DIGITIZING IDEAS:
ARCHIVES OF CONCEPTUAL AND NEOAVANTGARDE ART PRACTICES
(March 2011)
– visual identity, website, lecture invitation
Digitizing Ideas: Archives of Conceptual and Neo-Avantgarde Art Practices is a joint project initiated by the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, which involves the Museum of Contemporary Visual Arts from Vojvodina, Modern Gallery in Ljubljana, and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The core of the project is an internet data base, which comprises and presents digitized materials from the collections, archives, and libraries of museums-partners, as well as from various private archives. These materials largely consist of unconventional artworks and publications, which at the time of their creation, in the period from 1960s-1980s, evaded being enclosed in museum collections and glass cases. Today their rarity and fragility demands special protection, which is mostly contrary to the principles that had originally triggered their creation.
The project seeks to address the gap in education and raise general awareness of conceptual art practices in Central and South-eastern Europe of 60s and 70s, where despite lacking communication with the Western world, ideas and creativity found their paths to artistic expression.
www.digitizing-ideas.org