Virtual Field Trip
  
     
  Divide into groups for this exercise.  Each group will visit 2 art spaces online. One will be a physical museum which has an online presence.  The second art space will be one in which the art can only experienced online.

Keep careful notes on the kind of information you discover and its completeness. 

Choose one exhibit in each art space. Itemize the differences between your experience of the "traditional" piece of art online and  the experience of the work of art (virtual) that can only be experienced online. 

****It is totally irrelevant whether you think this is art or not: we don't care****

Here are some questions to consider:

1. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of experiencing "traditional" art online?

2. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of experiencing virtual art?

3. Art that can only be experienced online is a fairly new phemonemon. Identify some of the genres of this kind of art that are emerging. 

4. What are the differences and similarities between what we commonly think of as digital art and the art than can only be experienced online?

5. What is your role as a user? (Refer to Janet Murray's criteria from the multimedia texts assignment.

 
     
 
Art Spaces
Group 1: 
The Getty Museum
DIA center 		 Group 2:
The Whitney Museum of American Art
Museum of Web Art MOWA 
Group 3:
The British Museum
E Space (see Artists' Projects)		 Group 4:
The Guggenheim
A Story of Net Art
Group 5:
The Louvre
Core Meltdown		 Group 6:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Emerson Gallery 
(Select Casting a Net)
Group 7:
The Tate Modern
Art Port Whitney		  
 
 
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fall 2003
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