According to an article from artdaily.org, the J. Paul Getty Museum, located in Los Angeles, will be increasing its distribution of video and images online.
The Getty will now be posting videos of exhibitions on ArtBabble, an online video-sharing forum created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. A few of the other participating museums include the Guggenheim, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Erin Coburn, head of the Getty’s Collection Information and Access department, says that Art Babble is quickly building a community of art lovers by fostering discussion, sharing and exploration online.
The Getty has also recently launched its presence on YouTube. “We produce videos with an eye toward their life and usefulness beyond our own galleries, and YouTube and ArtBabble are ideal sites for sharing our material,” says Coburn.
The Getty receives many requests for copies of its videos to be used by other educational and cultural institutions. The use of ArtBabble and YouTube by the Getty will allow users to easily embed, download or stream high-quality copies from the museum for their own educational use.
In addition, the Getty recently began posting images of works from the museum and the Getty Villa in Malibu on Flickr.
The Getty Center is using these outlets to make its collections accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, anywhere in the world, and, thus, to engage with the public more directly.
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