"Museomediáticas", variations on the museum in the digital era

The Museo Nacional de Colombia, in collaboration with the Asociación de Amigos del Museo and curated by Andrés García La Rota, presents the exhibition "Museomediáticas, variaciones sobre el museo en la era digital" that arrives for the first time in Latin America and is exhibited simultaneously with the Museum of Visual Arts of Pingshan (China) and the Modern Institute of Kyiv (Ukraine). It shows the relationship museums have had with technology and how this has been a fundamental axis to dissolve the barriers that existed between art and science.

In the words of the curator, "in this exhibition, we will talk about hypertext, Internet, metaverse and mixed realities such as virtual and augmented reality. The show points out different technical processes of media concerning the work, media that have to do with the mechanical, the electronic, and the digital. We had as a premise the following questions: what will happen to museums in the 21st century, what happens to the body that has been locked up, as has happened with the latest pandemic events, and how has technology transmuted the body?

The exhibition brings together a series of works developed on mechanical, electrical, and digital supports and is divided into six sections. For Juliana Restrepo, director of the National Museum, "this analog-digital experience proposes reflections on several levels on the challenges and questions of the museum in the digital era, on digital conservation, the digital collection, digital reproduction, on the appropriation of heritage and on copyright in these times mediated by screens and social media."

The exhibition will be open until February 27, 2022, in the Talleres del Panóptico gallery at the Museo Nacional, where interactions with the public are proposed. It will also feature two debates where experts will talk about the challenges of museums in the digital world.