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The Future of Museums. How will they evolve due to digital changes and in relation to time-based media

Author(s): Besser, Howard

Abstract

In upcoming years, museums will evolve due to societal digital changes and the influence from the more adventurous media art within their col-lections. This evolution will be prompted by changes in museum opera-tions and in the museum’s relation with the public that comes from mere-ly displaying this complex media art within gallery settings. And it will al-so be prompted by museums needing to find ways to preserve and re-install these works. This piece revisits predictions of relevant museum changes made by this author in three installments over the past 30 years, paying particular attention to those predictions related to topics raised at the Re:Trace conference. Given the technological, cultural and organiza-tional changes in the intervening years, it then seeks to re-assess those predictions with many years of hindsight.

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Besser, Howard: The Future of Museums. How will they evolve due to digital changes and in relation to time-based media. In: Grau, Oliver;Hoth, Janina;Wandl-Vogt, Eveline: Digital Art through the Looking Glass. New strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities. Krems a.d. Donau: Edition Donau-Universität 2019, S. 247-260. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/13187.
@INCOLLECTION{Besser2019,
 author = {Besser, Howard},
 title = {The Future of Museums. How will they evolve due to digital changes and in relation to time-based media},
 year = 2019,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/13187},
 editor = {Grau, Oliver and Hoth, Janina and Wandl-Vogt, Eveline},
 address = {Krems a.d. Donau},
 booktitle = {Digital Art through the Looking Glass. New strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities},
 pages = {247--260},
 publisher = {Edition Donau-Universität},
}
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