Reading Presenting and Preserving New Media, I thought back to the museum experiences I’ve had before about the objectification of art and how they become art objects once displayed. Christine Paul said that video and performance art are some of the few exceptions that escape that, but I feel that…

The relationship between the curator and artist/exhibition maker and artist is one that has not been as frequently discussed as the relationship between the artist and viewer or curator/exhibiton maker and viewer. It reminds me of this artist Sol LeWitt, who has a greater relationship with the museum/curators than most…

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oYaeqstsrbbTmpzDGoVwPexhUVJq8psE?usp=sharing For the final version of my object story I decided to remove the teapot from a pedestal and place in on a table, along a few other tea objects (a matcha whisk and a cup of pearl milk tea). I did this because I wanted the experience to feel…

When Lev Manovich redefines “augmented space” in The Poetics of Augmented Space, augmented space becomes more commonplace and less “high tech”. I feel that in class and outside of class, AR is seen as an incredible technological advancement and as something very cool to be put on a pedestal, but…

When I first saw the term “ignorant museum”, I thought it was a negative term for museums that fail to acknowledge the true background of some pieces, such as the European institutions ignoring the pillaging and plundering that was done to obtain some artifacts. However, the idea of eliminating elitism…

In From Malraux’s Imaginary Museum to the Virtual Museum by Antonia Battro, I really liked Malraux’s statements and ideas on an object or work becoming totally different once in a museum setting. Once it is displayed, it is automatically put on a pedestal (figuratively and sometimes literally) and thought of…