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CONGRATULATIONS ON AN OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME! You’ve been selected from millions of intellectuals to provide your expertise on our exhibit; an EXHIBIT of knowledge, research, and collections. But it is YOU who will decide the final “game plan” for the world and the general public.
Sincerely Your Superior, Fate
Curators have the DEVINE RIGHT to preside over the ARTWORLD as do Monarchs over the general public. Wait! Wait! Listen here! What has been bestowed upon curators to contemplate such Monumental Decisions? What elevates them above you or me, the Average Joe? Is it an 8 by 11 piece of paper (called a diploma) that bestows the right to do so? Is it their vast educational background and mythical insight into what I’d personally prefer? No, I’m more than capable of making such a decision! The Mission: to reveal New Media Art.
New Media Art – as it is today; is “art that responds to the images that reach us through ‘the media’…These images are recast, dismantled, recombined, simplified and exceeded, and the result is media art” (V2_). New Media Art provides an opportunity to reflect and analyze these images before our very eyes, value them aesthetically, and not become victims of their hypnotic beauty. But holistically we feel the urge to dig deeper. An innate desire to interact on multiple levels: physically, mentally, and spiritually - achieved through interactive art.
“It is art that no longer wishes to form a closed whole at which the viewer can gaze as a consumer or collector; it is open… to form one with the viewer who therefore becomes… a participant in the work, even its co-creator” (V2_). One can’t always predict the interpretation with network art. It’s always changing. It’s difficult to define what new media art is or can be. However, we, the people, deserve the right to be “curators” ourselves. We should decide how it should be displayed and what should be revealed to us. Curators, in general are preoccupied with adhering to the art institution (SIGGRAPH, New Media Institute, ISEA) policies that often overshadow the real message the piece is trying to convey. No more boring white walls! Art should be accessed and made available freely through the Internet. Let us experience art in the manner it was designed.
Display: New Media Art should be omnipresent. Museums should “engage with our increasingly technologized society, in particular the ubiquity of new media and new technologies such as the Internet” (V2_). This online database, digital agency, online exhibit provides easy access to every artwork and will allow individuals to make relationships/interactions between different media and technology. On the Internet, “OUR RESOURCES ARE LIMITLESS AND THE POSSIBILITIES ENDLESS” (From Here On). The Internet permeates our “everyday” lives and provides hyper accessibility of images and content. The digital appropriationism surge provides a map “telling us one vital thing, we are sitting on veins of images” (From Here On). V2_, a digital exhibit in itself, allows viewers to witness the ongoing changes in this new media art and provides opportunities to reflect, comment and contribute ideas to the futuristic progress that new media technologies are undergoing.
Organization/Archived: Tags and Descriptive Metadata are our Salvation: deliverance from the power of curators, from their sin of limiting content/context. A REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN!!! Like card catalogs of online libraries, YOUR QUEST ISN’T FINITE. Type an artist name, an art technique, medium, any keyword, your Holy Grail will be revealed. Automatically improving the experience and bringing easy access to reality.
Accessibility: Any message not transferred, is not a message at all. EXTRA! EXTRA! Experience all about it!
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