Category Archives: Use in Museums

Making Project Qrio

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This video show how much work is required for a mosaic Qr Code!

Rio de Janeiro began installing a series of QR code patterns onto its pavements on Friday 25 January in preparation for the 2016 Olympics, starting at Arpoador by Ipanema Beach. Created with the traditional black and white mosaic tiles that already line the streets in this area.

The Department of Conservation said it plans to implement the QRIO project at 30 locations across the city by the year’s end and 50 locations by July 2014 when Rio hosts the FIFA World Cup.

Sidney Haddad, founding partner of digital technology company Zóio, explained that the idea was inspired by designs from similar projects in cities such as Lisbon and Barcelona that have already adopted the code in Portuguese stones. “We tried to create something with the essence of being cosmopolitan, but with strong cultural roots. We propose to map the city with QR Code technology so that you can access information of a certain place without the need for signs, but through your mobile device.”

Source: YouTube & TheEpochTimes

Humboldt Park Mural Arts Program Qr Codes

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The mission of the Humboldt Park Mural Arts Program (HP MAP) is to create new murals, to restore old murals, and to develop strategies that use murals as a way to represent community issues, ideas, and vision.

Humboldt Park QR Codes

Humboldt Park QR Codes

Take an online tour with pictures and descriptions of the murals in Humboldt Park using small QR code signs installed at select murals that can be scanned with a smartphone and link to a Google map & information about the mural.


View Humboldt Park Mural Arts Program in a larger map

 

Photo QR Code generator

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Found my new favorite photo based QR Code generator; Azonmobile.com. Easy to use, allows photos in background, foreground or as logos. The free Basic plan allows the creation of 10 QR Codes. Their paid plans offer many more features, including tracking location of scans, at a very reasonable price.

Photo by Studiothirty3.com

Source:Azonmobile.com

 

QR Codes at Erarta Art Museum in St. Petersburg

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Erarta in St Petersburg, a contemporary art museum and gallery, features QR Codes that allow visitors to select which language to use to learn about the artwork, artist, suggest a second name for the piece and order a reproduction.

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When a visitor scans the code they’re directed to a landing page for that piece of art with an image to show they’re in the right place and the ability to choose what language to view the information in.

They also get a menu with four options currently, including ‘biography’ with details about the artist and ‘second name’ enabling users to suggest an alternative name for the work.

Next comes ‘art-literature’ allowing anyone to write a few lines, in essay or poetry format, about what they see, how they feel about it etc

Then, if Erarta likes what they’ve written they publish it for all to share which, says Vadim Varvarin, president of the Erarta Fund:

“Helps all our guests build more of a personal connection to contemporary art.”

The fourth and final option is ‘Take Home’ where the museum’s workshop creates a reproduction of the work of art to any scale so the user can own it.

The screenshot below shows what users see after scanning the QR Code®:

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Source: www.tnooz.com

QR Codes Turn a City into a Library

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A non-profit group called Project Pingeborg is working to promote reading, music and art among the population of Klagenfurt by turning their city into a library. This project is still in the early stages, but what they’ve done so far is to place 100 QR codes around the city:

The QR codes each lead to a particular ebook or mp3, all of which can be downloaded for free. According to Project Pingeborg, the mp3s are drawn from Librivox, the CC licensed audiobook project, while the ebooks are pulled from Project Gutenberg which now offers over 40 thousand titles, including around a thousand in German (according to Project Pingeborg).

Who is behind the project Ingeborg? 
The idea came to Georg Holzer and Bruno Hautzenberger after a few cool beers in the Klagenfurt Jazzkeller Kamot. The two wanted to do something with the NFC wireless technology. Klagenfurt – Literature – Bachmann Prize … all this led to a lengthy brainstorming creating pingeb.org.
Without the cooperation of many other (Kerstin Rosenzopf, Iris Wedenig, Verena Artinger or Daniel Gollner) would not have been possible.

Source: the-digital-reader.com and Project Pingeborg

Tour Tampa Bay Architecture – AIA Tampa Bay

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AIA Tampa Bay presents  the Tour Tampa Bay Architecture. A self-guided walking tour of significant architecture in Downtown Tampa. An interesting array of 22 historic, modern, sustainable, award-winning and critically acclaimed buildings and locations are featured. Information is accessible once your reach the building by scanning a QR Code that has been placed on or near it. This way you are able to truly appreciate and experience it.

Interesting site, featuring Responsive Web Design using the WordPress theme Knead to present the site in a web and mobile friendly format! Knead web site explains “By having a site which is “device agnostic” you ensure that whoever is visiting your site will have the best browsing experience possible on the device they are viewing it with. No compromise.”

Source: YouTube and tourtampabayarchitecture.com

Cobblestone QR Code 2

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Here is another video about some excellent cobblestone QR Codes from Portugal. You can actually scan the QR Code 46 seconds into the video, scan the QR Code displayed on the phone/ The QR first QR Code decodes to http://bin.pt/lx, which take you to an excellent mobile web site in Portuguese and English with audio of the installation!

  • The idea was simple; make a QR Code, one of the most innovative technologies of the 21ST CENTURY, with paving stones, one of the oldest Portuguese traditions.The fusion of technology and tradition (English)
  • Ideia era simples; fazer um QR Code, uma da mais inovadoras tecnologias do SEC XXI, com pedras de calçada portuguesa, uma das mais antigas tradições portuguesas.Da fusão da tecnologia e da tradição (Portuguese)

Source: YouTube

QR Code Covered Pavilion

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 ”Certainly one of the most eye-catching out of the over 50 national pavilions at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is the one representing Russia. Dubbed “easily the most popular pavilion in the Giardini” by World Architects, Russia’s pavilion shocks its visitors as every surface inside of it is covered in QR codes. Visitors are encouraged to enter the innovation city called Skolkovo and use iPads to decode the concept for the actual Skolkovo, which is Russia’s futuristic city-in-planning (their equivalent of a Silicon Valley) which will be located near Moscow.”

See more amazing photos at: mymodernmet.com

 Source: mymodernmet.com

Lemp Building QR Code Mural

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The mural is made up of “extremely precise” QR code panels. Walking by, you see the mural is composed of hundreds of QR codes, each a link to a Syracuse arts organization.

 It was a year-long project, funded by research grants. See more photos on the Facebook page.

Source: Facebook and blog.syacuse.com