Hi All,
I am doing some research on the way artwork documentation is perceived online; the way that artworks - 2d to XD - transform from their material and objective state in the exhibiting space to a digitalised documentation on a gallery or museum website. I am myself an artist and find that many more people (by the thousands) see my work - or documentation of it - on my website then they do in a gallery environment. I am looking to analyse what the difference is between these two viewing scenarios in art institutions, beyond issues like distortions of scale, material presence, etc..
With recent studies pointing out that art institutions' use of Web 2.0 and all its wonders are beneficial in reaching larger Western audiences internationally, I am looking to find and discuss information on what the experience of looking at these documentations are through a computer monitor as opposed to on site.
Undoubtably, internet conventions and habits of use are developing faster then art institutions (and their digital budgets!) can track. Audiences website hits are ever rising so with more people seeing artworks in the thumbnail format they are presented in (on museum websites for example), how is the monitor, in between the artwork and the audience distorting conceptions of what the artwork is in its web context? I am also interested in how the rise in audiences viewing artworks on institution websites is affected with the surrounding context of other uses for the internet. Where the art museum has one fundamental agenda - to give audiences an art/cultural experience, the internet has an unlimited amount of agendas..
I haven't found many specific studies on this topic. Does anybody know of others looking into the area or have any opinions?
Best
Oly
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