in such a manner far "online museum" have been pleasing hohum affairs.

in such a manner far "online museum" have been pleasing hohum affairs, consisting mostly of links to artists' Web draws or digitized versions of works from an institution's collection. The Guggenheim's forthcoming cyberspace "branch" (slated to expand by year's end) aims to change all that.

Of course, we've been hearing promises of the Guggenheim Virtual Museum's imminent first attempt for years, but at least now if you visit www.guggenheim.org, you'll find a listing for the cyberspace outpost Click upon the "Virtual Guggenheim" link and you'll diocese 3-D computer renderings that direct the eye like set designs for a sci-fi movie. merely this is real-or soon to be, Drutt who is spearheading the scheme "Visitors to the Virtual Guggenheim will find it antithetical to existing Web design," Drutt says. "After all the Guggenheim has disentangleed the accidental tradition of creating vanguard settings in which to view art."

The goal to not past nor future online architecture as groundbreaking as the offline sites created through Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry Drutt enlisted just discovered York's Asymptote Architects--who recently finished updating the novel York Stock Exchange's Virtual Trading Floor--to design a faux--3-D digital "structure" that will make visitors be excited like they're moving physically rather than just clicking, by means of the website. Shows will feature work produc specially for the Guggenheim, along the lines of Shu Lea Cheang's Web narrative Brandon, which the museum commissioned in 1997

Asymptote's prototype anticipates like a soupedup version of the starship Enterprise and promises the experience of flying by means of virtual hallways and multifaceted digital "room"--as well as the opportunity to participate in interactive online adventures Beam us up Scotty.

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