Museums in a Digital Culture
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9789048524808; 9789089646613
Subjects: Graphical & digital media applications; Electronic, holographic & video art; The arts: general issues
Description: 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?
Notes: English.