Designed to serve as a capstone experience for visitors to the Harvard Art Museum, the Object Map greets the visitor with a mosaic of thumbnail images of the 1803 objects, each scaled to occupy the same area irrespective of its actual physical size, that are on display on the Harvard Art Museum’s galleries below. Navigating them with an air mouse, she can settle upon and click on any one of these works, perhaps on the basis of a faint memory or curiosity, triggering an overlay which exposes...
