Reconfiguring the Museum: The Politics of Digital Display - Couverture rigide

Herman, Ana-Maria

 
9780228014256: Reconfiguring the Museum: The Politics of Digital Display
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ISBN 10 : 0228014255 ISBN 13 : 9780228014256
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Digital media technologies have provided an occasion not only for novel ways to display and exhibit collections, but also for new politics to arise as museums and urban settings change. While some believe these changes are driven by humans, others see digital media technologies at the heart of these changes.

Reconfiguring the Museum offers a third explanation that considers both the social and technical together and thereby captures the experimental nature of introducing novel digital media technologies to museums, and the uncertainty, messiness, contingency, and complexity involved. In this sociotechnical case study of a novel augmented reality app – first designed to exhibit collections from the Museum of London across the sprawling capital city, and later remade for the McCord Museum to display collections throughout Montreal – Ana-Maria Herman reveals how the app introduced unexpected new relations between the museums, their collections, advertising agencies, sponsors, technology companies, corporations, urban spaces, and end users. She shows how museum practices related to curating, designing, building, visiting, and modifying exhibitions were transformed, and how, in such unsettled arrangements, what we think of as old cultural politics can unexpectedly re-emerge, while new digital politics – related to big data, surveillance, and automated processes – may not necessarily materialize.

A detailed account of emerging actors and practices involved in making digital exhibitions, Reconfiguring the Museum offers practical considerations for museum, culture, and heritage practitioners charged with creating digital displays and accounting for their success or failure.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ana-Maria Herman is senior lecturer of media and communication at Swansea University.

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Éditeur
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0228014255
ISBN 13 
9780228014256
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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