With Cesare Griffa
Contemporary technology offers smarter instruments
than the old notebook: looking at the history of art in terms of informations
it’s possible to imagine an intelligent family of digital devices [the SmArt
System] that allows the user to collect selected informations from physical
museums and diagram them in a sort of “artificial landscape” of his art
experiences: the SmArt Scape [an intelligent datascape of art] that is the
basic element of the Virtual Museum.
Through a data-mining process it is able to suggest
the users about new exhibitions and events related to his particular interest
on art; at the same time the user can explore whenever and access all his
collected data, organized by the software in intelligent “itinerary” of
research.
In the media society the process of learning can be
disorienting. The museal experience remains a fundamental instrument to
structure our own knoledge. Our purpose is to help this organisation through
the realisation of a ‘parallel’ landscape of our museal experience. Because of
its visual nature, in the datArt scape, the process of remembering dates and
names becomes a sort of finding the way through particular itineraries and vistas. Once published on the net, the
user becomes the curator of his own art experience’s gallery. The virtual
museum, as the collection of all the users profiles, is the global landscape of
the users’ interests and activity in art.