Call for Papers – DAHJ Issue #9, “The Art Museum in the New Hybridity,” explores the convergence of analog and digital media, focusing on the art museum in the new hybridity. Articles published on a rolling basis.
Possible topics to be addressed:
- New assumptions of hybridity (in provision, visitation, and operation) on which curatorship can now predicate its practice
- Use of new hybridities to remix, restage, and reframe the art museum’s function and form
- Shifts in operation and delivery, and the consequence for art production, display, and scholarship, including the logic of selection and interpretation of art in the modern media ecosystem
- “Platformization” and the erosion of the traditional rituals for engaging with art
- Forms of participation in hybrid spaces and the relationship between analog/digital and virtual/physical
Art historian, museum professional, and digital humanist Christian Huemer is the guest editor of Issue #9. After several years at the Getty Research Institute, he is currently Director of the Belvedere Research Center in Vienna where he oversees the development of analog and digital research infrastructure — including library, archive, online collection, and research journal. A central concern of his is to enable free, open and linked access to digitized cultural heritage. Since 2019, he has been organizing an annual international conference on “The Art Museum in the Digital Age.”
The call is now open and first articles are to be published in the second half of 2022. To submit articles, please register first at Contribute and then submit articles (6,000 words max.) in accordance with our style guide. We will be publishing articles on a rolling basis. For more information please visit Information for Authors.