The purpose of this essay has been to investigate the conditions for making the Swedish national public art collections available with the help of digitization. Together with the art owned by the state the municipalities' and regions' art holdings have also been added to the delimitation, and in addition, the interpretation of the concept of public art is made broad by including both traditional framed and easily moveable art together with building-related art. The art collection in the focus of the essay is thus managed in a decentralized structure which is examined with a survey and a case study. The survey provides quantitative data on the size of the art collection and the choice of system. The case study aims to highlight the importance of the organizational form and to describe how digital technology is used today to make art accessible. A summation of the municipal, regional and state collections of public art amounts to approximately one million works of art. The survey also showed that there is a great deal of variation when it comes to the choice of administrative data system for inventorying and otherwise managing the public sector's art collections. In order to be able to draw conclusions based on the choice of collection systems, a taxonomy was developed where a total of 35 different systems were sorted into five different characteristics. The analysis showed that the large art collections get more appropriate systems than small art collections and that there are rational grounds for these choices. The case study showed that there is a great deal of variation when it comes to titles and naming of organizational units. The staff who work with art in the case study's small to medium-sized municipalities often have many and widely different areas of responsibility. Among the regions of the case study, there are examples of art being managed by the property administration, but the most common is that the activity belongs to the cultural administration. In the case study, it is not possible to find any connection between organizational form and degree of accessibility. On the other hand, it is expressed that shared premises with a museum provide a richer professional context. The degree of accessibility in the case study is as low as 1% of the collection in most cases. The way that art is made available, via an individual municipality or region's website, or social media, makes it difficult to search widely for works of art owned by the Swedish public sector. This last observation also becomes an essential part of the conclusion that the conditions for making public art accessible via digitization exist, but it is not a work that seems to be progressing successfully today.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-485513 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Nygårds, Anders |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, Student, konstvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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