Accessible interpretation, built into the exhibition.

Exhibit XO gives visitors a self-directed way to explore approved visual description, context, testimony, provenance, and uncertainty alongside the artwork. This dossier proposes a bounded museum pilot using A Marine’s Disposable War, beginning with one or two works in the browser; AI and custom hardware are optional.

01 · The proposal

Begin with one artwork-led institutional pilot.

Exhibit XO would begin with A Marine’s Disposable War as the governed reference project. The first test uses one or two of its fifteen photographs and a browser-based companion that visitors explore at their own pace.

Visitors choose the depth

Open visual description, context, testimony, authorship, connections, and uncertainty only when useful.

The museum keeps control

Approved sources, visible attribution, and human review govern what is released, corrected, or withdrawn.

The pilot stays bounded

Begin in a browser with AMDW. AI, artwork recognition, audio, and gallery hardware remain optional.

Thousands of long, empty artillery propellant cases cover the ground and recede toward a low horizon. Dark open case mouths punctuate the pile beneath a broad pale sky. — Spent. Photograph by Kenny Bass. Photograph 15 of 15.

Disability should not mark the edge of someone’s encounter with art.

The pilot tests whether visitors can reach meaningful interpretation without being separated from the artwork or forced through a fixed sequence.

The browser-based Core requires no AI, account, proprietary app, special hardware, or default visitor tracking.