Publisher: Les Presse Du Reel
Date published: 2018The collection of digital artwork at the Espace Multimedia Gantner (EMG), the contemporary and multimedia art branch of the regional multimedia library, was born of the desire to share digital art with as many people as possible and in places not necessarily devoted to art. In order to begin this collection, the art historian Bertrand Gauguet was given a commission in 2004. He selected 35 works from 35 different international artists, offering a varied panorama of this new contemporary creation.
Ten years later, the need to take stock of the collection, to present its 23 new acquisitions, has become evident in order to account for the evolution of the corpus of works, but also to examine the near absence of digital art in contemporary art collections, to examine the act of collecting in the era of the digital and of programmed obsolescence…