Credit: Jimmy King“David Bowie Is,” the expansive exhibit saluting the influential rocker’s multifaceted career, closed on July 15 after a four-month run at New York City’s Brooklyn Museum of Art, but the display will soon reemerge in digital form. The virtual version of the exhibition initially will debut this fall as an augmented reality experience for smartphones that’s being developed by Sony Music Entertainment, the David Bowie Archive and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, where the actual exhibit debuted in 2013.
A digital display then will be made available for all virtual-reality and augmented-reality platforms starting in the spring of 2019.
“David Bowie Is” featured more than 300 items from the late Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s archives, spanning his teenage years to his death at age 69 in January 2016. Among the memorabilia were stage costumes, instruments, handwritten set lists and lyrics, personal sketches, set designs, diary entries and much more.
The virtual version of the exhibit will feature a series of audio-visual areas where the viewer can experience aspects of and artifacts from various parts of Bowie’s life and career. The displays will offer high-res 3D scans of the many items from the exhibition.
The digital experience will be offered in nine languages, just like the physical exhibit was.
The David Bowie Archive will donate part of the proceeds raised by the digital versions of “David Bowie Is” to the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Find out the latest news on the virtual exhibit by visiting DavidBowieIsReal.com.
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