I am intrigued by these new digital frames. How would you apply them in a Fine Art, Museum exhibition? Create?

Answer 1

I've built a number of my own digital photo frames and I've had some ideas on how to make an artistic display with them.

One of the simpler ideas I had was to take screens of differing sizes and arrange them nicely onto a large single frame, behind a nice matte board. Use maybe one large screen, surrounded by smaller screens. Then you rotate through themed sets of pictures, just like you would see in a print frame of similar layout.

I also thought of creating a freestanding - almost sculpture like - display of screens. I haven't decided how that would work and look as neat as I'd like.

A fine art display would take some major creativity. The use of video displays in art is nothing new. But I'm not sure anything has been done that would be considered fine art.

I think in order to really stand on its own, it couldn't just be a digital display of pictures and/or videos. It would need have a flair of its own. It would need to have its own set of that which invokes emotion and all the things that fine art does to the beholder.

Answer 2

The Dallas Art Museum is using fairly small ones to show activities and examples in their children's section while it is being rebuilt. The Nasher Sculpture Center across the street is using large ones with images of upcoming events and announcements and they could easily be used for more graphically telling what those big labels on the wall say and don't show. Small ones could provide video examples of similar art to major pieces on tour or from the collection.
There are, of course, video artists and presenting their art on these screens would be much more convenient and brighter than having a video projector setup.
Architecture could be presented not only with models and photos but with video walk thru and computer simulations.

Answer 3

Digital frames are really nothing more than a monitor, and like the previous post said, the concept of using monitors in fine-art is nothing new, Nam Jun Paik and Bill Viola are just two of the more prominent names in the international art scene who use monitors and they have been doing it for decades. I would suggest that you look these names up to get a better idea of what can be done with monitors.

Answer 4

It might be interesting to bring viewers into a totally dark room and do some sort of show using frames mounted at various levels from high to low and show just body parts. The frames at eye level could display peoples heads, and the low levels would display feet. And all the frames between could show various body parts. You could hook them all to the same computer and set a show to play different frames at different intervals. That could be fun.

Or, you could put them all side by side and show panoramas.