Challenges for a Ubiquitous Museum: Presenting and Preserving New Media

Christiane Paul is nieuwe mediacurator in het 'Whitney Museum of American Art'. De Whitney Artport is een net art-archief dat vragen zal oproepen voor de toekomst. In de back-end van het systeem worden alle versies van Flash, CGI en PHP scripts gedocumenteerd.

The characteristics of the digital medium pose numerous challenges to the traditional art world, ranging from presentation to collection and preservation. For the longest time, museums, galleries and the art world and art market in general have been mostly "objectoriented" and have configured their framework and infrastructure to accommodate the presentation and preservation of the static art object. The characteristics of so-called new media art have introduced a shift from the object to process: as an inherently time-based, dynamic, interactive, collaborative, customizable and variable art form, digital art resists "objectification" and has changed traditional notions of the "art object." (...)

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