The Museum of stolen and missing art in virtual reality
ARTinvestment.RU   12 февраля 2015

The first Museum exhibition devoted to the artifacts stolen in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the most well-known masterpieces stolen from museums around the world

using virtual reality technology "Oculus Rift" created the Museum of stolen and missing art. In this Museum you can walk with audioguide and look at works of art, real whereabouts are now unknown. Project author: Ziv Schneider (Ziv Schneider) is a graduate School of arts sell at new York University with a degree in interactive telecommunications Program (Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)". Visual images were taken Ziv from the database of stolen art, the FBI and Interpol. The purpose of the Museum - give visitors the chance to see the now missing from the museums of art, to ensure recognition of the stolen works and thus help in their return, as well as to draw public attention to the problem of looting of the museums and monuments of culture - especially in the military konfliktov@

the Premiere of the Museum of stolen art in virtual reality took place in late December at the exhibition ITP. However, in the Museum yet (for his visit requires special equipment). On the development of the Museum Ziv Schneider was partly inspired by an exhibition of French artist Sophie Calle (Sophie Calle) 1991, under which it is through pictures and memories of curators, conservators and guardians pondered stolen from a Museum Isabella Stewart Gardner masterpieces, about the void that they left behind. Schneider decided to fill this void, hanging on the walls of the virtual Museum painting-ghosts with their descriptions istorii@

First virtual exhibition at the Museum of Ziva devoted to artifacts illegally removed from Afghanistan. In particular, from the National Museum in Kabul, which consisted of up to 100 thousand exhibits, 1979 was stolen about 70 % exhibits. The next exhibition tells the story of art stolen in Iraq (especially from the National Museum during the invasion of the American army in 2003). The third exposure time will tell about the most famous stolen Museum exhibits in the world - including 13 masterpieces stolen in 1990 from the Museum Isabella Stewart Gardner.  

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Источники: hyperallergic.com, zivschneider.com, artinvestment.ru