{"id":747,"date":"2017-02-15T17:45:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/?p=747"},"modified":"2017-02-15T17:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:45:47","slug":"shooting-wallpaper-digital-projection-at-lacma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/2017\/02\/15\/shooting-wallpaper-digital-projection-at-lacma\/","title":{"rendered":"“Shooting Wallpaper” Digital Projection at LACMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I went to LACMA, there was a digital wallpaper projected on a wall on the third floor of the Hammer Building.\u00a0 <\/span>Titled, “Shooting Wallpaper”<\/a>, it was an animated film, with sound, looping every few minutes.\u00a0 <\/span>It depicted a white and pink floral, country pattern with a young girl sitting in nature.\u00a0 <\/span>Every so often, she would stand, walk towards the viewer, imitate shooting at the viewer’s direction several times with her hand (multiple gunshot sounds would be heard), and then sort of meander her way back to sit in her original position.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(Photos from LACMA Collections site)<\/p>\n

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Since the digital display was so large, and made noise, a good number of visitors congregated around it to see what was happening.\u00a0 <\/span>Most people stayed, watched it for a few minutes, and then carried on looking around the rest of the exhibition (which did not contain any other technology).\u00a0 <\/span>Most of the kids that walked by were entranced by the screen, and called out to their parents to come and look.\u00a0 <\/span>A few more curious viewers actually walked closer to the screen to read the description (photo included in this blog).\u00a0 <\/span>There was also a piece of art that was similar to the pattern depicted in the digital wallpaper, on the right wall-side of the projection.\u00a0 <\/span>Most viewers just walked passed this.\u00a0 <\/span>I think because that art piece was similar, but not exactly the same as what was digitized in the projection, it was often ignored.\u00a0 <\/span>Visitors probably didn’t realize that the two were meant to complement each other. While I was observing, I also noticed most people spent more time looking at visuals, art pieces, and artifacts, while using the text to supplement what they were seeing.\u00a0 <\/span>Although this is slightly intuitive, it is interesting to note because it also explains what people will likely pay attention to when it comes to digital technology in museums.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I observed the “Shooting Wallpaper”, I watched it repeat several times.\u00a0 <\/span>It was definitely an eye-catching, interesting piece.\u00a0 <\/span>I personally felt that it was a bit out of place, though, because it was more attention-grabbing than informative.\u00a0 <\/span>It also seemed a bit strange to put something using such modern technology in a room of older artifacts.\u00a0 <\/span>I was actually more confused after<\/i> watching it, than before.\u00a0 <\/span>In this case, the museum’s use of technology was interesting, but I was not a huge fan of it. It just seemed difficult to connect the dots from a moving wallpaper back to the art that inspired it.\u00a0 <\/span>Did the artist, Brigitte Zieger, just make one still of the art, and then it was animated in 2006? Where was the connection between the artists’ original intent and message, and how it was animated years later? None of these questions were really answered by the text cards, and left me feeling more confused by the use of technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(the other photos I took when I was there kept saying HTTP error when I tried to upload them, so I could only post the one I took of the text card)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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