USATODAY.com - Personal music players: An artwork in progress
Intriguing article on how some galleries are now offering audio tours as free downloads. Basically bring your own player.
What is more interesting is the idea of anybody being able to do exactly the same thing. The example in the article is Lee Siegel's downloadable tour of what he considers the most overrated and underrated paintings in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Professors could provide commentaries for their pupils, or take an art critic with you to your next museum trip.
And this is just galleries. What is effectively possible is commentaries on virtually anything in the physical world. Audio tours of cities are well established but folks are used to buying something like that from a relatively limited selection. Imagine communities of people providing commentaries on things that interest them.
The only limitation today is you have to download ahead of time. Add GPS and a connection and you could get a random commentary on request.
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