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At the Museum of New and Old Art in Hobart, <\/span>there’s a photo called “Family of the Future, 9”.\u00a0The guy that owns the photo, David Walsh<\/a>, describes the photo as “Fucking disgusting. This is absolutely fucking disgusting.”<\/em><\/p>\n

David’s\u00a0poignant thoughts on his photo of a guy getting done doggy style by a dog (no really, that is the photo – NSFW<\/a>), was brought to me by the nerds at Art Processors. I think without Art Processors work, I would have ever seen what David Walsh thought of that photo and I’d be forever wondering, “why? Why does this exist here, why did this bloke buy it? What does he think of it?”<\/em> – simply annotating David’s stuff with a sign wouldn’t do it justice, even if in this example, all he does is say that he thinks it’s disgusting too.<\/p>\n

Instead of a white\u00a0square up on the wall near the photo, all the information\u00a0you’d want to\u00a0know about it are on an iPod touch called The O. You get one when you enter MONA and it’s your personal tour guide, interjecting facts and interviews regarding\u00a0the artworks with David Walsh’s opinions\u00a0on the stuff he’s spent over $200 million on. There’s no signage anywhere, so it’s you and The O, wandering around a dark labyrinth of bat shit crazy art for a few hours until the place closes and they kick you out.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Without Art Processors, MONA wouldn’t be MONA.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The story of Art Processors and how they created their elegant indoor positioning and content presentation system is probably best told by one of the guys that created it, Scott Brewer. Here’s a video of him discussing The O at the One More Thing conference in 2013.<\/p>\n