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Art Newspaper Podcast: Is the future of museums in Africa?

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>In this episode of the Art Newspaper podcast, The Week in Art, host Ben Luke looks at museums and Africa, exploring the future of museums and African institutions’ central role in in, as well as the 19th-century looting of the Benin Bronzes and what it tells us about museums and colonialism, then and now. Speakers include Sonia Lawson, the founding director of the Palais de Lomé in Togo, and András Szántó, on the occasion of his new book The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues.</p>

A new kind of museum is emerging—here’s what the future holds

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>Expanding upon the conversations in his new book about what the future holds for museums, in this article in The Art Newspaper, András Szántó surveys how museum leaders are shifting approaches and drawing conclusions from a difficult 2020. “2020 cemented the embrace of an expanded museum mission, already reflected in the International Council of Museums’s inconclusive attempt last year to come up with a new definition of the museum, one that goes beyond the custodianship of objects to position it as an institution committed to serving communities and addressing social needs. For today’s museum leaders, these two imperatives are not contradictory but complementary—and by all accounts, the Covid experience has deepened the sentiment.”</p>

How does science end up in a museum of contemporary art?

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>On the occasion of the exhibition BARABÁSILAB: Hidden Patterns. The Language of Network Thinking at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, this virtual event features Media an unusual exhibition tour, dissecting the connection between art and science with Albert-László Barabási, András Szántó, and museum director, theoretician and media artist, Peter Weibel.</p>

Aesthetics of Network Research with Albert-László Barabási and Nóra Winkler

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>How can social and cultural phenomena be examined from the approach of network thinking? Can these relationships be visualized? While illustrations of scientific research certainly have an aesthetic dimension, the question may still arise in many, yet how can network science get into the museum András Szántó speaks with Nóra Winkler and Albert-László Barabási on this and more in this talk hosted in Hungary.</p>

The Now Through Art Lenses

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>In this episode of 15′ Talks #TheNowThroughArtLenses by Bocconi Students Arts Society, András Szántó was interviewed by Giada Tagliabue and Federica Profeti about the situation and the problems the art sector is currently facing.Conversation | 2020 | </p>

Talking Virtual Reality: Recreating the Museum Experience

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>New-media art has been a rapidly developing field, embracing extended reality (XR), VR and AR as well as internet-based work and generative art. The lockdown has encouraged greater audience exploration and sharing of screen-based works of art. Nevertheless, the perception remains that new-media art is difficult to display, collect and maintain. András Szántó discusses this and more in this online panel, presented as part of Art + FinTech 2.0, which aims to uncover, examine and debate the new age of digital disruption and innovation in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.</p>

How will the Pandemic Change Institutions?

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>The Covid-19 pandemic has confronted museums with questions ranging from the practical to the existential. What role should museums play in a time of crisis and recovery? How to welcome visitors safely? What are the changes needed for these institutions to stay relevant and sustainable in tomorrow’s social and cultural landscape? András Szántó joined Anne Pasternak, Philip Tinari, and Dr. Zoé Whitley for a discussion on these important questions moderated by Art Basel’s Marc Spiegler.</p>

Technology & the Future of Museums

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>The role of the museum as a repository of physical objects that give access to collective memory is changing. New digital recording technologies that, among other things, allow exact facsimiles to be made, are providing access to a global audience, while new display technologies are inviting us to look at the nature of the object with new eyes. This panel, presented by the Art Newspaper and Factum Foundation with Il Giornale Dell’Arte, discusses the purpose of a museum, its role, what should it show, how and to whom. It will look at the way technology is making a ‘museum without walls’ possible and realigning the relationship between the original and the authentic.</p>