ArtMaps: A Technology for Looking at Tate's Collection

Abstract

AcceptedArticleGiannachi, G., Sinker, R., Stack, J., Locatelli, C., Carletti, L., Price, D., McAuley, D., Coughlan, T. and Benford, S. (2015) 'ArtMaps: A Technology for Looking at Tate’s Collection', Leonardo. Available at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/LEON_a_01078#.VrxtcmfcvcuThis article presents ArtMaps, a crowdsourcing web-based app for desktop and mobile use that allows users to locate, move and annotate artworks in the Tate collection in relation to one or more sets of locations. Here we show that ArtMaps extends the ‘space’ of the museum and facilitates a new, pluriperspectival, way of looking at art.RCU