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The impact of new digital technologies is affecting museums and galleries all over the world in m... more The impact of new digital technologies is affecting museums and galleries all over the world in multiple ways. This digital boom is encouraging the creation of new art forms, which are challenging the traditional art museum internally. New media art is one of those movements and thus is the focus of this study. Having variable characteristics and complex mediums, the art museum has been struggling to understand and make a part of its collections new media art.
Therefore, this dissertation will be aiming at the challenges that new media art has been bringing to the art museum concerning presentation, collection and preservation by looking at the changes that two influential art institutions experienced to finally accept this complex art form into their collections and commissions.
The research method for this piece of work combines a literature review with two case studies. The case studies will be analysed in detail and then discussed regarding the questions posed at the beginning of this study.
This research concludes that one can acknowledge the art museum must change its frameworks and structures to properly present, collect and preserve new media art and that efforts ought to be made in this regard. Due to the very special characteristics of new media art, art museums in general are still struggling with this type of art, although there are some institutions that are already totally engaged with it.
It is clear that art institutions are constantly changing, and in the past few years quite radica... more It is clear that art institutions are constantly changing, and in the past few years quite radically. Museums are now becoming places of direct engagement with artworks and artists and not just for contemplation. Some institutions have shifted their frameworks to be able to accommodate video, large-scale installations, new media art and performance art.
Early in the 20th century, artists started to get involved in performances to defy the object centred art of the time. Since then, performance art has been present in the art world as a valid medium of expression.
However, many museums and galleries were overlooking the significance of this type of art mainly because of the difficulty of integrating it in the traditional museum structure. One of the issues of performance is the absence of a solid material/de-objectification and its transitory and ephemeral characteristics. Nevertheless, performance art is reaching a much more prominent position within the contemporary art museum in the last few years.
Therefore, we must question what changes ought to be done to engage performance art within the foundations of the art museum. Being the art institution the ideal place to conserve, collect and present art, how can an ephemeral art form such as performance be conserved?
This paper will be aiming at the performative arts field, more specifically to performance art, and will demonstrate the challenges that this brings to the art museum. Conservation and collection methods are the main focus, although other points will be referred.
The impact of new digital technologies is affecting museums and galleries all over the world in m... more The impact of new digital technologies is affecting museums and galleries all over the world in multiple ways. This digital boom is encouraging the creation of new art forms, which are challenging the traditional art museum internally. New media art is one of those movements and thus is the focus of this study. Having variable characteristics and complex mediums, the art museum has been struggling to understand and make a part of its collections new media art.
Therefore, this dissertation will be aiming at the challenges that new media art has been bringing to the art museum concerning presentation, collection and preservation by looking at the changes that two influential art institutions experienced to finally accept this complex art form into their collections and commissions.
The research method for this piece of work combines a literature review with two case studies. The case studies will be analysed in detail and then discussed regarding the questions posed at the beginning of this study.
This research concludes that one can acknowledge the art museum must change its frameworks and structures to properly present, collect and preserve new media art and that efforts ought to be made in this regard. Due to the very special characteristics of new media art, art museums in general are still struggling with this type of art, although there are some institutions that are already totally engaged with it.
It is clear that art institutions are constantly changing, and in the past few years quite radica... more It is clear that art institutions are constantly changing, and in the past few years quite radically. Museums are now becoming places of direct engagement with artworks and artists and not just for contemplation. Some institutions have shifted their frameworks to be able to accommodate video, large-scale installations, new media art and performance art.
Early in the 20th century, artists started to get involved in performances to defy the object centred art of the time. Since then, performance art has been present in the art world as a valid medium of expression.
However, many museums and galleries were overlooking the significance of this type of art mainly because of the difficulty of integrating it in the traditional museum structure. One of the issues of performance is the absence of a solid material/de-objectification and its transitory and ephemeral characteristics. Nevertheless, performance art is reaching a much more prominent position within the contemporary art museum in the last few years.
Therefore, we must question what changes ought to be done to engage performance art within the foundations of the art museum. Being the art institution the ideal place to conserve, collect and present art, how can an ephemeral art form such as performance be conserved?
This paper will be aiming at the performative arts field, more specifically to performance art, and will demonstrate the challenges that this brings to the art museum. Conservation and collection methods are the main focus, although other points will be referred.