THE FLOW OF ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE: REFİK ANADOL'S MELTING MEMORIES EXHIBITION
DİJİTAL ÇAĞDA SANATIN AKIŞI: REFİK ANADOL’UN ERİYEN HATIRALAR SERGİSİ ÖRNEĞİ

Author : İREM ÇOBAN -- Berna KILIÇOĞLU
Number of pages : 230-243

Abstract

In today's contemporary world order, the digitalization phenomenon that has spread even daily life- has opened an important place for itself in the field of art. Avant-garde artists and writers had questioned why only certain things were privileged and valuable; they protested art museums and, in general, the preservation of the art of the past. The digitalization of art and the characteristic of being in a rapid flow, as Boris Groys opines, have made it possible to realize that the artwork depends on its own context in our time. At this point, Walter Benjamin’s claim that copying of artworks, placement and protection of them in a safe location cause a loss of artwork’s aura, is also valid for digital artworks? Or is it possible to create an aura in digital artworks that do not carry a concrete objectivity in the traditional sense? Do the main characteristics of digital artworks as being a digital image in the process of being created and in the process of being archived, give them the ability to exist in the flow? In the study, in order to find answers to the questions quoted above, at first, the concepts of modernity, post-modernity, art, digitalization and digitalization of art will be examined on the basis of literature search. Then, the flow characteristics of digital artworks will be analyzed through the example of Refik Anadol's Melting Memories Exhibition -which treats humanity’s relationship with memory through digital technology- selected as a sample.

Keywords

Art, Digitalization, Flow, Museum, Artwork, Digital Art, Refik Anadol

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