Art in the Era of Social Media: How Instagram has Shaped a New Relationship Between Museums, Galleries, and their Visitors
Creative project part of the Transforming (Critical) Practices module (2019) in the MA Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. I analysed various ways in which Instagram has changed visitors’ approach to art in museums and galleries, and how these institutions adapted to this platform accordingly.
https://artandinstagram.wordpress.com/
In the pre-digital photography era the message was “This is what I am seeing. I have seen” and today the message is “I was there. I came, I saw, and I selfied.”
JiaJia Fei
Director of Digital, Jewish Museum
Blog posts:
- Instagram aesthetics and free labour
- How museums and galleries are adapting to Instagram
- Instagram takeovers
- The importance of #hashtags
- The Kusama effect
- Museum: From ritual site to stage for events
- Should photography be allowed in art museums and galleries?
- Art replicas I: Becoming a work of art
- Art replicas II: Standing in front of a reproduction
- The imagined audience
- A demand for experiences: The rise of pop-up museums
- Alternative memory devices
- To be continued
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Goldsmiths, University of London
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