Holy Fire: Art of the Digital Age
Interesting exhibition that looks at collectable new media art (i.e that people can/will pay money for and own).
Including boredomresearch's ornamental bug garden.
From the exhibition blurb:
Holy Fire is an attempt to explore how new media art, bypassing all the stereotypes connected with its presumed immateriality and difficulties of maintenance, was able to enter the art market.
Holy Fire is probably the first exhibition to show only collectible new media artworks already on the art market, in the form of traditional media (prints, videos, sculptures) or customized new media objects. Holy Fire presents contemporary artworks made with contemporary technologies and designed to be collectible.
Holy Fire, the title of the exhibition is a reference to a well-known book by Bruce Sterling, a book which, among other issues, envision the art of the (at that time, future) digitali age. In the same time, the issue makes reference to the passion that helps a growing number of people (artists, curators, gallery owners and collectors) to take care of an art that is temporary and variable by definition
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Interesting (and lengthy) discussion about this on the Rhizome website
Jennie
folly Programme Coordinator