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AMICO Press Release
July 13, 2000
The Art Museum Image Consortium and Antenna Audio Announce
Long-Term Access to Museum Digital Audio Tours
AMICO Headquarters=3B Pittsburgh, PA
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and Antenna Audio, Inc. have
reached an agreement to link sound files created by Antenna Audio to
corresponding works in the AMICO Library. Antenna Audio, the leading =
creator s
of audio exhibition tours for museums, historic sites, and other visitor
attractions around the world, will make sound files available for works held=
by
AMICO Member museums. AMICO Members may link these digital sounds to the
digital documentation about the work that they have contributed to the AMICO
Library, enhancing its content and leveraging the investments museums and
Antenna Audio made in creating audio tours for exhibitions and collections.
Antenna Audio sound clips will be acknowledged in the online display of the
AMICO Library.
This agreement allows AMICO to further its mission to deliver museum =
multimedia
to educational institutions for academic use, provides Members a streamlined
way to include quality audio content in their AMICO submissions, and helps =
to
highlight Antenna Audio as a leading creator of interpretive tours and audio
assets. =93Working with Antenna Audio is really a win-win - students and
teachers get excellent commentaries on works in the AMICO Library and =
Members
and Antenna Audio gain additional distribution of their audio tours in a
protected, educational use-only environment,=94 notes AMICO Executive =
Director,
Jennifer Trant. Observes Harriet Moss, President and CEO of Antenna Audio,
=93the collaborative aspects of AMICO are very important to Antenna Audio, =
as
well as its focus on educational use. We=92re pleased to be working with =
AMICO
in helping museums utilize digital technologies to expand their interpretive
reach.=94
The world=92s leader and innovator in the field of museum interpretation =
through
audio tools and resources, Antenna Audio is committed to working with =
museums
to enhance the experience of special exhibitions and permanent collections =
for
a wide range of visitors. Its beginnings as a non-profit theater company in
1980 have provided Antenna with the ability to create new ways of using =
audio
guides to educate and engage museum audiences. More than 40,000,000 people
throughout the world have experienced audio programs developed by Antenna at
museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Vatican Museums, the
Louvre, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum, the J. Paul Getty =
Museum
and the National Gallery, London.
The AMICO Library, officially launched July 1st, 1999, has made multimedia
documentation of artworks from the collections of leading museums across =
North
America available to universities, colleges, schools, and public libraries.
The 2000-2001 edition of the AMICO Library documents over 65,000 different
works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary =
installations.
More than simply an image database, works in the AMICO Library are fully
documented and may also include curatorial text about the artwork, detailed
provenance information, multiple views of the work itself, and other related
multimedia. As Jennifer Trant, AMICO Executive Director, notes, =
=93subscribers
find the AMICO Library of interest because it combines the immediacy and
accessibility of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of
traditional library reference sources. Over 700,000 students on more than =
110
campuses in North America currently have full, 24-hour access to =
high-quality
museum multimedia.=94
The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to =
institutional
subscribers, including universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and
museums. Designated users can include faculty, students, teachers, staff, =
and
researchers. Educational institutions may subscribe to the AMICO Library by
contacting one of its distributors. These include the Research Libraries =
Group
(RLG) and the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK). A =
subscription
to the AMICO Library provides a one-year license to use works from the =
compiled
AMICO Library for a broad range of educational purposes. Interested
subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of the AMICO Library and get
further information at http://www.amico.org.
The AMICO Library is a product of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), =
an
independent non-profit corporation, with 501 (c) 3 designation from the IRS.
The Consortium is today made up of 32 major museums. It=92s an innovative
collaboration not seen before in museums that shares, shapes, and
standardizes digital information regarding museum collections and enables =
its
educational use.
Current AMICO Members
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Institute of Chicago
Asia Society Gallery
Center for Creative Photography
Sterling =26 Francine Clark Art Institute
Cleveland Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Denver Art Museum
Detroit Institute of Arts
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library
George Eastman House
J. Paul Getty Museum
The Library of Congress
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Mus=E9e d'art contemporain de Montr=E9al
Museum of the Americas Foundation
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Canada
Philadelphia Museum of Art
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Walker Art Center
Whitney Museum of American Art
Contact Information:
AMICO
Jennifer Trant, Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium Phone (412) 422 8533
2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D Fax (412) 422 8594
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Email: jtrant=40amico.org
http://www.amico.org
Antenna Audio
Harriet Moss, President and CEO Phone (415) 332 4862
Antenna Audio, Inc. Fax (415) 332 4870
PO Box 176 Email: =
hmoss=40antenna-audio.com
Sausalito, CA 94966
http://www.antenna-audio.com
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Kelly Richmond
Communications Director
Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
2008 Murray Ave, Suite D
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA
phone: +1 412 422 8533
fax: +1 412 422 8594
http://www.amico.org
kelly=40amico.org
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