Curating New Media Art Online and Offline Challenges

Curating New Media Art Online and Offline Challenges (EN)

Melachroinou, Konstantina (EL)

Veleni, Themis (EL)

masterThesis

2023-01-30

2023-04-11

2023-04-11T10:31:24Z

This dissertation was written as part of the MSc in Art Law & Arts Management at the International Hellenic University. The institutional acceptability of interactive digital and new media art is, at best, sporadic and sometimes problematic, despite the continued attention of artists the last two decades. According to a literature review and survey of artist and curator perspectives, the theoretical nature and installation-level needs of interactive new media art are little understood. In addition, due to the rapid growth of the technologies that make this art form achievable, literature swiftly becomes obsolete. On the other side, institutional spaces seem to have an ellipses of technological tools in order to include different digital interactive artworks in their permanent collection. At the same time many digital artworks are exhibited in temporary exhibitions, creating new curatorial methods. Therefore, it was necessary for my research to use online sources, blogs and interviews in order to reflect the current situation of interactive digital and new media art, in Europe, the United States and Canada. The research questions on how curatorial, maintenance and managerial tools can be used in order for a cultural professional to create a more accessible and meaningful exhibition in today's society and what are the challenges of such a process. For my experience as an active cultural professional in contemporary art, I consider the case study of the exhibition Plasmata: Bodies, Dreams and Data (2022) which was organized and supported by Stegi, Onassis Foundation in Athens. Plasmata is an interesting example that contains all the above questions and concerns in multiple levels. Of course in order to understand the curatorial norms of new media art today I had to search for previous practices, since the 60s and find its historical roots. This research has the potential to improve our understanding of the relationship between new media art and interaction and online - offline presence, within the framework of art history and contemporary curation, institutional and networked (non-institutional) administration. (EN)

Curating (EL)

Digital art (EL)

New media art (EL)

Αγγλική γλώσσα

School of Economics, Business Administration and Legal Studies, MA in Art Law and Arts Management

IHU (EN)

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Διεθνές Πανεπιστήμιο της Ελλάδος

Ιδρυματικό Αποθετήριο Διεθνούς Πανεπιστημίου Ελλάδος (ΔΙΠΑΕ)

University Center of International Programmes of Studies (UCIPS)

Master Theses