippopotamus bigger than the hare, though some grudging admissions are made in the case of the mouse and the whale. But yet it is easy to show that a hare could not be as large as a hippopotamus, or a whale as small as a herring. For every type of animal there is a most convenient size, and a large change in size inevitably carries with it a change of form.

Am I a small phone?Am I a large phone?Am I a small tablet?Am I a large tablet?Am I 4x3 or 16x9?

Am I an interactive screen?

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Context

Am I being held with one hand?Am I being held with two hands?

Is it easier if I’m portrait or landscape?Am I on my dock?

Am I on someone’s lap?Am I on a table?

Expendibility

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Approaching peak Work/Life/Phone/Being Balance

How long will I last?

Finishability

“The New York Times weekend edition is the end of level boss of newspapers, there is almost no

chance of vanquishing it unless you play in two player co-operative mode”

And because you can possibly finish newspaper, you read everything and then curation and juxtaposition

combine to yield serendipity

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Offline ➔ Online ➔ Offline ➔ Online (repeat until fade)

Distraction*

Time and Space*

Mission Control** actual figures are total guestimates, we’ll let you know when we know them

Time and Space

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Where am I?When am I?

What is here?What should I be doing?

What can I do now and here?Where is everybody?

Finding out about art around you

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Caution, unscientific ethnographic analysis ahead*

*small sample set

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Snap - Camera operation screens nice animation, colours from the image results, with possible alternatives left/right

Snap - Camera operation screens nice animation, colours from the image results, with possible alternatives left/right

Image recognition

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Look at art not screens

Technology should get out of the way.

How to do zoom in gallery apps...

Walk towards the painting.

Mission Control

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Well I like that, more please.Where can I find X?

I didn’t know about Y, but my friend likes them.

Prado

Reine Sofia

Thyssen-Bornemisza

Distraction

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I’m bored, distract me.I’m stuck here, distract me.

I want some fun, distract me.

The greatest serendipity machine ever

Radio isn’t a continuous stream

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It’s short highly curated bursts

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Which start, and most importantly finish

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Artfinder Platform targets multiple devices, formats and app stores

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Art in White Cubes

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Don’t reinvent wheels

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Make wheel factories

Monet

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Waterlillies (1916)

PicassoPicasso

Guernica (1937)

Hirst

Shark

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1992)

Gormley

Ecce Homo

Event Horizon (2010)

El Salahi

The Inevitable (1984-1985)

Fountain

Expendibility

You are not the only thing in a person’s life

Bring them joy, and wonder so they’ll want you in it for a while.