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'TakeItArtside' App Featured at Public Art Symposium

 

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 21, 2011) − The University of Kentucky faculty behind Kentucky's first public art smartphone application have been asked to present at the "Public Art and the City" Symposium 2011. Lisa Broome-Price and Christine Huskisson, founders of the Kentucky Museum without Walls Project, will present on the "TakeItArtside!" app at 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 22, at Chao Auditorium in the University of Louisville's Ekstrom Library, in Louisville. 

Conference organizers are billing 2011 as an anniversary of a critical turning point in the history of public art.  In 1981, new dialogue emerged about public art centered on such noted works of public art as Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc" and Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

According to Huskisson, an adjunct faculty member at UK Department of Art, 2011 may also mark a significant turning point for public art as new technologies are embraced.

The Kentucky Museum without Walls Project, which now includes the UK Department of Art and Gaines Center for the Humanities, Georgetown College, Transylvania University and Lexington Visual Collective as partners, asks us to consider not only how these technologies can make public art more accessible, but in what ways apps like "TakeItArtside!" represent a new medium for the creation of public art.

Next up for the project organizers of "TakeItArtside!" is the introduction of their first work of art via the phone app, which will address how you develop a local product in a virtual environment.

"The intention is to make us more aware and appreciative of a local space and place through mobile technologies," says Huskisson.

To see a demonstration of how the "TakeItArtside!" app works, click play on the video below.

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Click here to view a transcript of the video by Jenny Wells/UK Public Relations. 

MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, (859) 257-1754 ext. 229; Whitney.Hale@uky.edu