Thursday, March 31, 2011

Ipad app for Infinite Variety!

At the Armory, for the Exhibit of the "infinite Variety-650 quilts from the Joanna Rose Collection" Co sponsored by the Folk Art Museum. As an artist, both digital and otherwise, I am always amazed and grateful when technology unites with tradition to create a new expression of either!



They were using an app on the ipad as an audio visual accompaniment to the exhibit. They were lent to the viewers and returned as they left.
Sponsored by the DavidSRose Foundation, who were also the owners of the collection. Very cool. There is also an iphone app which has an audio file for the quilts on it. 
The guy on the left told me they were doing a lot of teaching during the course of the day. Fifteen thousand people had the chance to use the ipad  during the course of this sIx day exhibit which was held as an eightieth birthday present by and for the owner of the entire collection, Joanna Semel Rose!
App is available on the Itunes store Free!
martha

1 comment:

McKenna said...

That is very cool. I too love the integration of new technology with traditional. It helps to open the world of the traditionally based artist to a new generation who inevitably puts their own twist on it.
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