Today, the Museum of Modern Art announced that it will establish a new division of Media. This isn’t really a new division, rather it is a renaming of the Division of Film and Media. Quoted in the press release, Museum Director Glenn D. Lowry said, “The creation of a new department at MoMA devoted exclusively to media-based art acknowledges the growing importance of new technologies in contemporary artistic expression.”
The shift seems like an interesting turn of events to me, perhaps based on the tremendous turn of directors to digital video (David Lynch, in a NY Times interview, recently said that he’d never work with film again after producing in digital). But what of film?