Since it has been founded in 2003 the Digital Art Museum [DAM] Berlin has specialized in internationally acknowledged contemporary and historical digital art. The curator& galerist Wolf Lieser presents different aspects of this medium in his gallery: interactive installations, animations, software art, computer prints and netart.
[DAM] also includes an Essays section with articles by artists and theorists specially selected to place the works in context (many of them by special arrangement with Leonardo journal). A History section lists key events and technologies in date order.
[DAM] is intended for the enjoyment of all visitors, curators and collectors, scholars of art, and for an emerging generation of digital artists wishing to understand a 50-year heritage of innovation and experimentation.
Please find more details about the Digital Art Museum here: http://www.dam.org.
Join us on our caravan of questions on media art in Berlin...
Wolf Lieser, initiator of the [DAM]
On Saturday, January 20th 2007, Upgrade! Berlin together with an audience of media artists and curators was gathering at the Digital Art Museum to have a talk with the galerist Wolf Lieser about digital art. We were interested in finding out more about this gallery, which calls itself "museum" and originated from an online archive: how does the audience respond to the artworks? How to present digital art in a gallery? Is the term "media art" still a category of its own or can it be seen as a part of contemporary art? Which role does the [DAM] play within the media art scene in Berlin? Who can participate?
You can see the video of this Upgrade! field trip and the talk with Wolf Lieser here.
