Digitalxplorers

  On March 27th, we came to the end of our journey in the 'Crossmedial Exhibition' course - a course that allowed us to explore the world of museums and their potential.   During our last session, we presented our research papers, which gave us a chance to understand the topics our peers were investigating and how they connected to our own interests and field of study. As we come from different backgrounds, seeing how our individual perspectives could be applied to the museum setting was exciting. Through the presentation, we discussed how to improve our papers and exchanged ideas and opinions about the changes we could make. As many of us used the same sources, inevitably, as the texts proposed during the course were beneficial and encompassed the world of museums from all perspectives, new sources were also proposed, which many of us will find helpful in our research papers.   It is essential to emphasize that all the ideas for the works were different and aimed to ...

18 0000 worlds by Saodat Ismailova at the Eye Museum is a capturing experience in which truly 18 0000 dimensions are to be unearthed, whether these are worlds, landscapes or dreams.   Saodat shares in an intimate and very powerful way her heritage and takes the visitors on a journey through 18 0000 worlds, in which rituals, myths, traditions and landscapes are essential elements in the retellings of an harrowing past of a suppressed culture and nation.  The exhibition is primarily held in one big openspace, complemented by one sideroom where a new work of Ismailova was presented. The exhibition is in an interdisciplinary manner constructed, in addition to big video installations, it also includes some neon light and textile installations that support the centralized cinematic works. The exhibition reflects on the survival and creation in Central Asia, and the role of the USSR in this horrifying history. It touches upon themes as colonization, regime changes, and gendered ...

 by Erick Vázquez Natasha Greenhalg, creative director and co-founder of the NXT Museum sat with students from the VU for a chat evening. It was a delightful experience that helped broaden the experience after visiting the UFO exhibition. UFO exhibition by NXT Museum. Photo by Erick Vázquez The first part of the conversation was centered on the very nature of the museum. The NXT is thought of as a space to show and interact with art created and experienced through new media. Although the digital art has been present in other museums and exhibitions, NXT is trying to stablish itself as a house hold name and a permanent place for artists that explore these new creative forces (Michelle Henning, New Media). A curious anecdote (that still speaks a lot of the society we live in) is that the word “museum” was not well received at the beginning with the people nearby the museum. This states that the word has an elitists and boring connotation. Still, to Natasha it was important that her p...