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| [[contributors#kundracikova|Barbora Kundračíková]] | [[contributors#kundracikova|Barbora Kundračíková]] |
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| The New Media Programme is one of the new "small flagships" of the Olomouc Museum of Art – Central European Forum. Why "flagship" and why "small"? Or rather, how are these two adjectives related? For a long time, local collecting institutions have avoided new media, citing both the high costs associated with their maintenance and their not entirely stable and demonstrable artistic quality as reasons. The new media were simply too new for the tradition to grasp and safely incorporate, confusing their users and confounding their audiences. Although they are still at times a mere decoy, their importance continues to grow – making it almost impossible to imagine the art of the last thirty years without them. I consider the deficit we are forced to cope with because of the non-existent collections, paradoxically, to be one of our greatest benefits – it offers us an unprecedented opportunity to reassess and share. And it is in this sense that I understand and use the phrase "small flagship". | The New Media Programme is one of the new "small flagships" of the Olomouc Museum of Art – Central European Forum. Why "flagship" and why "small"? Or rather, how are these two adjectives related? For a long time, local collecting institutions have avoided new media, citing both the high costs associated with their maintenance and their not entirely stable and demonstrable artistic quality as reasons. The new media were simply too new for the tradition to grasp and safely incorporate, confusing their users and confounding their audiences. Although they are still at times a mere decoy, their importance continues to grow – making it almost impossible to imagine the art of the last thirty years without them. I consider the deficit we are forced to cope with because of the non-existent collections, paradoxically, to be one of our greatest benefits – it offers us an unprecedented opportunity to reassess and share. And it is in this sense that I understand and use the phrase "small flagship." |
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| It was not until Hayden White at the latest that historiography has been systematically interested in its own narratology. Today, narrative seems to be its middle name, of course also under the impression of the fundamental social and political changes we are currently witnessing first-hand – in Ukraine. Although we are indeed facing substantial changes in discourse, we can still only prepare ourselves – and the field of new media might be a good vehicle for that. Let us build new stories on the foundations of old ones! | It was not until Hayden White at the latest that historiography has been systematically interested in its own narratology. Today, narrative seems to be its middle name, of course also under the impression of the fundamental social and political changes we are currently witnessing first-hand – in Ukraine. Although we are indeed facing substantial changes in discourse, we can still only prepare ourselves – and the field of new media might be a good vehicle for that. Let us build new stories on the foundations of old ones! |
