THE FUTURE OF ART GALLERIES

Timeline of Art Museums

• -  Scolars have stated the earliest art museums were established in the

• -  early modern Europe wereWunderkammern which held cultural and artistic objects. Its

  purpose was to give people enhanced knowledge through the placement of things in it.

• -  1750, British Museum emerged. Revolved around archaeology and specimans.

• -  The rise in individual and categorised museums emerged. Art museums arose such as the Capitoline in Rome, 1734

• -  Louvre

• -  Idea of the white cube 1930’s came into play at the MOMA NY

• -  ‘Made to order’ museum, Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey 1907

• -  Art Museums and art markets were all in person affairs.

• -  2012, art museums were still sceptical about putting art museum online

  with the issue of authenticity.

• -  In 2017, there was an overall 9% rate in the art market with sales being online.

• -  Many galleries now undergo viewings not only in real life; but on their websites for special showings. But further, within auction houses.

• -  Within COVID19 art museums like Garage Museum, Moscow created a digital initiative and exhibition. Used online platforms; on their website, Instagram, livestreams and tiktok.

• -  Art Galleries have recently been exhibiting works with heavy science influence. An example is that of Te Papa, NZ and the Science Gallery in Ireland.

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Insights

1. -  All art museums would be not only be visited in real life, but online culture.

2. -  A.I bots in the gallery walking around live showing you around. You are an A.I bot in another country. Living through them

3. -  Art museums will become more in touch with social media realms. Posting lives, etc. Become more immersed in youth culture.

17th or 18th-century in Europe.

The nearest thing to a museum in

the

the

(Paris, 1793)

the Alte Pinakothek (Munich, 1836)

• -  Art gets sold in online private auctions and on Facebook. But why not Instagram and other platforms

• -  People internationally will gain more respect and awareness for art within different movements and countries

• -  Wii, play station art exhibitions

• -  Teleportation

• -  Art use to be displayed with other objects from museums. Then in their own galleries. Now there could be the shift to art outside of the galleries more and displayed in banal places like on the streets.

• -  Art could be more accessible to all demographics

• -  Art will collide with other scholarly disciplines more

• -  Due to cultural and worldly change, new movements will emerge

Then, I created a list of emails of experts; then I emailed them and gained interviews. 

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Automation

• -  Teleportation

• -  A..I being you within a physical gallery

• -  VR sets to see other work and culture within other countries

• -  Technical sounds becoming more artistic

• -  Museum robots

• -  360 views within FB

• -  Online museum exhibitions will then protect the real works of art

• -  National Australian museum 2013 goes virtual

Three precedence to inspire insight discovery

1. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-museums-finding-new-

   ways-connect-art-lovers-online-quarantine The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art through lockdown in COVID19 had introduced the Art Museums work to social marketing applications such as Instagram lives and tiktok and Garage Digital Platform. Through their accordances the museum are able to display visual works and and still interact with art lovers through the internet. Bringing Museums online in with such force has never really been done before especially onto tiktok. They are creating new realms of where they can promote and be illustrated. ‘Conscious adaptability within trends of internet and reality realms are necessary in 2027.’

   Sweden Internet Museum

2. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-

   art/could-virtual-reality-be-the-future-of-art-exhibitions-1.3905993 ‘VR

   is the new experience of art museums.’

3. Art is transitioning from inside the museum to outside

   https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2019 ‘Due to the times and trends art festivals are on the rise.’https://smartvenice.org/portfolio/culture-and-art-for-a-new- sustainable-future/

10 in regards to climate change and sustainability

• -  Online gallery looking and auctions that are online will fight air pollution when buyers want to purchase million dollar artworks

• -  Could go into online artwork ? not using real mediums but technological ones as the trend of art

• -  Art museums could become interchangeable with rubbish, create rubbish into art.

• -  Stop spray painting? Decrease bad fumes for environment

• -  Ensuring in the future all paint are more sustainable and environmentally

  neutral

• -  Sweden Internet Museum opened 2014 – way of the future

• -  Preserve heritage architecture

• -  Personal VR exhibitions in your own home in the future, then could be keeping adaptive with peoples time and effort. Increasing people being able to see art become knowledgeable about cultures and mediums.

• -  Establish fully sustainable galleries made out of second hand objects like the ready made movement or waste.

