Metropolitan Museum of Art Collaboration

Much of western sacred art was created to be placed in cathedrals and adorn high altars. This context is lost when art is placed in museums, and even more context may be lost when presenting this art digitally. My collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s digital archive team sought to present re-present this artwork in a narrative context and even restore the potential for this work to be used as a meditative aid.

  • Main View

Mobile Design

 

The Met Open Access API contains over 233,000 objects. It is through data visualization we can begin to unlock the potential of uncovering new stories and uses of this data treasure.

Qualitative Color Study

  • Character Color Study

    I employed a computer vision framework to extract colors from the digital artworks to inform the overall palette.

  • 15th and 16th Century Italian Paintings

    15th & 16th Century Italian Paintings Color Study

    The final concept was to show color palettes contrasting paintings across Italian and Netherlandish painters. I expected the Netherlandish painters to show a greater diversity of vibrant colors, but in reality the Italian painters seemed to show more diversity of colors. The Netherlandish paintings seemed to be dominated by muted beiges.

  • Mystery Color Study

Data Analysis

It was a unique opportunity to present this project to the museum’s Digital Department as well as collection managers across the Met. This experience helped me to think critically about data collection & interesting ways to address qualitative & quantitative data analysis.

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