http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/11/26/muva/ Tue, 2 Dec 2008 21:56:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/11/26/muva/#comment-383086 Alicia Haber Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:17:25 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/11/26/muva/#comment-383086 Thank you so much for writing about MUVA in your blog. I am the project manager and director, and I created the projec back in 1996, the idea of having a virtual building was mine, because we do not have financial resources to build a new museum in Uruguay. Also the collections are poor.I am a curator and have been frustrated all my life. Of course I needed and need experts in computing, virtual design, Internet, architects and photographers. It is a low cost project because most of us are employed already by a newspaper El Pais ( I am an art critic there) and EL Pais has a site. In this museum, in both version, visitors can see many works of art that are in private collections or in artists studios and at least see it in modern buildings, nice and clean, with elevators and escalators. There is a lot of information, it means to be like a art history class for college students, both for locals and for the foreigners because we also have not too much visibility in foreign countries due to the lack of financial resources although we have very good art. The text are written by me in the first version and in the second by me and by many other curators and art historians. In the second version there are videos, voices, music, interaction and many opinions by the artists themselves etc. It was created ten years before Second Life and very early in the history of Internet and the concept is non profit, educational and more intellectual. Everything was done in Uruguay with local people and with no external consulting and no company, just us with the suppor of the newspaper. Well, in any case I invite the reader to visit it and give their own opinion. The new version is much more developed now and much more contemporary and it is growing with new exhibitions. Thank you so much for writing about MUVA in your blog. I am the project manager and director, and I created the projec back in 1996, the idea of having a virtual building was mine, because we do not have financial resources to build a new museum in Uruguay. Also the collections are poor.I am a curator and have been frustrated all my life. Of course I needed and need experts in computing, virtual design, Internet, architects and photographers. It is a low cost project because most of us are employed already by a newspaper El Pais ( I am an art critic there) and EL Pais has a site.
In this museum, in both version, visitors can see many works of art that are in private collections or in artists studios and at least see it in modern buildings, nice and clean, with elevators and escalators. There is a lot of information, it means to be like a art history class for college students, both for locals and for the foreigners because we also have not too much visibility in foreign countries due to the lack of financial resources although we have very good art. The text are written by me in the first version and in the second by me and by many other curators and art historians. In the second version there are videos, voices, music, interaction and many opinions by the artists themselves etc.
It was created ten years before Second Life and very early in the history of Internet and the concept is non profit, educational and more intellectual. Everything was done in Uruguay with local people and with no external consulting and no company, just us with the suppor of the newspaper.
Well, in any case I invite the reader to visit it and give their own opinion. The new version is much more developed now and much more contemporary and it is growing with new exhibitions.

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