Tagged With: contemporary art

As part of her two-week data residency at M+, George Oates considers how a new, contemporary museum could shape itself through 21st century museum practices to ensure a strong digital foundation, and one that specifically cultivates digital distribution of contemporary visual culture.

In this blog post, George Oates examines how M+'s approaches the opportunities afforded by 21st century museum practices, like open data and open collection imagery, and relates this to its public API and collection metadata to produce data visualisation and analysis.

This Medium post describes how Hong Kong's M+ museum decided to move towards open access for its contemporary collections, how it manages complex rights scenarios.

This journal article outlines the ways in which UK copyright law prioritises traditional forms of visual art over contemporary forms like performance art, arguing that a focus on moral rights rather than economic rights could provide one way of radically reforming the law.