Museums in a digital culture : how art and heritage become meaningful / edited by Chiel van den Akker and Susan Legêne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akker, Chiel van den, 1974- editor.

Legêne, Susan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in museums.

Museums--Information technology.

Museums.

Physical Description:

141 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Information and communication technology allows new forms of engaging with art and artifacts. We touch and are touched by (installation) art and artifacts, and intuitively and affectively browse and navigate heritage collections online. Databases and interfaces online and onsite mediate our access to and interpretation of art and artifacts. Information technology is therefore a transformative cultural phenomenon, providing new sensory experiences and affective responses, and new knowledge infrastructures to access and interpret the objects belonging to our cultural heritage. This collection of essays invites readers to think along with the authors about the cultural meaning of information and communication technology. How is the sensory experience of art and heritage to be theorized? What does information technology mean for the authority, appropriation and ownership of heritage? And how does it affect the acquisition and production of knowledge? These are some of the questions addressed in this interdisciplinary take on art and heritage in a digital culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Touched from a Distance: The Practice of Affective Browsing / Martijn Stevens Stevens, Martijn 13

2 Visual Touch: Ekphrasis and Interactive Art Installations / Cecilia Lindhé Lindhé, Cecilia 13

3 Breathing Art: Art as an Encompassing and Participatory Experience / Christina Grammatikopoulou Grammatikopoulou, Christina 41

4 Curiosity and the Fate of Chronicles and Narratives / Chiel van den Akker Akker, Chiel van den 57

5 Networked Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in the Development of Virtual Museums / Anne Beaulieu Beaulieu, Anne, Sarah de Rijcke Rijcke, Sarah de 75

6 Between History and Commemoration: The Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands / Serge ter Braake Braake, Serge ter 93

7 From the Smithsonian's MacFarlane Collection to Inuvialuit Living History / Kate Hennessy Hennessy, Kate 109.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789089646613

9089646612

OCLC:

949751294

Publisher Number:

99969737590