Description

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A wide range of contemporary art forms, including installations, born-digital art, video, performance art, and interactive media, will be explored in this class with an eye toward understanding their potential for loss due to technological obsolescence as well as how their meaning changes as they are brought from gallery or temporary exhibition into the museum. Since contemporary artists are increasingly shifting their artistic mediums towards the digital sphere, this course will introduce students to the work of a new generation of curator and conservators that have pioneered new theoretical and practical concepts toward artwork variability, documentation as preservation (artwork as archive), and artistic intent.