news release

(London) - Acoustiguide is delighted to announce its multimedia iPod tour for the 2007 Turner Prize, held this year for the first time outside London, at Tate Liverpool. This multimedia guide is the first of its kind for the Turner Prize, Britain’s most renowned and controversial award in the visual arts, and is a fitting project for Liverpool, which celebrates its European City of Culture status in 2008.

The exhibition, which runs from 19 October 2007 until 13 January 2008, features work by the four artists who have been short-listed for their contribution to British art in the last twelve months; the prize this year was awarded to Mark Wallinger for his installation State Britain.

Multimedia tour

The tour itself features specially recorded interviews with Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger and nominee Zarina Bhimji, alongside comments from judges Michael Bracewell, Fiona Bradley and Miranda Sawyer and analyses of the works by Tate Liverpool director Christoph Grunenberg and curators Simon Groom and Laurence Sillars.

The multimedia tour is available to all visitors to the exhibition, who are encouraged to borrow an iPod 5G (iPod Video) from the gallery free of charge.

More on the tour at: http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/
turnerprize2007/guide.shtm

Podcast

The tour is also available to download free of charge from iTunes or from the Acoustiguide and Tate Liverpool websites. The MP4 tour can be played on any iPod, personal computer or multimedia device capable of MP4 playback and has proved to be a popular podcast, having reached third place in the iTunes Visual Arts chart. To view the podcast on iTunes visit:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/
wa/viewPodcast?id=268477729
 

About Espro Acoustigide:

Acoustiguide Ltd. is the UK subsidiary of the Espro Acoustiguide Group - a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of multi-lingual audio and multimedia content and hand held interpretive systems that are used in museums, cultural and visitor centers, walking tours and trade shows worldwide. The client base of the Group includes over 450 active sites, and comprises some of the world's best known museums and heritage sites, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Orsay Museum and the Rodin Museum in Paris, the Imperial War Museum and Westminster Abbey in London, the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, the International Antarctic Centre in New Zealand, Jenolan Caves in NSW Australia, the Dresden State Art Collections in Germany and and the Forbidden City in Beijing. For further information, please visit our website at www.acoustiguide.com