Comments on Open Museum: Learning to Look with Slow Art

I loved the video--only wish it were longer.

2009-10-23T09:47:24.986-04:00

I loved the video--only wish it were longer.

This blog post was reprinted on A Reading Odyssey ...

2009-10-22T10:30:55.539-04:00

This blog post was reprinted on A Reading Odyssey by Phil Terry, the Founder of the Reading Odyssey, Slow Art and Creative Good: See the reprint: http://showsupport.typepad.com/odyssey/2009/10/seeing-the-troubled-queen.html

2009-10-22T10:29:07.313-04:00

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Some viewers have asked whether the sound is broke...

2009-10-21T23:56:58.895-04:00

Some viewers have asked whether the sound is broken in the video.

The only sound in the video is the ambient sound that I recorded standing in front of the painting - footsteps, the murmur of voices, and in the background, sounds of singing from a multimedia installation.

When we are looking at a painting, we often don't notice that we are also hearing things because we assume that the "real" experience is visual.

The anecdote of Agissiz and the fish is all about getting beyond what we are "supposed" to see, and learning to look for ourselves.

The map is not the terrain. This is not a pipe. Art is a contact sport.