From the Artist’s Perspective: On the Longevity of VR/AR Artworks
Date Issued
June 1, 2021
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DOI
10.34619/hwfg-s9yy
Abstract
The technological leaps of our time have brought virtuality to
the forefront, with technologies such as Virtual and Augmented
Reality (VR/AR) becoming easily accessible creative tools for
artists. However, technology itself has made VR/AR artworks
a challenging category of objects for collecting institutions.
Since 2019, we have been researching the current practices of
acquiring, exhibiting and preserving VR/AR artworks in collecting
institutions via the MuseumArtTech project. Eight professionals
working in institutions that engage with VR/AR artworks and five
artists who use VR/AR technologies as a main art medium were
interviewed, with the aim being to understand the processes,
challenges and experiences of museum professionals and
identify the artists’ standpoint in relation to the institutional
management of their artworks. This paper addresses the artists’
perspective, by examining how their creative process informs,
and potentially increases, the longevity of their VR/AR artworks,
as well as how this process may reveal the nature of the
reciprocal artist-institution relationship.
the forefront, with technologies such as Virtual and Augmented
Reality (VR/AR) becoming easily accessible creative tools for
artists. However, technology itself has made VR/AR artworks
a challenging category of objects for collecting institutions.
Since 2019, we have been researching the current practices of
acquiring, exhibiting and preserving VR/AR artworks in collecting
institutions via the MuseumArtTech project. Eight professionals
working in institutions that engage with VR/AR artworks and five
artists who use VR/AR technologies as a main art medium were
interviewed, with the aim being to understand the processes,
challenges and experiences of museum professionals and
identify the artists’ standpoint in relation to the institutional
management of their artworks. This paper addresses the artists’
perspective, by examining how their creative process informs,
and potentially increases, the longevity of their VR/AR artworks,
as well as how this process may reveal the nature of the
reciprocal artist-institution relationship.
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