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MIT List Visual Arts Center
The MIT List Visual Arts Center manages a large collection of internationally-known art including dozens of sculptures which are located throughout the MIT campus. They also present changing exhibitions throughout the year and operate a student loan art program that allows MIT students to borrow art for display in their dorms and apartments.
List hired 501creative to completely overhaul their website to make it more useful to viewers and help increase the visibility of their programs and collections. Of primary concern was replacing their static public art map with an interactive map that would give the public an easy and entertaining way to learn more about the amazing works of art spread around the MIT campus.
The finished site is fully database-driven. A portion of the site content is managed via a customized web-enabled content management system built on open-source code. The rest of the site content - the List artwork collection - is pulled automatically from List’s offline Embark® database. When staff update the Embark database, the changes are automatically fed to the website. Each detail of the artwork, from photos and description to artist biographical information, is added to the website in one step, saving countless hours of staff time.
The most exciting part of the MIT List Visual Arts Center website is the interactive Public Art map. This Flash application allows visitors to browse by artist, thumbnail or map location, and provides links to details in the collections area of the website with more information about the piece. The map features Flash animation and navigation effects that make it fun to use. And like the rest of the List collection, art on the map is automatically added when the collections database is updated.
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