The YouTube video of a Hood Museum Dartmouth college webinar hosted on January 21, 2021 on the topic of digital museums and how the pandemic has affected the art world.
Video description: "It's become a commonplace to hear that 2020 has forever changed the art world and cultural heritage in general. But this is a story we've heard before, during the dot-com boom of the early 2000s, when museums like the Guggenheim, Whitney, and SFMOMA made a leap to digital collections and programming. What lessons can be learned from the digital gold rush of the turn of the millennium, and how should museums apportion resources strained under the pandemic to take advantage of this latest transition? For this collaborative presentation, the three presenters compare the relative success of digital solutions—including virtual reality, crowdsourced metadata, and indigenous knowledge structures—from the past and present."