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Tacoma Art Museum's
Ear for Art
(a hosted program)

Dale Chihuly's Floats in the museum's attrium

TheTacoma Art Museum has added a new Museum411 cell phone tour Ear for Art focusing the howetown work of the world reknown, glass artist Dale Chihuly. Ear for Art features twelve major stops and multiple sub-topics located throughout the Museum and the surrouding district and gives cell-phone users the opportunity to hear a variety of voices including Chihuly himself – talk about the installations at Tacoma Art Museum, Union Station, the Chihuly Bridge of Glass, the University of Washington Tacoma Library, and The Swiss Pub.

A brochure with a map listing tour stops and tour numbers is available at Tacoma Art Museum and at other businesses in downtown Tacoma during business hours. Download the map. (PDF)

Tacoma's Union Station feature five major tour stops with interviews with Dale Chihuly as well as the architect

The tour includes an interview with owner of the famous Swis Tavern featurng a selection of Chihuly's Venitians

The Bridge of Glass contains three major stops as well as an interactive looking game

ZeroOne 2006 San Jose

Cellular Memory
(a hosted program)

The ISEA - ZeroOne Electronic Arts Festival's Cellular Memory included descriptions of over 100 artist projects installed throughout the city of San Jose.

Walker Art Center's
Art On Call
(an onsite client-owned system)

Walker Art Center visitors listening to Claus
Oldenburg, discuss his working process

Visitors to the newly expanded Walker Art Center are excited to find that they can use their personal cell phones to access information about the museum's works of art, events and exhibitions through a unique on-site IVR-based audio information system produced in a collaboration between Museum411 the Walker's department of New Media Initiatives.

Detailed Press Release (PDF file)

IVR Integration Diagram (PDF file)

Art On Call demonstration

An interview with Walker curator, Siri Engberg

Artist, Julie Mehretu discussing
her working process

Artist Charles Ray, describing how he
constructed his piece "Unpainted Sculpture"

The Art on Call project was funded in part by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to research the capabilities of this emerging technology. Research findings from this project will be published in the spring of 2007.