The myth of immateriality -presenting new media art

摘要

The process-oriented nature of the digital medium poses numerous challenges to the traditional art world, ranging from presentation to collection and preservation. The standards for presenting, collecting and preserving art have been tailored to objects for the longest time and few of them are applicable to new media works, which constitute a shift from object to process and substantially differ from previous process-oriented or dematerialized art forms. New media art in its multiple manifestations has become an important part of contemporary artistic practice that the art world cannot afford to ignore, but accommodating this art form within the institution and 'art system' raises numerous conceptual, philosophical and practical issues.