What happens in museums when all the visitors leave and the lights turn off is no longer just a series of Ben Stiller movies, its now an interactive art project of its own. Later this year, Tate Britain — in London — will employ a small battalion of robots that live stream what they see to remote users on the internet who can actually take control and steer them around to particular pieces. Each unit is equipped with a flashlight, casting a type of light on the works that gallery visitors wouldnt typically see unless they were a real-life character in a Dan Brown novel. The project, called After Dark, was born out of the IK Prize, a contest put on by the museum and designed to enhance public enjoyment of art. After Darks designers, named The Workers, beat out three other projects, including one that aimed to disperse explanatory art placards by social media, another that sought to look the museums art collection from a childs perspective, and a one that would have built classic British art inside a public Minecraft server.
Tate Britain to let visitors view art at night using remote-controlled robots
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