موسسه انتشارات دانشگاه تهران نشریه هنرهای زیبا: هنرهای تجسمی 2228-6039 31 3 2026 09 23 Exploring the Evolution of Contemporary Museum Interactions through Convergence with Technology, with an Emphasis on New Contemporary Arts تحول تعاملات موزه‌های معاصر از طریق همگرایی با فناوری با تأکید بر هنرهای معاصر 21 35 107379 10.22059/jfava.2026.399519.667535 FA سید محمود میرعزیزی دکتری هنرهای تجسمی، گروه مطالعات عالی هنر، دانشکده هنرهای تجسمی، دانشکدگان هنرهای زیبا، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران. 0009-0008-0995-1298 مصطفی گودرزی استاد گروه مطالعات عالی هنر، دانشکده هنرهای تجسمی، دانشکدگان هنرهای زیبا، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران. 0000-0002-4076-3147 Journal Article 2025 07 30 Some of Contemporary museums are undergoing a profound transformation by integrating emerging digital technologies to enhance visitor experiences, preserve cultural heritage, and redefine their social roles. This convergence represents a fundamental change in how museums conceptualize, present, and interpret contemporary art. However, despite growing scholarly interest in digital museology, comprehensive research remains limited on how multiple technologies—particularly robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and artificial intelligence (AI)—simultaneously affect museum practices and the emergence of new forms of contemporary art. This study addresses that gap through three questions: 1) How have these technologies transformed the exhibition and interpretation of contemporary art? 2) How has the convergence of technology and art reshaped the audience’s role in artistic experience? 3) What are the applications, benefits, and challenges of each technology in contemporary museums? This applied-developmental, descriptive-analytical research adopted a qualitative approach. Data were collected through a comprehensive literature review. The search strategy included Google Scholar, specialized museum journals, institutional reports, and related scholarly sources. The findings indicate that AI-based personalization algorithms enable museums to tailor content and visitor journeys according to individual preferences, prior knowledge, and behavioral patterns. Virtual reality and augmented reality facilitate immersive, multilayered interpretation and allow visitors to experience artworks beyond physical constraints, including entering a painter’s perspective or visualizing creative processes. Robotics, particularly interactive guide robots, introduces new forms of physical interaction, especially in performance and movement-based art. Collectively, these technologies transform audiences from passive observers into active participants, co-creators of meaning, and, in some contexts, temporary artists. IoT-based intelligent monitoring systems equipped with distributed sensor networks continuously track temperature, humidity, light levels, and airborne pollutants, providing real-time alerts for preventive conservation. Such systems help protect collections from biological threats, including insects and fungi, as well as chemical degradation. Advanced AI security systems further integrate facial recognition, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics to safeguard collections against theft, vandalism, and natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. In museum education, emerging technologies have transformed teaching by enabling experiential, situated, and multimedia learning beyond traditional educational models. VR supports immersive programs in which learners explore reconstructed historical contexts and artistic processes from first-person perspectives. AR overlays supplementary information, including artists’ biographies, technical details, and critical interpretations, directly onto displayed works through mobile devices or smart glasses. Remote-visit technologies, accelerated by pandemic-era adaptations, allow global audiences to access collections despite geographic limitations, thereby expanding inclusive cultural engagement. Most importantly, digital technologies have become generative forces in contemporary art rather than merely presentation tools. AI algorithms can generate artworks, collaborate with human artists, and transform existing themes. VR and AR also enable virtual reconstructions of damaged or destroyed works, including self-destructive art associated with Gustav Metzger, thereby reviving ephemeral artistic forms in immersive environments. Comparative analysis shows that AI is the only technology with an active presence across all major areas of museology—audience engagement, conservation, education, access, and creativity—and across diverse branches of contemporary art, from performance to self-destructive practices. The study concludes that each technology offers distinct value: robotics enables physical interaction; IoT supports intelligent monitoring and sustainable management; AR enriches contextual and immersive experiences; VR expands experiential interpretation; and AI provides integrated intelligence capable of personalizing, predicting, and creating. Their convergence is not merely additive but synergistic. AI combined with IoT enables predictive preservation, AI with VR produces responsive immersive environments, and robotics with AR facilitates interactive physical–virtual arrangements. Together, these technologies support multilayered interpretation, contextual enrichment, and the reconstruction of damaged or ephemeral works. The audience’s role has consequently shifted from passive receiver to active agent, participant in meaning-making, and co-creator of artistic significance. Nevertheless, important challenges remain, including implementation costs, the digital divide, technological obsolescence, privacy and ethical concerns, and the risk that authentic museum experiences may be reduced to entertainment. This research contributes a comprehensive framework for understanding technology-driven changes in museology and their implications for contemporary art production, exhibition, curation, and reception. Future research should examine longitudinal effects on visitor behavior, institutional readiness, ethical governance, accessibility, and changing patterns of authorship. Comparative studies across cultural contexts may further identify sustainable models for technologically mediated artistic engagement and participation. These developments also challenge established assumptions about curatorial authority, authenticity, and the boundaries between artwork, interface, and institutional infrastructure. As digital systems increasingly mediate encounters with collections, curators must consider how algorithmic selection, personalization, and automated interpretation influence what visitors see and how they understand it. Consequently, technological integration should not be evaluated solely in terms of efficiency or novelty, but also according to its cultural, ethical, and aesthetic implications. Museums need interdisciplinary strategies that bring together curators, artists, conservators, educators, designers, and technology specialists. Such collaboration can ensure that innovation remains aligned with institutional missions while preserving critical reflection, accessibility, and meaningful human participation across museum contexts. همگرایی فناوری‌های دیجیتال با موزه‌های معاصر، تحولی بنیادین در شیوه‌های نمایش، تفسیر و تعامل با هنرهای معاصر پدید آورده است و این نهادها برای حفظ جایگاه خود و پاسخگویی به انتظارات جدید مخاطبان، ناگزیر از درک عمیق این تحولات و انطباق با آن‌ها هستند. پژوهش پیش‌رو با هدف تحلیل چیستی و چگونگی تأثیر فناوری‌های نوین همچون ربات‌ها، اینترنت‌اشیا (IoT)، واقعیت مجازی VR))، واقعیت افزوده AR)) و هوش مصنوعی (AI) بر تعاملات موزه‌ای و دگرگونی هنر معاصر، به این پرسش اساسی می‌پردازد که این فناوری‌ها چگونه شیوه‌های نمایش و تفسیر آثار را متحول ساخته‌اند و در این میان، نقش مخاطب به‌عنوان کنشگری فعال در فرآیند تجربه هنری چه دگردیسی یافته است. این پژوهش از نظر هدف کاربردی و از نظر ماهیت توصیفی-تحلیلی است که با روش کیفی و با بهره‌گیری از راهبرد تحلیل محتوا انجام شده و داده‌های آن از طریق مطالعه کتابخانه‌ای و مرور اسناد و منابع جمع‌آوری شده است. یافته‌ها و نتایج نشان می‌دهد که بهره‌گیری از این فناوری‌ها به تحولاتی چندوجهی در حوزه‌های شخصی‌سازی تجربه و افزایش مشارکت مخاطب، حفاظت هوشمندانه و پیشگیری از آسیب آثار، یادگیری تجربی و آموزش موقعیت‌محور چندرسانه‌ای، امکان بازدید از راه دور، خلاقیت در خلق شیوه‌های نوآورانه در ارائه و نیز بازسازی آثار تخریب‌شده انجامیده است. https://jfava.ut.ac.ir/article_107379_31664c64a7768720db09d83725d984d5.pdf