The Guggenheim Museum is making a commitment to the burgeoning field of technology-based art

The Guggenheim Museum is making a commitment to the burgeoning field of technology-based art

Jean Dubreil | Jun 3, 2022 2 minutes read 0 comments
 

LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative was announced on Wednesday. Curatorial position will be dedicated to art that engages with virtual and augmented reality.

The LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative was announced on Wednesday, and it includes a new annual award program as well as the creation of a curatorial position dedicated to art that engages with virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, NFTS, and other technologies. The Guggenheim Foundation will administer the LG Guggenheim Award, which will recognize one artist each year for "groundbreaking achievements in technology-based art." The award, which carries a $100,000 unrestricted prize, will be judged by an international panel of artists, curators, museum directors, and other art professionals. The first recipient will be announced at the Young Collectors' Council Party next year. The inaugural LG Electronics assistant curator will be responsible for "deepening" the Guggenheim's ties to such artists through exhibitions, research, and education.

According to Naomi Beckwith, the museum's deputy director and chief curator, "the LG Guggenheim initiative will provide essential support to the visionary artists who inspire a new understanding of how technology shapes and is shaped by society."

The LG initiative represents an important step forward in the Guggenheim's efforts to innovate its programming. In 2021, the museum debuted "Re/Projections: Video, Film, and Performance for the Rotunda," a series of installations that filled its central spiral with experiments in familiar art forms and cutting-edge technology. Wu Tsang's unearthly "Anthem," a looped film projected on a long curtain suspended from the ceiling, was its final presentation. The program may also assist the Guggenheim in catching up to New York institutions with long-term investments in emerging art: Christiane Paul has been an adjunct curator of digital art at the Whitney since 2000. She was in charge of the museum's seminal exhibition "Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018," which traced the evolution of technological art and attempted to envision its future. In 2014, the New Museum debuted an incubator for art, technology, and design.

Every institution, however, is still grappling with how emerging technologies such as NFTs and the metaverse will shape the way people experience art. The Guggenheim stated that the LG Initiative "will provide critical support" to the "mission to collect, preserve, and interpret contemporary art."

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