From Object to Platform
Art, digital technology and time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4355956 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Mcquire (0000-0001-7698-987X, The University of Melbourne), Natalia Radywyl (School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-27 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x09354934 |
| OpenAlex | W2099616507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
In this article we argue that the upsurge of digital technology in contemporary art practice is requiring artists, art institutions and audiences to engage with time in new ways. Beginning with the way institutions such as New York's Museum of Modern Art broke with the museological paradigm of only displaying 'dead' art, we then examine how the emergence of video art in the 1960s created new practices of time-based spectatorship and altered exhibition protocols. From this vantage, we identify and address a key tendency in the present, namely the move away from conceiving the artwork as a finished object, in favour of the production of open platforms requiring the participation of the public in order to generate their content. We argue that this new setting for art is complex and ambivalent, enabling both new forms of collaboration and social engagement, but also pushing art towards the 'experience economy' of commodified leisure
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Art history · Business · Commodification · Contemporary art · Digital art · Epistemology · Exhibition · Installation art · Media studies · Object (grammar · Order (exchange · Sociology · Studio art · Temporality · The arts · Visual arts · Visual arts education · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Museology · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2020 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |