Museums in a Digital Culture

How Art and Heritage Become Meaningful
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-18320-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and assemblages of artworks, which we intuitively browse and navigate in a way that wasn't possible until very recently. This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology that makes these new engagements possible, asking questions like: How should we theorise the sensory experience of art and heritage? What does information technology mean for the authority and ownership of heritage?

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Akker, Chiel van den

Legêne

Legene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Touched from a Distance, Visual Touch, Breathing Art, Curiosity and the Fate of Chronicles and Narratives, Networked Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in the Development of Virtual Museums, Between History and Commemoration, From the Smithsonian's MacFarlane Collection to 'Inuvialuit Living History', Conclusion, Notes on Contributors, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Susan Lêgene is Professor of Political History at the Department of History at the VU University Amsterdam. Her research focuses on processes of inclusion and exclusion in colonial and postcolonial nation state formation. Dr. Chiel van den Akker is lecturer Historical Theory at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of Elementaire Deeltjes - Geschiedenis (Athenaeum 2019) and The Exemplifying Past. A Philosophy of History (Amsterdam University Press 2018).