Few people can experience a work of art the way a restorer can: as a tactile, multi-dimensional, ever-changing artifact. The Wetpaint project is seeking to broaden the audience that can appreciate the multifaceted histories of works of visual art through intuitive interfaces that bring the work of art diagnosticians to everyone. Thanks to the multi-spectral images generated by Maurizio Seracini, we are investigating touch-, multi-touch- and web-based tools for investigating the history of renaissance paintings. Our first paper entitled Wetpaint: Scraping Through Multi-Layered Images was presented at CHI 2009 in Boston. The touch screen was exhibited at the New York Italian Cultural Institute in November 2008, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June 2009. You can see a very brief video of our first interface here, and we’ll continue to post more developments as they become public.
Few people can experience a work of art the way a restorer can: as a tactile, multi-dimensional, ever-changing artifact. The Wetpaint project is seeking to broaden the audience that can appreciate the multifaceted histories of works of visual art through intuitive interfaces that bring the work of art diagnosticians to everyone. Thanks to the multi-spectral images generated by Maurizio Seracini, we are investigating touch-, multi-touch- and web-based tools for investigating the history of renaissance paintings. Our first paper entitled Wetpaint: Scraping Through Multi-Layered Images was presented at CHI 2009 in Boston. The touch screen was exhibited at the New York Italian Cultural Institute in November 2008, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June 2009. You can see a very brief video of our first interface here, and we’ll continue to post more developments as they become public.