The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and Telstra have forged a new technology partnership to help take contemporary art to new parts of the country and launch Australian Artists to a wider global audience.
Australians, who previously couldn’t view the MCA’s exhibitions and programs due to their geographical location, can now access them online and learn more about contemporary art, through a new digital video and audio gallery, thanks to Telstra’s high-speed broadband technology and Viocorp.
Digital technology is central to the Museum’s planned re-development, which will feature a National Centre for Creative Learning. This will include a multi-media classroom, a digital classroom and a new lecture theatre, enabling education events to be streamed to schools across the country and beyond.
This partnership aims to build the MCA into a Centre of Excellence in online education and give it a digital presence that is surpassed by few contemporary art museums world-wide.
Image: Meridian installation view at the MCA, 2003. Photo: Jane Dyson/ The Sydney Morning Herald
Hugh Bradlow
Hugh S. Bradlow is Chief Technology Officer for Telstra and is responsible for investigating the future technologies that will impact Telstra’s business. Prior to joining Telstra in September 1995, Professor Bradlow was Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Wollongong.
