Museum3D

December 3, 2013

Reflections on the Diwali Event by Erica Brooks

SAIC graduate student, Erica Brooks, journaled her experience at The Art Institute of Chicago’s Diwali Festival including her impressions of the 3-D events. Read her write up: http://bit.ly/19q6Hg4 Thanks Erica!

November 12, 2013

‘Pose Like a Statue’ at the Diwali Family Festival

As part of last weekend’s Diwali Family Festival, the Museum3D team held its first grant funded 3-D event. ‘Pose Like a Statue’ had four components for exploring 3-D in the museum: 1) Scanning kids as they pose like a statue; 2) Artist Tom Burtonwood demonstrating and discussing 3-D printing in his practice; 3) 123DCatch Scanning…

November 6, 2013

About Museum3D

Museum3D shares the process associated with designing, implementing, and evaluating a series of public programs using 3-D technologies at the Art Institute of Chicago. This project is supported by a one-year IMLS Sparks Ignition grant. We’d love your feedback along the way by commenting on the blog, tweeting @Museum_3D or sharing something on our Museum3D Facebook page.

Featured October 31, 2013

Welcome

The Art Institute of Chicago is in the midst of designing a series of innovative art experiences incorporating 3-D technologies. We’re approaching the development of these programs, which is generously supported by an IMLS Sparks Ignition grant as experiments to determine how the inclusion of 3-D technology affects engagement with the museum’s collection. These programs range…

October 30, 2013

Kicking off

The Museum3D advisory team kicked off the IMLS grant in early October. This group consists of representatives from the departments of Digital Information and Access, Museum Education and external artists and advisors. Public program leads from the Museum Education department shared initial summaries and goals of the planned programs. The evaluation strategy for the grant needs…