Digitizing Art or How to Broaden the Viewer's Experience

Alexandra Orlova
2021 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London Conference  
As all of us, know 2020 gave a new meaning to the phrase "Go fully digital". For many institutions, this new era of online entertainment became a true challenge. If earlier digital art was an experimental practice, which not everyone wanted to understand, in today's situation it became an impossible opinion due to the fact that all of us did our best to master the digital sphere while working from home. The paper seeks to demonstrate how digital documentation and digital exhibitions became an
more » ... portant part of contemporary exhibition life. Through different examples of video, media, and other types of "digitized" art the author will show digital exhibits may create a place where all viewers are able to come from any location in the world. The main focus of the paper is a case study of three digital exhibitionstwo made at the Russian State Art Library as a part of the "RSAL Studio" program, one made by students of the first Russian Digital Art MA program "-Da. Digital Art". Each exhibit has a different approach to the concept of demonstration of art and methods of its creation. The paper will be followed by an image demonstration, which the author will prepare in case of the proposal approval.
doi:10.14236/ewic/eva2021.6 dblp:conf/eva/Orlova21 fatcat:hbn4poielbeo7eiyq2cxbbtbiy