The Getty Foundation has announced a new global initiative to advance museum interpretation practices – and ACMI is one of 11 arts and museum organisations worldwide to be selected for the pilot round of projects.
The $345,000 grant will enable the museum to progress innovative work on multilingual captioning software that will make time-based artworks more accessible to visitors who speak diverse languages and are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
Multilingual access is especially complex for time-based media, and ACMI’s long-standing visitor-centered practice, collections and staff expertise put us in a good position to help the wider museum sector adopt and implement new forms of access
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ACMI is dedicated to making the new technology available to other museums and arts organisations, and to share our work-in-progress and learnings throughout.
Head of Experience, Digital and Insights Lucie Paterson recently unpacked how digital labels, synced captions and AI translations improved access to the museum's exhibition, Reverb: This is a journey into sound. The experience was designed to support the audience's access needs without compromising the artwork – and the team was ready to rise to the challenge.
Read the ACMI Labs article on Medium to find out more.
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