Navigate Taipei museum sans a tour guide

06.08.2012
Armed with their mobile devices, visitors to Taipei's Museum of Contemporary Art can walk through King Hu's exhibit of some of his greatest works and admire his contribution to Chinese cinema without a tour guide.

No worries about getting lost in the museum as the Taipei museum has made the cultural trip a cinematic adventure in itself with the help of technology.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) has tapped the expertise of STMicroelectronics and CSR to develop a technology that allows museum visitors to tour the exhibition by themselves but guided by information available from their mobile devices.

STMicroelectronics, which supplied MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems), and CSR, which provided the interactive platform for mobile devices, have teamed up to provide location-based services to MOCA visitors for the King Hu exhibition.

The exhibition, dubbed "King Hu: The Renaissance Man," marks the 80th birthday of one of the legends of Chinese cinema. According to a MOCA blog (http://www.mocataipei.org.tw/blog/post/28117165), King Hu is one of the most revered directors of Chinese cinema who is known for incorporating Asian aesthetics and modern artistic expression. He won a best director award at the Cannes International Film Festival for his kungfu movie ''A Touch of Zen',' which is hailed as his masterpiece.