• -  Heatherwick style museums, architectural designer. The building can even comply with the idea of art through architecture.

• -  What about Neri Oxman – individuals like Neri Oxman will fill the galleries. Science integrating with art. This is because science is the future and history. Comprises artistic forms that are created.

• -  Paintings by Picasso and Warhol exhibit in Tehran powerplant – reusing and renewing.

• -  Tate modern is on bankside of powerplant3 insights to develop

• -  The 70%of art museums will be online in the future for visual exhibitions and auctions.

• -  Art museums are going to go back to how they were at the beginning. Everything use to be in one museum. In the future there will be science interconnecting wholly with art.

• -  Art museums will go out of fashion and art festivals will come in. ie. Like the art festival in Venice. Innovative and fills the needs and trends of our modern society. Bringing the inside out.

Deciding my insight

insights

Originality /10

Usefulness /10

Believability /10

Total Score /30

1

The 70%of art museums will be online in the future for visual exhibitions and auctions.

5/10 This insight is not extremely original but it is still something to think about as it is not realistic yet. But, original in the idea that art is traditionally suppose to be experienced in real life.

9/10 however fees for art museums for this service might be a lot. According to Director: Elizabeth Caldwell at City Gallery Wellington.

10/10 can definitely see this happening as there is already engagement in this realm. FB, tiktok, instagram and. websites. However not adopted to its full extent.

24/30

2

Art museums are going to go back to how

9/10 rather original, little

10/10 could definitely be useful,

8/10
Very believable –

27/30

they were at the beginning. Everything use to be in one museum. In the future there will be science interconnecting wholly with art.

museums have adopted this approach fully.

creates new concepts and fuses two important worlds together to establish new archives for new futures.

however some may be wary and want art to have its own setting and social structure.

 3

Art museums will go out of fashion and art festivals will come in. ie. Like the art festival in Venice. Innovative and fills the needs and trends of our modern society. Bringing the inside out.

8/10 Original for a whole cultural fashion. But, some festivals have been constructed.

7/10
Useful for people less interested in art and youth for awareness. But you have to consider art connoisseurs ideas, and archives.

6/10 Believable but unsure if it would replace art museums completely. Would also need a lot of transport and funding.

21/30

Second insight is going to be the one I focus on. However – adding ideas from the first insight could also be relevant and beneficial.

Official Insight
“In 2027, 60% of art galleries will merge with National Museums to create a new identity and institution.”

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Things related to final insight – precedents and interviews

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/mar/23/10-of-the-worlds-best- virtual-museum-and-art-gallery-tours

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-museums-finding-new-ways- connect-art-lovers-online-quarantine

Virtual Museum and Gallery tours

- ‘Conscious adaptability within trends of internet and reality realms are necessary in 2027.’

“Collaboration between science and the arts have a long history. Today, visual artists are crunching big data and are contemplating DNA and climate change.” Thus why not connect them and their archives so that they can grow and fuse together in the future.

- ‘Merging the archives of science and art will fuse both disciplines in the future.’

By merging these disciplines and histories there can be a new and innovative future that can flourish.

- Chloe Warren and Jack Scanlanhttp://www.lateralmag.com/articles/issue-3/visualisation-and-inspiration-the- merging-of-science-and-art

Research

Places already merging the disciplines of science art and technology.

The Science Gallery, Dublin

In Trinity College in the year of 2008, they established the Science Gallery which “ignites creativity and discovery where science and art collide.” This gallery is a non-profit and has undergone 43 exhibitions which ranges from works using

https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/mission

Museum of Discovery, Australia

University of South Australia opened their doors as an institution called the ‘Museum of Discovery’ also known as MOD.
Here, they bring together the realms of art,
science and technology to create exhibits and

to illustrate how “

” MOD has installed in the building, a permanent display for the National Oceanic and atmospheric Administration. There is an interactive

“design and violence, to light and love, and from contagion and biomimicry to the

futures of the human species and play.”

culture in the 21st century.

audiences connect with

visualisation board and system known as “Science on a Sphere’ from NOAA which represents important planetary data and its analysis. Instead of undergoing a curation based model; there is a new and transitioned focus on immersive experiences which are inevitably based on research. In Wilson Barnao’s article it said that “

Museums are no longer only spaces that house stagnant cabinets of

curiosity. A growing trend in the sector is integration into the displays of new

methodologies and strategies designed to enhance visitor engagement.” Thus,

galleries and museums need to keep evolving with the times. By creating a space

where disciplines such as design, art, science and technology can shift and evolve

together there could be an increase in cultural relevance. Through giving people

the opportunity to explore ideas and objects in new ways; there needs to be

development in how we observe and create art and objects in museums and

structure institutions.

