Problems and prospects of digital transformations in museum practice and contemporary art

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to clarify the problems and prospects of digital transformations in museum practice and contemporary art. The research methodology is based on the dialectical method necessary for the implementation of art history research, a critical analysis of cultural, art history sources; methods of deduction and induction; historical, logical and method of interdisciplinary synthesis. Scientific novelty. The state of scientific development of the problem in the field of digital humanities is revealed. A modern approach to the issues of digitization of museum collections and the creation of an electronic information resource of cultural heritage and cultural values of Ukraine is considered. The main aspects of the history of digital art are determined. The latest achievements of foreign and domestic researchers in the direction of digital transformations and the introduction of digital technologies have been studied and analyzed. Conclusions. The results of the study of literary sources on this topic led to the conclusion that in the analyzed publications of many authors, insufficient attention was paid to the problems of digital transformations in museum practice and the prospects for the use of immersive technologies in contemporary art.

Key words: Museum Fund of Ukraine, digital transformations, digitization, immersive technologies, digital art.