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What does it mean to exhibit something?

What does it mean to exhibit something?. Video installation in the process of being set up for “Windows into Art,” in downtown Vancouver, WA, May 2010; photo by Dene Grigar. Museum is derived from the Greek word mouseion , “temple of the muses”.

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What does it mean to exhibit something?

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  1. What does it mean to exhibit something? Video installation in the process of being set up for “Windows into Art,” in downtown Vancouver, WA, May 2010; photo by Dene Grigar

  2. Museum is derived from the Greek word mouseion, “temple of the muses” • “Plays an instrumental role in modelling the contours of artistic practices” • “Developed status as the most democratic of cultural institutions” in 19th C due to “the emergence of the mass audience” From Vince Dziekan’s Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition A sarcophagus depicting the nine Muses; Louvre, 2nd C AD The Mononagalia Arts Center in Morgantown, WV where Electrifying Literature exhibit was held, June 2012; photo by Kerri Lingo

  3. Artists Natalya Fedorova (left) and Jason Nelson (right) looking at a work of media art on a laptop at the “Electrifying Literature” exhibit, Morgantown, WV, June 2012; photo by Kerri Lingo The role of Museums Preserve Study Communicate

  4. “At the center of the idea of a museum lie not things, but people” and “it is through the ‘medium’ of the exhibition that the idea of the museum as a system composed from the interaction of ideas and objects is experienced”(my emphasis, Dziekan 31). Curator Dene Grigar (right) talking with artists Sue Thomas & Kate Pullinger at “Visionary Landscapes,” at North Bank Artists Gallery, Vancouver, WA, June 2008. Artists and audience mingle before the artists talks at “Visionary Landscapes,” Vancouver, WA, June 2008.

  5. Epistemic Matrix An exhibition provides a situation whereby art transcends its individual presence as a cultural or artistic artifact and joins with other works to form a whole, a “narrative” and “discourse” that results in a “more complex web of meanings” (Dziekan 31). Dene Grigar and other audience members interacting with Simon Biggs’ interactive digital projection, reRead, at DAC 2010 in Irvine, CA, December 2010

  6. Curatorial Design “Makes the connection between artworks and space emphatic, supplanting the self-contained artwork through techniques of assemblage, arragngeent and spatial composition.” It takes advantage of the “revelatory power of display” (Dziekan 33). Roderick Coover, Scott Rettburg, and Nick Montfort’s Three Rails Live at Electrifying Literature, June 2012

  7. Curator’s aesthetic Space Material Object Audience’s aesthetic Curatorial Design plans for anticipated relations among people, art, Materials of display, and space

  8. In-Class Activity Directions: Working with the other students in your pod, launch the Aurasma app. Scan the posters in the room with the iPad camera. Explain the Dziekan’s idea of museums and the “epistemic matrix” in context of this art. Be prepared to talk about your ideas.

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