what might the future hold instore for us?
So, in response to the comment on my last blog post ( i was just going to simply add a comment after his, but i decided that i probaby had more to say to explain, and hey, this is MY blog.. i get to write the big entries. ;)...
Yes, that is one of the beauties of web art, that is it is accessable by the masses, which is showcased in Andy Deck's sites where community involvement is not only encouraged it is used to create the peices. But the museum dillema arises not so much for the sake of the art itself and how it can be presented, but how the art will be presented in the future... basically the problem is: what is a museum going to do with this type of art?
or will museums (the big building full of stuff) become places of "old" art as the new style of web galleries and networks grows?
The artport at Whitney is an impressive blend of the two, a website run by the museum to be a portal to art on the web. the only problem with this is what happens when the artist's domain host goes down, or they stop paying for the storage space.. then the links are broken and there is no art. i guess the museum could purchase or acquire these peices and store them on servers of their own, but then they would need to pay to upkeep the servers...
(which is not that differenet than paying to maintain and restore masterpeices which is what museums have been doing for years and years... but they do not resore everything.. so, then they have to decide what is worth restoring and what is not.. and the same is true for web art basically...)
they could keep a CD catalog or maybe store sites in flash drives, so someone could come to the museum and load up a certain piece. so, the museum could become a digital library of websites long since taken offline?
Yes, that is one of the beauties of web art, that is it is accessable by the masses, which is showcased in Andy Deck's sites where community involvement is not only encouraged it is used to create the peices. But the museum dillema arises not so much for the sake of the art itself and how it can be presented, but how the art will be presented in the future... basically the problem is: what is a museum going to do with this type of art?
or will museums (the big building full of stuff) become places of "old" art as the new style of web galleries and networks grows?
The artport at Whitney is an impressive blend of the two, a website run by the museum to be a portal to art on the web. the only problem with this is what happens when the artist's domain host goes down, or they stop paying for the storage space.. then the links are broken and there is no art. i guess the museum could purchase or acquire these peices and store them on servers of their own, but then they would need to pay to upkeep the servers...
(which is not that differenet than paying to maintain and restore masterpeices which is what museums have been doing for years and years... but they do not resore everything.. so, then they have to decide what is worth restoring and what is not.. and the same is true for web art basically...)
they could keep a CD catalog or maybe store sites in flash drives, so someone could come to the museum and load up a certain piece. so, the museum could become a digital library of websites long since taken offline?
posted by eygji at 3:23 PM
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