The Italian Ministry of Culture has confirmed the Omero State Tactile Museum of Ancona as the organizer of the second edition of the Omero Award. This decision supports an initiative that promotes among contemporary artists an aesthetic based on accessibility and multisensoriality. The museum is a benchmark in this field and its work is key to Ancona's candidacy as Italian Capital of Culture 2028, which has the sea as its central narrative axis.
Technology and development at the service of expanded perception 🦾
The award promotes the creation of works that integrate technical solutions for a complete perceptual experience. This involves the use of materials with different textures, integrated audio-description systems, controlled olfactory elements, or haptic models generated by 3D printing. The technical challenge lies in balancing the artistic proposal with interfaces that allow intuitive and rich interaction for all senses, without one channel dominating over the others.
What if instead of do not touch they put touch here, smell and listen? 🤔
Imagine the revolution in traditional museums. The stress of room guards chasing your young child, who naturally wants to touch a marble, would end. In the future, the regulation would change: Interaction MANDATORY. Of course, then we would have the opposite problem: users glued to a sculpture smelling it for twenty minutes, or arguing whether the sound it emits should be high-pitched or low. Chaos, but inclusive chaos.