Thanks to the sponsorship of Apple Europe, starting in 1994, the MIDECIANT of Cuenca added a laboratory for the production of electronic and digital arts to its artistic electrography workshop. Invited artists and creators began to develop pieces of infographics, interactive multimedia, digital video post-production, net art, software art, computer animation (2D and 3D) or interactive installations, among others.
This collection, previously called Electronic Art, began with the intention of compiling in an online application all this production that was developed between 1994 and 2010, in the spaces of the MIDECIANT in Cuenca. It was a commission from those responsible for the Media Library of the Fundació la Caixa in Barcelona, which proposed the compilation of all those significant MIDECIANT productions over the years that have passed since the first production (Rent a Body by Paco Cao, an interactive multimedia executed in Director v.2.0), in 1994, and the last -at the time of its construction- (Incorrectas, by Ana Solano, a synthetic 3D animation mixed with digital video), completed in 2006. Since then, some significant productions can be added, such as the video-installation Richter vs Mercali by the Chilean artist Daniel Reyes (2008-09), or the 3D video-animation piece Devir / To Become by the Portuguese artist Marta Alvim (2010).
It's not strictly a “permanent collection”, since MIDECIANT is not the “owner” of said works. In any case, the museum has the rights of dissemination - specific and temporary - by its authors, in order to disseminate all these multimedia art productions from the artistic institution.