Immersive art installations: who visits them, why, and where they're headed...with Kate Sharkey, painter and a 'host' at ARTECHOUSE
New Jersey-based painter and immersive art museum \u2018host\u2019 Kate Sharkey talks about:
Transitioning from being a preparator (at MoMA) to getting a job as a \u2018host\u2019 at the immersive art museum ARTECHOUSE, where she also does AV/tech work w/the projectors; what her job as host entails, including interacting with and managing guests\u2019 experiences (some who do something called \u2018candyflipping')whether or not immersive art experiences are actually \u2018art,\u2019 and which immersive art shows have worked best at ARTECHOUSE, particularly a work by Julius Hosthuis; and we talk about whether immersive art exhibits qualify as \u2018art\u2019 or \u2018entertainment,\u2019 and what other forms of entertainment they\u2019re competing with.