© Courtesy of RMN–Grand Palais (Louvre museum) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi / Julien Wylleman / Sarah Landel / Ikonikat Ikonikat interface displaying Peasant Family in an Interior by Louis Le Nain.
The Louvre-Lens museum and its partner, the CNRS, are conducting a novel research project during the museum's Le Nain exhibit: The Le Nain mystery. In all, 600 museum visitors will be using tablets to highlight what most captivates their attention in seven works on display. This tablet input collected throughout the exhibit's duration—from 22 March to 26 June 2017—will be recorded and processed using Ikonikat software. Researchers will use it to determine whether visitors focus on the same details that professionals find most noteworthy. The findings will help the museum redefine how artwork is presented to visitors. Why ask museum visitors to tell us what they see in a work of art when they can just show us' Ikonikat is the fruit of research coordinated by Mathias Blanc of the Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion (CNRS / Université Lille 3). The application lets people identify those aspects of an artwork they think are salient by drawing on an image of it.
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