Art Gallery of New South Wales
Australia, Sydney
2016
Through an analysis of visitor perceptions of the installation using muse, we describe the conditions by which the aura of a work of art proliferates in digital materialities through its association with the original. In doing so, evaluation builds on emerging models for evaluating effective museum experiences to argue that the authenticity vested in objects is not always solely located in their materiality. In the case of high-fidelity digital copies, authenticity is constructed through a combination of material concerns, digital mediation and viewer perceptions.