ABSTRACT
The impact that digital technologies are having on fine art museums is both complex and profound. Everything, from the creation of art to its circulation and reception is being transformed by digital technologies. A whole generation of new media artists has emerged making work ranging from installation art to internet art, whose very existence is dependent on new media. One such artist is Fiona Rae, who since the 1990 has used computer software to work out her abstract painterly applications before projecting them onto a canvas to trace. Rae describes her painting as a series of edits. Existing copyright law presents hurdles to art museums as well as to individuals. Despite owning a work of art, a United Kingdom museum is required to seek additional clearance from the artist or artist's estate when that artist is alive or has been dead for less than seventy years, as well as from the photographer of the work.
