{"id":591,"date":"2016-02-02T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/?p=591"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:25:16","slug":"week-5-object-or-experience-as-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/2016\/02\/02\/week-5-object-or-experience-as-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5: Object or Experience as Art?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-608\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/1082135250-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"1082135250\" width=\"258\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/1082135250-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/1082135250-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/1082135250.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 85vw, 258px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-609\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/DP105726.jpg\" alt=\"DP105726\" width=\"188\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Museums have undergone a shift from displaying objects as art to experiences as art to now&#8230; the entire\u00a0act of\u00a0museum-going act as art?<\/p>\n<p>Many museums have instituted rigorous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/17\/arts\/design\/museums-pursue-engagement-with-social-media.html?pagewanted=all\">social media campaigns<\/a>, encouraging patrons to engage with artworks in the digital realm. As part of these efforts, museums have taken to\u00a0inspiring patrons to post images of artworks on platforms like Instagram and Twitter, with various hashtags designed to increase the viewership of those posts and, by proxy, those works. This strategy has proved particularly successful for experience-based works that utilize an element of spectacle in their production. Searching the hastags #rainroom, #lacmalights, and #infinityroom on Instagram produced 33,507, 12,077, and 11,494 results respectively. Patrons connect with the pieces, it seems, as much by physically experiencing the works as by documenting and sharing their experiences on social media.<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, this trend\u00a0has the positive power of engaging patrons from around the world, who would not otherwise have the opportunity to view the pieces. Although a viewer on the other side of the world, for example,\u00a0might not have the means\u00a0to travel to Los Angeles and walk within the rain room, she can still gain some sense of the piece by viewing photos of it on Instagram. Some engagement with art (however removed from the intended\u00a0form of interaction with the piece) is still better than no engagement with art.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, in our culture, the pressure to document and share our experiences can overwhelm the experiences themselves.\u00a0In my museum going, I have observed patrons focusing more on getting the perfect photo of a piece of artwork than on merely being in the presence of the work and reveling in the act of looking. I, too, have found myself guilty of this fault on many occasions. In fact, I have even used my camera as a means of distancing myself from various events or situations\u00a0(the viewfinder creates a physical barrier between the scene in front of me and my perception of it, allowing myself to detach from what&#8217;s playing out).<\/p>\n<p>So, should art be about the object or the experience? And,\u00a0if a museum or patron involves social media, is art really about either of those things or something completely different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Museums have undergone a shift from displaying objects as art to experiences as art to now&#8230; the entire\u00a0act of\u00a0museum-going act as art? Many museums have instituted rigorous social media campaigns, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/2016\/02\/02\/week-5-object-or-experience-as-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 5: Object or Experience as Art?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}