ArtViews | Digital Space/Physical Space: Mapping the 21st–Century Museum

ENTERTAINMENT-SPAIN-ART-MUSEUM-PRADO-INTERNETHistorically, art museums have been physical spaces—typically, buildings—devoted to preserving artworks and making them visually available to people who walk through their doors. In the past few decades, technology has increasingly transformed those spaces, affecting everything from how we care for and interpret objects to how we conceptualize exhibitions. The most profound shifts, perhaps, relate to audiences: unbounded by physical geography, digital technologies make it possible for museums to share experiences and information with people around the world. Yet what is being shared? Websites, apps and even collections databases are spaces with physical, aesthetic and cultural logics of their own. For users, they may function as surrogates for or complements to physical visits to a museum; in either case they provide new ways to present content. This panel will examine the unique possibilities of digital engagement, reflecting on existing and potential relationships between digital and physical space.

Established in 2012, ArtViews is an annual series of lively discussions on critical issues in the museum world.

PANELISTS 

Piotr Adamczyk: Program Manager, Google Cultural Institute
Lauren Cornell: Curator, 2015 Triennial, Museum as Hub and Digital Projects, New Museum
Jennifer Foley: Director of Interpretation, Cleveland Museum of Art
Sree Sreenivasan: Chief Digital Officer, Metropolitan Museum of Art

MODERATOR

Steven Mann: Associate Director for Exhibitions and Programs, American Federation of Arts











When: Tue., Jun. 9, 2015 at 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: New Museum
235 Bowery
212-219-1222
Price: $20
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ENTERTAINMENT-SPAIN-ART-MUSEUM-PRADO-INTERNETHistorically, art museums have been physical spaces—typically, buildings—devoted to preserving artworks and making them visually available to people who walk through their doors. In the past few decades, technology has increasingly transformed those spaces, affecting everything from how we care for and interpret objects to how we conceptualize exhibitions. The most profound shifts, perhaps, relate to audiences: unbounded by physical geography, digital technologies make it possible for museums to share experiences and information with people around the world. Yet what is being shared? Websites, apps and even collections databases are spaces with physical, aesthetic and cultural logics of their own. For users, they may function as surrogates for or complements to physical visits to a museum; in either case they provide new ways to present content. This panel will examine the unique possibilities of digital engagement, reflecting on existing and potential relationships between digital and physical space.

Established in 2012, ArtViews is an annual series of lively discussions on critical issues in the museum world.

PANELISTS 

Piotr Adamczyk: Program Manager, Google Cultural Institute
Lauren Cornell: Curator, 2015 Triennial, Museum as Hub and Digital Projects, New Museum
Jennifer Foley: Director of Interpretation, Cleveland Museum of Art
Sree Sreenivasan: Chief Digital Officer, Metropolitan Museum of Art

MODERATOR

Steven Mann: Associate Director for Exhibitions and Programs, American Federation of Arts

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