“For old television shows, there’s
Hulu. For college lectures, there’s
iTunes U. And now, for video about art, there’s
ArtBabble.” -
Kate Taylor, New York Times
ArtBabble.org just launch as public beta. I gave it a brief run through and it looks great. It looks young, nice, clean, and is full of potential. It holds a lot of lectures and videos that focus on art, including videos from PBS’s “
Art:21.”
What separates this video site form others are the “notes.” Notes are a series of little blubs that run down the right side of the video. As the video plays the slug hits bookmarks and the “notes” scroll up. Click a note and you get links and other information about what was just mentioned in the video. It reminds me of
youtube links but it doesn’t generally subtract from the experience.
There seems to be no video yet on New Media or Animation, however there is Film. I’m sure that’ll change shortly.
The Indianapolis Museum created and runs the site and I’m sure they want to establish it as a serious virtual forum or web theater focused on tradition art. I can’t imagine that they would not have considered adding New Media Art content so the best reasoning I can think of, is to avoid the appearance of just being a
TedTalk clone or another damn tech site.
My username on Art Babble is grahamGrafx
