MacKenzie Art Gallery launches free digital exhibition toolkit—DETAIL
24 March 2025
The MacKenzie Art Gallery is thrilled to announce the launch of its Digital Exhibition Toolkit & Art Installation Launcher (DETAIL)—a free comprehensive resource to empower more artists, curators, and galleries to produce their own interactive digital art exhibitions.
As digital artists continue to evolve, and push creative boundaries, galleries and exhibition design have not moved at the same pace. Digital art is often compromised to fit into a physical gallery, or relies on ambitious, tech-savvy curators to produce labour intensive boutique solutions to present digital art in its intended format. Over the past three years, the MacKenzie Art Gallery collaborated with digital artists and guest curators to address this problem, resulting in DETAIL, a toolkit that dramatically reduces the barrier to entry for curators seeking to produce their own digital exhibitions.
DETAIL provides a range of tools to accommodate varying levels of technical expertise, including:
- Ready-to-use exhibition templates for beginners
- Unity game engine plugins for advanced customization
- Comprehensive development workflows and documentation
Designed to support multiple exhibition platforms—from web browsers to mobile devices to virtual reality headsets—DETAIL empowers galleries, artists, and curators to create immersive digital exhibitions without requiring extensive technical knowledge (or allows more advance users to focus on more advance or conceptual details).
Developed through three pilot digital exhibitions, DETAIL addresses the complexities of showcasing diverse digital artworks, from web-based pieces to virtual reality installations, and establishes new pathways for digital exhibition-making.
All DETAIL resources are available for free through the MacKenzie Art Gallery website. The toolkit will be accompanied by detailed documentation from pilot exhibitions, offering practical guidance on its applications in professional contexts.
The MacKenzie Art Gallery is grateful for the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts in making this initiative possible.
