Experience Ai Weiwei's Royal Academy Show Online in 360 Degrees
Ai Weiwei's retrospective at the Royal Academy last year is now viewable online through a free, navigable, 360 degree multi-sensory experience.
Ai Weiwei's retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts last year was a landmark achievement. 372,13 visitors attended the exhibition over the 86 days it was open in order to experience a comprehensive guide of Weiwei's work. The RA has since created a multi-sensory 360 degree version of the exhibition, viewable online for free.
Captured in stereoscopic 3D, the experience consists of navigable imagery, video and audio channels. Commentary is provided by experts such as co-curators Adrian Locke and Tim Marlow, as well as narration by news reader John Snow, and even a segment by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
The Royal Academy teamed up with development organisation The Space to futurise the exhibition, which artistic director Tim Marlow described as, "intensely powerful and moving. Its installation in the great Beaux-arts spaces of the RA will live long in the memory of all who saw it. And now, thanks to a collaboration with The Space, the experience of this exhibition will live on in this innovative project.”
Is this online immersion indicative of the future of museums? Find out some more contemporary advancements in the gallery world in Tomorrow's Museums are Upping Their Game, and experience Ai Weiwei 360 via the Royal Academy of the Arts now.
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