VR still, 1923: Past Futures, Reframe Productions, 2022, courtesy of VIVE Arts and Triennale Milano
Talk
The Museum between Analogue and Digital: Protection, Enhancement and Conservation
1923: Past Futures
October 26 2022, 6.30pm
Starting from the virtual reality project 1923: Past Futures, curated by Triennale Milano and realized with the support of VIVE Arts and the production and creative direction of Reframe Productions, the talk tackles themes such as the protection, enhancement and conservation of artworks and archival materials in museum institutions during the delicate switch from the analogue to the digital and the coexistence of these two dimensions.
Presented by: Fabrizia Bandi, PhD, post-doc researcher ERC AN-ICON (Università degli Studi di Milano); Matteo Lonardi, creative director at Reframe Productions; Francesco Lonardi, CEO at Reframe Productions; Elisabetta Modena, PhD, post-doc researcher ERC AN-ICON (Università degli Studi di Milano); Leigh Tanner, Head of Global Partnership, VIVE Arts & Museum 2050 Founder.
Damiano Gullì, Curator for Contemporary Art and Public Program at Triennale Milano, moderates the talk.
Trough an analysis of the level of digitalization of their material heritage, the discussion will develop from the guidelines that museums are testing for a democratization of content that only digitalization can make possible. Accessibility to archival material, for example, allows us to rethink both the concept of the museum as a container and its structural boundaries. The contents of a museum may not be accessible for various reasons, ranging from logistical complications to conservation ones. Here the opportunities that new tools such as virtual reality can provide to visitors come in handy, allowing an unprecedented, but sometimes necessary, use of the contents.
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