At the virtual space of Miyashita Park in Shibuya Ward (name: Powered by PARALLEL SITE), which opened in July of this year, let's enjoy art in the virtual space of "Art x Digital-Miyashita Park" for elementary school students. ! ~ ”Was held on October 28th.
In this project, local elementary school students will experience the virtual art exhibition "I will explain the paintings of Nai Yamamoto!", Which is being held in the virtual space of Miyashita Park, to show the history behind the paintings and works. It was held as a workshop to think about the possibilities of the virtual space of the park together while having them learn. The virtual space of Miyashita Park, which was the venue (Shibuya Ward Miyashita Park Powered by PARALLEL SITE, was opened as a demonstration experiment for the advanced use of the park in collaboration with Future Design Shibuya, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., and Miyashita Park Partners. It's a space.
"Shibuya Ward Miyashita Park Powered by PARALLEL SITE"https://shibuya-miyashitapark.parallel-city.jp
In the first half of the experience session, the staff of Future Design Shibuya explained the virtual space that has become a hot topic recently, and explained the space unique to virtual and how to enjoy communication. In the second half, participants actually entered the virtual art exhibition being held in the virtual space of Miyashita Park with an avatar and enjoyed the viewing experience unique to virtual.
At the end of the experience session, the participating elementary school students exchanged opinions about their impressions of seeing the pictures in the virtual space for the first time and what they would like to do in the virtual space, and the experience session ended.
About "I will explain the paintings of Nai Yamamoto!"
Nai Yamamoto, a model who has a deep knowledge of painting, will be the curator, and 34 masterpieces will be selected, and the theme of "actually an interesting world of painting" will be the audio commentary from a unique perspective.
This is an exhibition with ingenuity unique to virtual, such as displaying subtitles of explanations according to the explanations and enlarging a part of the picture. While the chances of going to overseas museums are limited due to the corona, it is a project where you can enjoy paintings from all over the world, which are difficult to collect in one place.
(Currently, the exhibition of this art exhibition has ended)
Impressions of children who experienced painting appreciation in virtual space
It was the first time for all the participants to experience the virtual space, but they soon got used to the operation of the avatar and enjoyed watching the paintings in the virtual space.
In the frame, the mechanism that the picture moves according to the audio guide and the animation appears is the impression that "It is different from what you usually see at museums!" And "I am not familiar with painting. You can learn while having fun without getting bored. "
Also, it would be interesting if you could study not only art but also arithmetic and music with the mechanism unique to virtual space! The idea presentation was very exciting, such as the unique idea unique to elementary school students.
Future Design Shibuya, we will continue to plan and consider ways to utilize virtual spaces and disseminate information for the region, in collaboration with local people.
