The Museum of Ephemeral Art

We believe that great physical artworks that were meant to be ephemeral deserve our full attention regarding how we handle all of the available visual documentation. This website is more than a mere proof-of-concept of what shape a Museum might have in the future. Yet, this website, the Museum of Ephemeral Art, is also a work-in-progress. Our goal as a museum is to give audiences a chance to rediscover important ephemeral artworks that have been forgotten, hidden or destroyed.

One of the goals of MOEA is to explore the potential of artist archives. Most artist estates are built around massive personal archives collected over a lifetime of traveling, networking and working. These archives are not always accessible to the public. Even in the cases where the archives are available they are usually not digitized. Additionally, It can be hard to get access to physically fragile material. Even with access they can be difficult to navigate without more advances technologies and tools like negative scanners and they often need art historical knowledge and context.

We think that re-experiencing these artworks as an immersive experience could bring new perspectives and inspiration to a wide variety of audiences, transforming the artworks themselves into the contemporary age. The Museum of Ephemeral Art uses top of the line photogrametric Artificial Intelligence Software on a high end Computer to create with high precision 3D models out of any available jpg and png, in Collaboration with the Geography Department of the Universidad Austral de Chile (UAcH).

We hope that Museums University and Libraries could eventually integrate these newly manifested versions of the artworks as educational resources.

We anticipate that the new technologies to recreate these spatial situations now, will soon be commonplace and that, once in a while, our Museum will be the space where you spend a couple of hours with your friends and family to see the latest exhibition of ephemeral art.

- May 2024