Reducing Inequality for Artists: SDG 10 and the Applied Philosophy of Art

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

9-2024

Abstract

The presentation focuses on Digital Art Museums, the Philosophy of Art, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10. The presentation was filmed in the metaverse in a space created by Loop Art Critique. This video belongs to a continued collaboration between faculty from Lynn University and Loop Art Critique.

The presentation asks two questions. (1) Why is it valuable for art museums to support SDG 10 – the tenth sustainable development goal articulated by the United Nations – which calls for reducing inequality within and among countries? (2) How can museums which showcase digital artworks effectively support SDG 10? The presentation focuses on the Lynn University NFT Museum as a case study.

The Lynn University NFT Museum helps artists, including those from marginalized communities, build their works’ audiences and expand the influence of their work. Because the museum focuses on digital artworks, it can display work by artists in developing countries without securing the budget necessary to ship, insure, and display traditional paintings and sculptures. Because the museum partners with a local office park and hotel, and displays artworks on monitors in both sites, the museum brings the work of artists from marginalized communities to audiences who might otherwise rarely visit traditional museums or view artworks online.

What is the value of art and of art museums supporting SDG 10 in particular? James O. Young (2001) argues that illustrative artworks often provide audiences with novel perspectives about the people and events they represent. When audiences determine that these perspectives are right, the audience’s own perspectives might change. John Dewey (2008) implies that beholding artworks sometimes leads audiences to experience personal growth that positively affects their everyday lives (cf. Stroud, 2014; Leddy & Puolakka, 2023). Artworks by artists in marginalized groups might present perspectives to their audiences that they would otherwise never consider. If large audiences consider these perspectives, and experience personal growth as a result of viewing these artworks, they may come to better collaborate with others, in day-to-day life, to make the world a better place.

Conference/Symposium

Seventeenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum: Intersectionality: Museums, Inclusion, and SDGs

City/State

MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria + Online

Department

College of Communication and Design

Streaming Media

Comments

Dean Cesar Santalo and Dr. Andrew Corsa co-created an asynchronous, video presentation for an upcoming conference. It is a presentation for the Seventeenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, which will take place from September 13-15, 2024. Dean Santalo and Dr. Corsa will not attend the conference in-person, but will attend parts of it virtually, and submitted a video-presentation to it.

This video belongs to a continued collaboration between faculty from Lynn University and Loop Art Critique.

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