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Intervention was an exhibition created by the Detroit Institute of
Arts [DIA] in 1995 where Detroit Artist were invited to produce and
place a work of art in context [intervene with] of the collection on
display. Consequently, the works were spread through the museum
to be discovered by visitors.
For my
Intervention, I created a virtual art work that I housed in a computer
disguised within display created from industrial age artifacts. The
design of the display was suggest by me to artist Matthew Blake who
skillfully interpreted the idea and created the unit shown above.
Links:
Lowell Boileau Fine Arts Online
Gallery
Interventions
Artists
Detroit Institute of Arts
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Intervention
by Lowell Boileau
Concept:
What is the meaning of visual art in the information age where the
visual experience of artworks is increasingly by virtual
presentations? Can this new 'reality' be hijacked and
interpreted at will? Can a museum be totally intervened, reinvented
and presented to an unknowing world wide audience far larger than all
who have ever visited the museum? It is an old question. What is
art? Who gets to present art as art?
Manifestation:
1-Create a virtual tour of the DIA using Macromedia Director
software that allows visitors to sit at a post industrial artifact
display [concealing a web connected computer] and mouse their way,
room by room, through a digitally transformed DIA whose artworks have
been removed and replaced by those of my friends and mine - a total
intervention [takeover] of the museum.
2-Extend the reach of this total intervention to the World Wide Web
via a website representation. This is the original 1995 website
of the exhibition.
3-Manipulate the presentation at will to further distance the
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