21st Century Museums: Learning with the Carnegie Innovation Studio (ED)

Perhaps the most audacious program that the Innovation Studio is undertaking is currently in the earliest phases: ArtTracks. ArtTracks is described as “attempting to structure provenance and exhibition history data so curators, scholars, and software developers can create dynamic visualizations that answer impossible questions.” Provenance – or the physical journey that brings artwork to a museum – can often reveal as much about its significance as scholarly inquiry. What did the piece’s journey to the museum look like? Did art pieces arranged together in a collection share an owner or perhaps an inspiration? Was there a moment in time that somehow gave rise to a trend that we’re not yet seeing? The Provenance Visualization Project is digging into the institution’s curatorial files to find out. It’s early days yet, but scoping out the connections within the collections of the Carnegie institution – and eventually more broadly – is very enticing…

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