Thanks to a kind twinvitation* from Nancy Proctor, the Head of New Media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, I have just done a review of the provocative new iPhone app “How It Is” from Tate Modern. The full review is available at the Museum Mobile Wiki site.
The app is a companion piece for Polish artist Miroslav Balka’s current installation of the same name, on view in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, and it is part of what I argue is a more or less continuous suite of experiences that includes the artwork itself, an “exploration” web site, and the app. So long as you follow the advice I stumbled on, and make sure to experience the app in a dark room with headphones on, you may agree with my conclusions: that this is a great, perhaps even revolutionary, new museum mobile project.
* An invitation made through Twitter?
