New York, December 2005
Antenna Audio, in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art, announces the launch of Follow Through, an interactive, mobile media project that encourages visitors to study their own behavior while viewing artwork in the museum's Permanent Collection. Created by Jennifer Crowe and Scott Paterson, and co-commissioned by Antenna Audio and the Whitney Museum, Follow Through explores the discrepancy between the often-energetic art on display in the museum’s fifth floor galleries and the traditionally passive body language of visitors.
Available on Antenna Audio's portable multimedia players, Follow Through invites visitors to perform a series of simple exercises and movements. Visitors are instructed to stretch, shuffle their feet, cross their arms, and more, while viewing the items on display. These activities, which were distilled from numerous observations of visitors within the Permanent Collection, are intended to drive individuals to examine their chosen movements in the gallery and the lack of connection between those movements and the work on view. 'The goal is to bring well-established behavioral codes of museum attendance into relief,' said Crowe and Paterson. 'We want visitors to gain a new perspective on being a viewer and participant in a museum space.'
Antenna Audio, the leading supplier of interpretive services at cultural sites worldwide, sponsored and co-commissioned this unique project as part of its ongoing commitment to innovation in the field of mobile media technology. 'Antenna Audio is eager to support the digital arts, and we are proud to have offered our hardware as a platform for the Follow Through project', said CEO Andrew Nugée. 'The piece is original, thought-provoking, and incredibly interactive – a brilliant extension of our media players’ capabilities.'
Follow Through debuts December 1st, 2005 and runs through January 29th, 2006 at the Whitney Museum in New York.
About the Artists
Jennifer Crowe is currently a new media producer in New York. Trained in the arts, her education includes an MA from Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies and a BA in Visual Arts and Communication from the University of California, San Diego. Jennifer has broad experience in the arts with a special interest in digital archives and fine art preservation. Highlights include curating exhibitions at A.I.R. Gallery and The New Museum, initiating Rhizome.org's Artbase, an online archive for Net-based artworks, and producing online companions for Peabody-Award winning art television shows at Thirteen/WNET New York Public Television. She has coordinated digital video archiving projects for Yale University, the Dance Heritage Coalition, and the EU's international video preservation project PrestoSpace. She has lectured at various venues including the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, the American Museum of the Moving Image, and the Guggenheim Museum.
Scott Paterson is an architect, interaction designer, and artist based in New York. He teaches studio courses in the MFA in Design and Technology Program at the Parsons School of Design and has also taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture. Trained as an architect, his education includes a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota and a Masters degree from Columbia University. He has received grants from the Walker Art Center, Parsons School of Design, and The Design Institute at the University of Minnesota. Paterson lectures internationally and his work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, as well as in venues in Amsterdam, Berlin, Florence, and Mexico City.
About the Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum of American Art is the leading advocate of 20th- and 21st-century American art. Founded in 1930, the Museum is regarded as the preeminent collection of American art and includes major works and materials from the estate of Edward Hopper, the largest public collection of works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, and Lucas Samaras, as well as significant works by Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol, among other artists. With its history of exhibiting the most promising and influential American artists and provoking intense critical and public debate, the Whitney's signature show, the Biennial, has become a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today.
For more information visit:
artport.whitney.org/commissions/followthrough/
About Antenna Audio
For 20 years Antenna Audio has been the leader in the field of digital audio and multimedia interpretation, providing the highest quality programming, equipment solutions and service, with the goal of creating an emotionally and intellectually engaging experience for visitors to museums, historic sites, and attractions. Over 70 million people worldwide have experienced an Antenna Audio tour at more than 800 sites, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, London, the Louvre, Edinburgh Castle, the Alcatraz Cellhouse, and Elvis Presley's Graceland.
For further details please contact:
Sarah Dines
Antenna Audio
P.O. Box 176
Sausalito, CA 94966
t: 415 332 4862
e:
Antenna Audio, in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art, announces the launch of Follow Through, an interactive, mobile media project that encourages visitors to study their own behavior while viewing artwork in the museum's Permanent Collection. Created by Jennifer Crowe and Scott Paterson, and co-commissioned by Antenna Audio and the Whitney Museum, Follow Through explores the discrepancy between the often-energetic art on display in the museum’s fifth floor galleries and the traditionally passive body language of visitors.
Available on Antenna Audio's portable multimedia players, Follow Through invites visitors to perform a series of simple exercises and movements. Visitors are instructed to stretch, shuffle their feet, cross their arms, and more, while viewing the items on display. These activities, which were distilled from numerous observations of visitors within the Permanent Collection, are intended to drive individuals to examine their chosen movements in the gallery and the lack of connection between those movements and the work on view. 'The goal is to bring well-established behavioral codes of museum attendance into relief,' said Crowe and Paterson. 'We want visitors to gain a new perspective on being a viewer and participant in a museum space.'
Antenna Audio, the leading supplier of interpretive services at cultural sites worldwide, sponsored and co-commissioned this unique project as part of its ongoing commitment to innovation in the field of mobile media technology. 'Antenna Audio is eager to support the digital arts, and we are proud to have offered our hardware as a platform for the Follow Through project', said CEO Andrew Nugée. 'The piece is original, thought-provoking, and incredibly interactive – a brilliant extension of our media players’ capabilities.'
Follow Through debuts December 1st, 2005 and runs through January 29th, 2006 at the Whitney Museum in New York.
About the Artists
Jennifer Crowe is currently a new media producer in New York. Trained in the arts, her education includes an MA from Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies and a BA in Visual Arts and Communication from the University of California, San Diego. Jennifer has broad experience in the arts with a special interest in digital archives and fine art preservation. Highlights include curating exhibitions at A.I.R. Gallery and The New Museum, initiating Rhizome.org's Artbase, an online archive for Net-based artworks, and producing online companions for Peabody-Award winning art television shows at Thirteen/WNET New York Public Television. She has coordinated digital video archiving projects for Yale University, the Dance Heritage Coalition, and the EU's international video preservation project PrestoSpace. She has lectured at various venues including the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, the American Museum of the Moving Image, and the Guggenheim Museum.
Scott Paterson is an architect, interaction designer, and artist based in New York. He teaches studio courses in the MFA in Design and Technology Program at the Parsons School of Design and has also taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture. Trained as an architect, his education includes a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota and a Masters degree from Columbia University. He has received grants from the Walker Art Center, Parsons School of Design, and The Design Institute at the University of Minnesota. Paterson lectures internationally and his work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, as well as in venues in Amsterdam, Berlin, Florence, and Mexico City.
About the Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum of American Art is the leading advocate of 20th- and 21st-century American art. Founded in 1930, the Museum is regarded as the preeminent collection of American art and includes major works and materials from the estate of Edward Hopper, the largest public collection of works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, and Lucas Samaras, as well as significant works by Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol, among other artists. With its history of exhibiting the most promising and influential American artists and provoking intense critical and public debate, the Whitney's signature show, the Biennial, has become a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today.
For more information visit:
artport.whitney.org/commissions/followthrough/
About Antenna Audio
For 20 years Antenna Audio has been the leader in the field of digital audio and multimedia interpretation, providing the highest quality programming, equipment solutions and service, with the goal of creating an emotionally and intellectually engaging experience for visitors to museums, historic sites, and attractions. Over 70 million people worldwide have experienced an Antenna Audio tour at more than 800 sites, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, London, the Louvre, Edinburgh Castle, the Alcatraz Cellhouse, and Elvis Presley's Graceland.
For further details please contact:
Sarah Dines
Antenna Audio
P.O. Box 176
Sausalito, CA 94966
t: 415 332 4862
e:
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