With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour - New York Times

People are creating their own unofficial audio tours (or sound-seeing tours) of galleries and museums and making them available online for people to download and play on their own personal MP3 players as a creative alternative to the sometimes stuffy audio tours provided by the institutions.

Part of the motivation for doing this is so that gallery-and-museum-goers become creators, rather than just passive consumers of pre-packaged content.

An art lecturer - Dr. Gilbert - encouraging his students to create their own audio tours said: "his larger point was to try to teach his students to stop being passive information consumers - whether through television, radio or an official audio guide - and to take more control, using as his model the guru of so-called remix culture, Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School."

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