Exhibit – Feeling Human - https://mod.org.au/exhibits/feeling-human/

https://theconversation.com/museum-or-not-the-changing-face-of-curated- science-tech-art-and-culture-95507
https://mod.org.au

ArtScience Museum, Singapore

They “

Science and art

https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhibitions/future-world.html

Planet or Plastic?

https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhibitions/planet-or-plastic.html https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/about.html

Melbourne Science Gallery “A collision of Art and Science.”

https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com

have held large-scale exhibitions by some of the

world’s best known artists including Leonardo da Vinci,

Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Vincent Van Gogh and M.C.

Escher since opening in February 2011. In addition, we

have presented significant exhibitions that explore

aspects of science including big data, particle physics,

palaeontology, marine biology, cosmology and space

exploration.” Their overarching mission is to ultimately

explore where the culture of art, science and technology

connect.

Examples of Exhibits:

The exhibit ‘Blood’ was shown in 2017. Here, they have a full online visual experience of it which immerses you in the environment of art and science through a space wholly.https://my.matterport.com/show/?brand=0&m=E1s32rssWNA&play=1&title=0&w h=0

Discovered TeamLab ‘Future World’ through my interviews.

Combines art with science through technological mediums and ways of the future.

https://www.teamlab.art/e/artsciencemuseum/

I feel like with climate change and the effects the environment has had / or not had on the world lately has brought people together more to discuss science. This discussion based learning about the enviroment has been done a lot through experimentation; but also questioning. These processes form art that makes the audience not only question the world around but helps change futures. Art and science merging together has led to a lot of exhibits utilising the medium of technology for display and other non-traditional mediums..

Biometrics and innovation in museums -

https://advisor.museumsandheritage.com/features/icer-innovation-center- uses-biometrics-as-a-welcome-to-its-museum-of-technology/

Ars Electronica, for art, technology and society. Exhibits all around the world.

https://venice.sciencegallery.com 

Developing insight

More than 60% of Art Galleries and National/Science Museums will merge entities to create a new identity and institution. Furthermore, have feasible audiences on online social marketing platforms for auctions and sharing. One of the first rooms that was considered as a ‘museum’ was the Wunderkammern: ‘The Cabinet of Curiosities’. Established in the mid sixteenth century in Europe, it was comprised of notable objects of all disciplines; scientific, educational and artistic. By looking back to the idea of how science and art were embraced; it enables you to look into the future of Art Galleries. Due to the rise in interest for the environment and sustainability out of necessity with climate change and the online world becoming a more integral place for engagement - fusing Art Galleries and National/Science Museums will lay the institution of modern day innovation.

Increased Cultural relevance will be communicated as scientists and artists are now colliding to think of both disciplines as not only physical or emotional, but a source for innovative change in the world; integrally for years to come. Science combined with art has been undergone with artists like Olarfur Eliasson, TeamLab, Nick Ervinck and Neri Oxman. To many, National Museums are a place where you find artefacts of history. But combining both Art Galleries and National/Science Museums will design a more adaptive, futuristic perspective. Learning about the environment has transpired through processes of experimentation; but also questioning. These processes form art that makes the audience not only question the world around, but helps change futures. Art and science merging together has led to a lot of exhibits utilising the medium of technology for display and other non-traditional mediums. – augmenting interaction between audience and creator. Internationally there are already some Art Galleries and National/Science Museums that have merged; ArtScience Museum in Singapore, The Science Gallery in Dublin and the Museum of Discovery in Australia, and the design innovations are extraordinary – something that needs to be elaborated worldwide.

The hope is that In the future, the majority of institutions will convey a collaboration of art and science in galleries, with exhibits designed with a cutting edge and innovative concepts. Where visitors immerse themselves making connections that would ideally transform their ideologies of visual aesthetic elements and technological revelations. Witnessing exhibits portrayed on a large-scale or artworks that transform into a living reconnaissance.

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