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Garcia Cepeda, Rene Alberto "Curation and display of interactive new media art: making a manual." Phd
, University of Sunderland, 2020
Keywords/Fields of Study : New media art, curation, exhibition design, art, technology, digital, manual
Abstract: While interactive new media art continues to be an interest to artists, its integration within institutional contexts remains inconsistent at best. A literature and artist and curator perspective survey showed that the field has a lack of understanding of both the theoretical nature of interactive new media art and its specific needs at the installation level. Furthermore, the speed at which the technologies supporting this art form change means that literature becomes outdated within a short window of time. From these insights, it became clear that a more responsive and easier to maintain resource was necessary. This dissertation describes the research and methodological approaches implemented in the creation of the manual. The research questions aimed to determine what was needed from the manual from a curator's and a designer's perspective; how could it offer recommendations that not only met the needs of curators, artists, and the public, but also ensure that such efforts were accessible and useable as well. As part of this process, interviews and case studies of FACT in the United Kingdom and Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico were used to collect a variety of perspectives across curatorial cultures and budgets. The results of this research became an online manual covering the curatorial, display, and memory making aspects of exhibition design. The manual is a creative commons online resource in order to promote its dissemination through institutions. The manual accepts input from readers to continue its improvement past publication. The art world can benefit from this research in a variety of ways, the most obvious being from directly using the manual as intended, but it can also contribute to the better understanding of interaction, time, reproducibility, and virtual site-specificity in the broader context of art history particularly related to new media art.
Department: Art and design
, University of Sunderland
Advisor(s): Beryl Graham, Alexandra Moschovi
