Museum of the Essential and Beyond That

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URL of Journal	http://arteonline.arq.br
Title of Journal	Museum of the Essential and Beyond That
Editor or Publisher	Regina Pinto
Language	English, Portuguese
Description	This project consists of the creation of virtual architectures: a museum with its libraries and galleries that have no brick-and-mortar counterparts. It is common for real museums and libraries to have websites, but the process underway in our "museum" is rather uncommon. A museum that does not exist in the real world, and whose architecture and collections are formed by a string of digits: 01010101. The museum's contents were selected on the basis of the essential criteria of contemporaneousness and quality. The line of Contemporary Art that specifically interests us is Art and Technology. The fact is that this project, justifying the beyond that in its name, is a cultural center where a mouse click offers both a museum and a place for creation and communication where the visual arts are joined by music, filmmaking (animation), poetry, books and audiovisual research. "This characteristic is related to the aim of modern-day art, which is to embody in its works certain new forms of beauty that could only emerge through the reconvergence of all techniques" and technologies... Since its inception, at the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That, this reconvergence has been present in its watchwords: communication, information, multidisciplinarity, multiculturalism and mobility. Science and technology embracing art to protect it and give it the necessary conditions for life and growth.