Guggenheim Museum Announces Multi-Year LG Initiative – ARTnews.com

The Guggenheim is committing to the burgeoning subject of technological know-how-based art.

The museum introduced Wednesday the LG Guggenheim Artwork and Technologies Initiative, which encompasses a new once-a-year award plan and the creation of a curatorial situation focused to art that engages with digital and augmented fact, artificial intelligence, NFTS, and more.

The LG Guggenheim Award, administered by the Guggenheim Foundation, will identify 1 artist each individual calendar year for “groundbreaking achievements in engineering-dependent artwork.” The award will be juried by an international panel of  artists, curators, museum directors, and other artwork specialists, and carries an unrestricted prize of $100,000. The first recipient will be introduced at upcoming year’s Young Collectors’ Council Social gathering.

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The inaugural LG Electronics assistant curator will concentrate on “deepening” the Guggenheim’s ties to these artists, in the variety of exhibitions, study, and education.

Naomi Beckwith, museum deputy director and main curator, explained in a statement that by “promoting scholarship and general public engagement, the LG Guggenheim initiative will deliver critical help to the visionary artists who inspire new comprehending of how technological know-how designs and is formed by society.”

The LG initiative is a substantial action in the Guggenheim’s endeavours to innovate its programming. In 2021, the museum debuted a sequence of installations titled “Re/Projections: Online video, Film, and Efficiency for the Rotunda”, that crammed its central spiral with experiments in acquainted art varieties and cutting-edge engineering. Its final presentation was Wu Tsang’s unearthly “Anthem”, a looped film projected on a lengthy curtain suspended from the ceiling.

The application may also help the Guggenheim capture up to New York institutions with extensive-term investments in emergent artwork: Christiane Paul has served at the Whitney as adjunct curator of digital artwork given that 2000. She was dependable for the museum’s important exhibition “Programmed: Policies, Codes, and Choreographies in Artwork, 1965–2018,” which tracked the historical past of technological art and tried to visualize its potential. The New Museum debuted an incubator for art, technology, and style in 2014.

Every single institution, however, is continue to grappling with how nascent systems like NFTs and the metaverse will form the enduring of artwork.

The LG Initiative, the Guggenheim explained, “will provide important support” to the “mission to accumulate, maintain, and interpret the art of our time.”