Book: New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art edited by Christiane Paul 2008
This book analyses the reconfiguration of the institution. Participation in or with the artworks today counteracts the idea of the museum as shrine to sacred objects. New media has broken free, evaded definition and escaped categorisation. It is constantly evolving and reinventing itself, the enemy of history, new media has developed out of confinement. In the 1960s the then editor of Artforum asked the question, “Are computers, consumer electronics and communication theory transforming art production or simple obscuring it?”
If the museum functions, among other things, as an archive and ‘cultural memory’, how is this memory influenced by the acceleration of real time processing? What might the archive of the future be?
These questions posed in this book were also some of the questions offered to us as a group when asked to present our opinions on collections and our hypotheses for the future. The discussions took place within the Raeburn Rooms of Edinburgh University between three groups of student from the fine art course, art, space and nature course and curatorial course. The discussions were instigated and mediated by Clementine Deliss – founder of the Future Academy ongoing project.
Each week my group dutifully met up to discuss the possibilities for collecting into the future and each week we found ourselves talking round and round this impossibly large subject full of abstract concepts. Each week we recorded our long, rambling, convoluted and more often than not, non-sensicle conversations on the topic. Finally we decided that the only way to present these ideas, without them becoming merely another collectable, was through a slightly edited script written from our discussion recordings. The script was given to a group of actors one hour before the presentation who made a far better job of reading it than we did constructing it. I shall follow this entry with some extracts...
http://www.metasenta.com.au/projects/projects-completed/53-clementine-deliss.html
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