🗣️ Personal Observations Vary
How can we digitally replicate the experience of going to an art gallery?
Created with Colgate University’s Picker Art Gallery
The Picker Art Gallery needed to display a curation of their work by their student curators. COVID-19 meant they had to cancel the show in person, but it could still happen online. How could a digital gallery still be a space to foster conversation even while we are socially distant?
COVID-19 disrupted many plans, one of which was the in-person Personal Observations Vary art show. Professors Nick West and Carin Wolfe collaborated with us at Antidote to develop the digital experience of the show instead.
Themes of isolation, remote engagement, and asynchronous interaction in meaning-making emerged during their curatorial studies classes in fall 2020. We needed to honor those feelings and also produce an engaging digital gallery experience.
A final sharable poem. There are over 3,000,000 possible final poems generated based on visitor choices.
The online experience borrows ideas from choice-based adventure stories, while combining a history of one’s engagement into a final, sharable artifact gallery visitors could save and share.
