{"id":242,"date":"2024-12-05T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T16:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2025-04-10T00:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T00:32:26","slug":"guided-by-the-light-rethinking-approaches-to-the-assessment-of-light-based-artworks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/guided-by-the-light-rethinking-approaches-to-the-assessment-of-light-based-artworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Guided by the Light: Rethinking Approaches to the Assessment of Light-Based Artworks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Guided by the Light: Rethinking Approaches to the Assessment of Light-Based Artworks<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

sasha arden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contemporary Art Review, Volume 2 (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guiados Por La Luz: Repensar Los Enfoques Para La Evaluaci\u00f3n De Obras De Arte Basadas En La Luz<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

sasha arden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contemporary Art Review, Volumen 2 (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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light art, incandescent, LED, replacement, assessment, significance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Light-based artworks are a unique subset of cultural assets that challenge current stewardship strategies at collecting institutions. Incandescent bulbs have been used as an artistic medium from the early twentieth century. Following shifts in technological developments and environmental regulations worldwide, however, they can be considered obsolete. As a result, the integrity of many light-based artworks is now at risk. Substitution of light emitting diode (LED) bulbs in place of incandescents is increasingly common due to obsolescence, expense, and safety concerns. Obsolescence introduces an urgency around accurately capturing the work-defining properties of light sources. The tight linkage between their tangible and intangible elements creates vulnerabilities for the integrity of these artworks, which are exacerbated over time with increasing generation gaps after replacement of light sources. Three case studies utilizing incandescent light sources illustrate how threats to artwork stability can manifest through LED replacement, revealing the variable outcomes to this form of treatment. This research seeks to outline a holistic approach to assessing change in light-based artworks, using Fernando Dom\u00ednguez Rubio\u2019s mimeographic and neographic actions to explore a framework that broadly considers the concept of significance beyond technical characteristics and takes into account the impact of values upheld by museum practices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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arte luminoso, incandescente, LED, reemplazo, evaluaci\u00f3n, significado<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Las obras de arte basadas en la luz son un subconjunto \u00fanico de bienes culturales que desaf\u00edan las estrategias actuales de gesti\u00f3n en las instituciones que albergan colecciones. Las bombillas incandescentes se han utilizado como medio art\u00edstico desde principios del siglo XX. Sin embargo, debido a los cambios en los desarrollos tecnol\u00f3gicos y las regulaciones ambientales en todo el mundo, pueden considerarse obsoletos. Como resultado, la integridad de muchas obras de arte basadas en la luz est\u00e1 ahora en riesgo. La sustituci\u00f3n de bombillas incandescentes por bombillas de diodos emisores de luz (LED) es cada vez m\u00e1s com\u00fan debido a problemas de obsolescencia, gastos y seguridad. La obsolescencia introduce la urgencia de capturar con precisi\u00f3n las propiedades de las fuentes de luz que definen el trabajo. El estrecho v\u00ednculo entre sus elementos tangibles e intangibles crea vulnerabilidades para la integridad de estas obras de arte, que se exacerban con el tiempo a medida que aumentan las brechas generacionales despu\u00e9s del reemplazo de las fuentes de luz. Tres estudios de caso que utilizan fuentes de luz incandescentes ilustran c\u00f3mo las amenazas a la estabilidad de las obras de arte pueden manifestarse a trav\u00e9s del reemplazo con LED, revelando los resultados variables de esta forma de tratamiento.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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arden, sasha. 2024. \u201cGuided by the Light: Rethinking Approaches to the Assessment of Light-Based Artworks \/ Guiados por la luz: Repensar los enfoques para la evaluaci\u00f3n de obras de Arte basadas en la luz.\u201d In Contemporary Art Review<\/em>, Vol. 2. Edited by Gabrielle Crowther, Delia M\u00fcller-W\u00fcsten, and Martha Singer. Washington, DC: AIC. 1\u201315.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guided by the Light: Rethinking Approaches to the Assessment of Light-Based Artworks sasha arden Contemporary Art Review, Volume 2 (2022) Guiados Por La Luz: Repensar Los Enfoques Para La Evaluaci\u00f3n De Obras De Arte Basadas En La Luz sasha arden Contemporary Art Review, Volumen 2 (2022) Keywords light art, incandescent, LED, replacement, assessment, significance Abstract […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}