Digital Art Museum
Digital Art Museum (DAM) is a project dedicated to the influence of the computer and the digital on art and society.
The focus is on the content-related discussion of graphics, animation , net art , software art , hacktivism and interactive art and the like in the context of digital art or computers.
Computer art is presented in the online museum DAM and the two galleries "[DAM] Berlin" and "[DAM] Cologne". In addition, digital art is presented in public space in cooperation with the Sony Center . From 2004 to 2005, animations and software art were presented daily on the 20 square meter LED screen of the Sony Center and in this way reached a wide audience. The project was restarted in 2011. The program changes every 3–4 months.
Online museum
The Digital Art Museum was founded in 1998 as an online museum. The declared aim is to develop a forum for the history and practice of digital art and at the same time to improve market opportunities for artists. Museum offers a comparative documentation of the creative phases of the artists.
The museum was designed and developed by Wolf Lieser. Mike King as a lecturer at Guildhall University , London enabled initial funding from the AHRB Art and Humanities Research Board. The Digital Art Museum logo (the [DAM] symbol) and the design of this page are licensed from Kerry J. Andrews; Alan Hicks was responsible for the technical implementation.
Lieser and the advisory staff are responsible for selecting the artists on the website. Suggestions can be made by any of the members. The committee consists of 7 experts from the field of digital media:
- Sue Gollifer (computer artist, lecturer in fine arts and printmaking at Brighton University , UK, curator of several international exhibitions of digital art)
- Roger Malina (editor of Leonardo on-line )
- Bonnie Mitchell ( Bowling Green University , USA and ACM SIGGRAPH )
- Frieder Nake (computer artist , author)
- Cynthia Beth Rubin (Rhode Island School of Art, USA, and board member of the International Symposium of Electronic Art )
- Anne Morgan Spalter (research fellow at Brown University , Providence, USA, and author in the field of digital art)
- Rejane Spitz (computer artist, professor of the Department of Art & Design at the Pontifica Universidade Católica , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and curator of several exhibitions of digital art in South America)
Galleries
Wolf Lieser founded a gallery for contemporary art in Wiesbaden in 1994 and, since 1999, has also been involved in the Colville Place Gallery in London, which was opened by Keith Watson in 1997, the first gallery for digital art. In 2002 both galleries were closed. In spring 2003 Lieser opened the gallery [DAM] Berlin, followed in 2010 by [DAM] Cologne. Both contemporary young computer artists and pioneers of digital art are represented in the premises.
The price
The "dam digital art award" [ddaa], formerly the d.velop digital art award , was initiated in 2005 with the aim of gaining broader acceptance of digital media in contemporary art. The prize honors corresponding artists for their life's work or a specific group of works. The prize is endowed with 20,000 euros and is awarded every two years. The following year, the winner will be presented in an exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen, which will be supplemented by a catalog.
The d.velop AG promoted the [ddaa] since 2005 to 2011. The second sponsor, the Haupt Pharma AG supported the price from 2008 to 2011. Permanent partners of the price is the Kunsthalle Bremen . The sponsor is the communication agency Lohnzich from Münster.
Award winners
- 2005: Vera Molnár
- 2006: Manfred Mohr
- 2008: Norman White
- 2010: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Publications
In 2009 the book Digital Art by Wolf Lieser, an introductory work on digital art , was published, in 2010 an extended version with an accompanying DVD.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Online museum
- ↑ Galerie [DAM] Berlin archive link ( memento of the original from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sony Center: Events ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ digitalartmuseum: Info
- ↑ partner. Retrieved July 12, 2012 .
- ↑ sponsors. Retrieved July 12, 2012 .
- ↑ Prize winners 2005-10.
