1st Webinar on Art, Museums and Digital Cultures
A collaboration between maat and IHA/NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, 22 October 2020
A collaboration between maat and IHA/NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, 22 October 2020
The digital transition process at cultural institutions has quickened in recent months. It is, thus, important to reflect on what has been made available and the difference between the digitisation of artworks or contents in physical formats and the development of art and
curatorial projects specifically designed for digital and network media.
At a time when access to physical spaces has been placed on hold, the transfer of some museum activities to digital formats has allowed us to maintain communication with regular visitors, as well as to capture new audiences. However, and paradoxically, this process has accentuated the geographical, social and cultural discrepancies in the access to information technologies. According to a UNESCO report published in May 2020, in the first few months of the pandemic, huge disparities were seen internationally in institutions’ capacity to respond.
In this context, the fact that most museums are online is not enough. It is necessary to discuss what content, activities, institutions and audiences coexist in these new online cultural circuits and what forms of segregation are emerging or worsening. These issues are the starting point for the first webinar on Art, Museums and Digital Cultures, promoted by maat and the Institute of Art History, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, which anticipates the international conference to be held in Abril 2021.
More information and programme available at:
maat.pt/en/event/1st-webinar-art-museum-and-digital-cultures
Organisation
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon.
Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
curatorial projects specifically designed for digital and network media.
At a time when access to physical spaces has been placed on hold, the transfer of some museum activities to digital formats has allowed us to maintain communication with regular visitors, as well as to capture new audiences. However, and paradoxically, this process has accentuated the geographical, social and cultural discrepancies in the access to information technologies. According to a UNESCO report published in May 2020, in the first few months of the pandemic, huge disparities were seen internationally in institutions’ capacity to respond.
In this context, the fact that most museums are online is not enough. It is necessary to discuss what content, activities, institutions and audiences coexist in these new online cultural circuits and what forms of segregation are emerging or worsening. These issues are the starting point for the first webinar on Art, Museums and Digital Cultures, promoted by maat and the Institute of Art History, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, which anticipates the international conference to be held in Abril 2021.
More information and programme available at:
maat.pt/en/event/1st-webinar-art-museum-and-digital-cultures
Organisation
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon.
Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
Image: Visions at the End of the World, Carlos Casas with Filipe Felizardo, 2020. Courtesy of EDP Foundation.
Website design: Patrícia de Sousa Melo (IHA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
