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The Digital Museum of Modern Art is a real museum, but it exists entirely in cyberspace. Not the spawn of some great megalopolis like New York City or Chicago, it was instead (like a twisted character of a William Gibson novel), born in the outfields of Cleveland, Ohio.

The Digital Museum of Modern Art is not traditionalist or reactionary with respect to presenting art. Galleries may be a necessary feature of the modern museum, but they are now inadequate if not conjoined with technology as a coequal partner. Free from the limitations of physical space, time and budget; the Digital Museum of Modern Art has the ability to present the full spectrum of art being made in Northeast Ohio.

Innovation is the touchstone of The Digital Museum of Modern Art. Innovation means far more than use of the Internet (now well articulated after more than 10 years of development). Museums are now using cellphones and PDAs as vehicles to bring art to the people. Leading the way is the Digital Museum of Modern Art. See:

Art Finds a Mobile Home.

The article, which appears in the June, 2005 edition of EContent, begins:

People already create, distribute, and consume mobile information and entertainment in the forms of news, music, and games; now art has gone mobile too. Several organizations are harnessing mobile technology to bring art to the masses and to provide artists with new outlets and creative forms.

Leading the way is the Digital Museum of Modern Art (DMOMA), a museum existing exclusively in cyberspace. Over the last months the museum has showcased the work of some of its best-known artists in a series of "cellphone exhibitions."

According to W. Logan Fry, the museum's founder and chief curator, mobile offers a perfect medium for art because it allows users to bypass elite gallery systems and experience art on their terms. Admission is airtime for the viewer, and artists can exhibit their work for free. This egalitarian approach to art and access has its roots in Fry's personal conviction that art isn't limited to a particular space or place in time. "All art can be reduced to a sequence of binary bits—zeroes and ones in endless succession," Fry says.

Can all art be be reduced to a sequence of binary bits—zeros and ones in endless succession? The Digital Museum of Modern Art invites the "rejected" artists of NEO to find out. Take your art to the World. See your own work online. Submit your art to: "Rejected: the Salon des NEO Refusés"

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