On Feb 1, 10:59pm, R. Murphy wrote (excerpts):
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> My point is that "interactivity" isn't a matter of technical gadgets
> but an environment...Art museums have to learn that the public
> likes art, they really do, but they don't like art history or academics
> and no amount of technical gadgetry will change that.
 
I think the main focus of art museum interactivity is not the museum
audience, ingeneral, but the children visitors, specifically.  If a museum
can catch children's imaginations while still in their formative years, they
would be more likely to return more often as adults, and more likely to
introduce their own children at a younger age.  This follows that St. Thomas
Aquinas saying (to paraphrase): Give me a child until the age of seven and I
have moulded him for life.
 
 
 
 
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Joshua Heuman
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