Comments on: Podcasting museum audio tours – the sanctioned and unauthorized

By: Nate Schroeder

Nate Schroeder — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:04:13 +0000

@Steve P – Thanks for the note, that’s some good stuff on your site… I especially like the idea of the “Secret Room” for recording feedback – we’ve got a feedback / annotation feature on Art On Call, but are experiencing similar timidity from users in the galleries. A room like that might be the perfect answer…

By: Steve Piccolo

Steve Piccolo — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:09:40 +0000

Over the last few years we’ve done several projects like this with different approaches… a museum, a neighborhood, an event, a small city. Instead of expecting people to download podcasts, in many cases we simply broadcast the results of almost real-time edited input. You could listen to remarks and conversations in the museum cafe, or in a public park every evening, someplace people congregate, adding musical segments to the programming to make it less relentlessly verbal. We got much better results in terms of involvement and discussion from this approach than from the material put on-line. The on-line stuff serves above all as documentation.

You can see and hear five projects here:

http://www.undo.net/stevepiccolo/index.cgi?action=view&idramo=1151705766

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:32:36 +0000

I saw G.H.’s post script on the 4th, listened to the Whitney mash-up, and wished we could get you to do something for the Walker. I missed the change in your last will and testament but should make a great addition to the Art Dirt archives already in Gallery 9

http://gallery9.walkerart.org/bookmark.html?id=2682&type=archive&bookmark=1

By: eric

eric — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:00:15 +0000

Sorry G.H. the comment got caught in our spam filter for a little while, I just spotted it.

By: G.H. Hovagimyan

G.H. Hovagimyan — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:09:43 +0000

Post Script. One of the most successful Art Dirt Redux podcasts was the Whitney Biennial mash-up part 1 and part 2 . http://spaghetti.nujus.net/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=10&search=whitney

Yes it’s an unauthorized tour of the 2006 Whitney Bienial. It includes artists statments that I recorded striaght from the audio tour. I think artists need drama and public speaking coaching before they are allowed to talk about their work. Oh and a ghost writer to put what they say into a type of English that people can understand would help as well.

By: G.H. Hovagimyan

G.H. Hovagimyan — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:04:10 +0000

I’m doing a new podcast Art Dirt Redux. http://spaghetti.nujus.net/artDirt. The rss feed is http://spaghetti.nujus.net/artDirt/index.xml. This is much more than a straight audio show. I’m now using mash-up techinques as well as surround sound and multilayered audio. Art Dirt Redux is more sound art although I still doing straight interviews and yes you can get it through iTunes and iPod.

I’m also doing an ongoing video performance piece called RANTAPOD. http://spaghetti.nujus.net/rantapod. This piece is asmuch about using digital tools and databasing as it is about performance. The iTunes feed is http://nujus.net/gh/rantapod/podcast.xml and the rss feed is http://spaghetti.nujus.net/rantapod/index.xml

I’ve also left my entire artistic oeuvre, both the physical objects and the digital files to the Walker Art center in my last will and testament. Since I don’t think anyone reads this; Let’s see how long it takes before anyone notices this statement.

By: djd

djd — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:59:56 +0000

While it's not for museums specifically, another company, Sounds for Sights, is making downloadable audio walking tours for New York City. You do need to plan ahead and load them to your player but after that you're all set to go as you wish. And while 5 bucks is more than nothing, they're a nice change from group walking tours or tour books / pamphlets. http://www.soundsforsights.com

By: Beth Harris

Beth Harris — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:01:25 +0000

You may be interested in these podcasts on works of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art — -we are using these in our online courses.

http://www.smarthistory.blogspot.com

Beth Harris

Steven Zucker

By: eric

eric — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:47:29 +0000

Well not a podcast exactly but there is the Culture TV project that started up recently. It looks like they just redesigned teir site. I remember being horrified at the compression they used on video before. It's not as bad now but the playback through their Java player seems choppy. There are a lot of podcasts in the iTunes music store but I don't have a specific non-institutional podcast in mind. I'm sure there is one...

By: Justin Braem

Justin Braem — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:08:13 +0000

This is slightly unrelated, but are any of aware of any podcasts or online radio about contemporary art that aren’t tied to a particular institution or collection?

Obviously there’s the occasional NPR feature etc. But has anything come along to fill the gap after G.H. Hovagimyan’s ART DIRT died off in the late 90’s?

P.S. I just noticed all the new content on Walker Channel that looks really great.