The Cha collection is the most comprehensive of BAM's collections at the CIAO site. If you're not in the museum when the artist performs her piece, you miss it. However, if there's a video of that performance, we can put it online along with the artist's comments, and people can tap in from across the country and learn about the artist and the work.
CIAO links significant collections of conceptual art for scholars, students, and the public.
The other six institutions with CIAO collections are Dartmouth College's Hood Museum, Franklin Furnace, Getty Research Institute, the University of Iowa Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Walker Art Center. Right now we have more than 500 records, essays and other textual parts of the Theresa Cha collection online. This summer we'll add the images, video and sound files. Early next month, representatives from each of the seven CIAO museums will meet on campus to develop strategies for fundraising and continued development of the linked collections. The goal is to have dozens of collections at the CIAO site eventually, Rinehart said.