Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery

TangHudsonPortal

This multi-page exhibition web feature, "Lives of the Hudson," like another that beckons to me from the Tang ("Molecules that Matter"), clearly, creatively, and excitingly leaps out to viewers, enabling them to experience cruising on the Hudson, viewing the work taking place on the river or enjoying the scenery as Skidmore students envisioned the journey; to be in the gallery itself, moving around the exhibit; to listen to members of a lively panel comprised of some of the exhibit's artists moderated by the exhibit's faculty curator, Tom Lewis (author of a book on the Hudson published several years ago).  One can attend an interdisciplinary dialogue on the river and environmental considerations or attend to the "Elevator Music" of the sounds of the Hudson.

Panorama viewer for QTVR slideshow

Many other features comprise an easily navigated web environment that offers a dramatic experience of the living, interactive, cross-disciplinary ambitions of exhibits presented and experienced directly at the Tang; indeed, in the possibility of "attending" all events via the web, this site is especially rich in multiple modes of telling those lives of the Hudson.  Particularly evident here, adding another layer to the experience of those who go to the web, is the especially distinctive presence of faculty and students who are not viewers passing through but contributors along with the curators, analysts, creators, and discussants.  This additional and mission-driven dimension  contributes its own narrative toward generating a greater self-awareness to experiencing an exhibit and understanding what enables it to live to tell vibrant stories across disciplines and audiences.

Launch page for student-created feature for Lives of the Hudson

"Working River" opening page to "Lives of the Hudson, an Online Journey" 

Video streams for "Lives of the Hudson"