Deconstruction-reconstruction : the experiential catalogue of time passes

• Main Author: Tan, Jenson Gabriel Hong Charn
• Other Authors: Ng Ee Ching Candice
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Visual arts and music::Art museums and galleries; Library and information science::Archives and records management::Digital preservation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/149692
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In line with the recent pandemic in 2020, physical visual art exhibitions have been translated online for the sake of social distancing and the prevention of intermingling. Due to time constraints from the urgency of the matter, many translations of physical to digital exhibitions are completed in haste, resulting in the loss of physical experience when viewing an exhibition. Deconstruction Reconstruction is a project that investigates the conditions that are considered when making a physical exhibition digital; comparing it to the considerations of creating a digital exhibition that was conceived as fully digital. In line with this process, the project aims to analyse the loopholes when exhibitions are shifting digitally and explore the significance of this phenomena. This inquiry also looks at the exhibition catalogue – also known as the exhibition’s legacy, and what happens when digitalisation changes the use and preservation of the exhibition catalogue. The project also differentiates the virtual exhibition and the use of a catalogue. It reads into literature that looks at the various forms of virtual exhibitions and the use of the exhibition catalogue. Conclusively, it aims to integrate and understand the use of digitisation and the exhibition catalogue and finds contemporary case studies of virtual exhibitions and catalogues that hold true to these writings.