Annual Report (10.1 MB PDF) - Cleveland Museum of Art
Annual Report (10.1 MB PDF) - Cleveland Museum of Art
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New tech meets old<br />
tech: visitors don<br />
1950s-style 3D glasses<br />
to experience a video<br />
interactive piece.<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> New Media<br />
Initiatives Holly<br />
Witchey explains the<br />
museum’s interactive<br />
exploration <strong>of</strong> Pablo<br />
Picasso’s La Vie.<br />
28<br />
Ingenuity Festival<br />
On Labor Day weekend in 2005, the<br />
museum participated in the inaugural<br />
Ingenuity Festival, a multifaceted event<br />
in downtown <strong>Cleveland</strong> fusing art and<br />
technology that involved hundreds <strong>of</strong><br />
artists and performers and attracted<br />
more than 70,000 attendees.<br />
The opening-night extravaganza,<br />
Traffic Jam, was created by Robin<br />
VanLear, artistic director <strong>of</strong> the<br />
museum’s Community <strong>Art</strong>s department<br />
and longtime artistic director <strong>of</strong><br />
Parade the Circle. <strong>Museum</strong> members<br />
had the opportunity to attend a special<br />
preview reception the evening <strong>of</strong> the<br />
opening ceremony. The museum temporarily<br />
occupied a storefront at the<br />
corner <strong>of</strong> Euclid Avenue and East 6th<br />
Street and assembled a multimedia<br />
spectacle that included interactive and<br />
interpretive technology, along with the<br />
model <strong>of</strong> the new museum. Visitors<br />
could view a 3D animation <strong>of</strong> the<br />
museum’s medieval Table Fountain and<br />
a hologram <strong>of</strong> the ancient Anatolian<br />
Stargazer (subtitled 5,000-Year-Old<br />
Woman), and they could interactively<br />
explore Picasso’s Blue Period masterpiece<br />
La Vie. Families donned special<br />
glasses to view the premiere <strong>of</strong> a 3D<br />
video depicting a French writing desk<br />
from the collection, which was<br />
directed by noted local video artist and<br />
filmmaker Kasumi. Some elements<br />
<strong>of</strong> the CMA pavilion displays were<br />
adapted from works in the concurrent<br />
NEO Show at the museum and from<br />
long-standing collaborations between<br />
the museum’s Information Technology<br />
department, Case Western Reserve<br />
University, and the <strong>Cleveland</strong><br />
Institute <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>.<br />
In 2006, the Community <strong>Art</strong>s department<br />
contributed a Chalk Festival<br />
preview to the Ingenuity festivities for<br />
that year, including kinetic music by<br />
the Panic Steel Drum Ensemble and a<br />
collaborative street painting by<br />
Barbara Chira, Jesse Rhinehart, and<br />
Jan Stickney, as well as a family interactive<br />
street-painting workshop.
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