Narrative and Museology of New Media Art: A Pending Challenge, 60 Years Later

Abstract

The historiographical account of media arts is yet to be written. The lack of responsibility of the (mis)named “contemporary art museums”, evading their responsibility to include in their collections and to musealize the media art practices created since the middle of the 20th century, demands an exercise of Governance that involves explaining what media arts are; constructing their account; contextualizing them and musealizing them, assuming institutional responsibility with all this new artistic and cultural heritage, which needs to be preserved, organized, exhibited, narrated and disseminated.

This text, written from artistic, curatorial, theoretical, teaching and museum management experience in the field of new media, explains each of these aspects, describing the actions necessary to solve this “pending history” and preserve this “memory at risk” to which the title alludes.