January 2012 archives
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January 31, 2012 by kate
High-Resolution Object Photography
Interesting photography of museum collections…. http://synthescape.com/media/umista/Archive
January 31, 2012 by kate
University of Virginia iPad App
Here is a creative use of iPad affordances–particularly its tangibile functions––for viewing museum objects… let’s look at it today in the seminar.Archive
January 31, 2012 by jeremy
Must-Have Narratives!: The Museum and Proprietary Cultural Heritage…
This blog post is based on: Malpas, J. 2008. “Cultural Heritage in the Age of New Media” in New Heritage.New York: Routledge, pp. 13-26. Srinivasan, R. et al. 2010. “Diverse Knowledges and Contact Zones within the Digital Museum. Science, Technology & Human Values 35(5), pp. 735-768 (pp. 1-36 on the PDF). Using Walter Benjamin’s authorial […]Archive
January 30, 2012 by diana
Objects in the Age of their Digital Reproducibility
Walter Benjamin’s influential essay on the work of art in the age of “its technological reproducibility”, argues that, while art has always been theoretically reproducible, the “here and now of the original”, its “authenticity”, its “aura” and its “unique existence”, are obliterated with “mechanical reproduction”. Yet Benjamin also notes that mechanical reproduction enables new kinds […]Archive
January 28, 2012 by kristin
In Time Vancouver IPhone App
I found a neat iphone app that gives catchy news headlines from Vancouver’s history called In Time. Its a simple interface (just a list of headlines) that leads into short articles that are fun reading with photos of ‘then and now’ that give a little context within the city. I’ve been addicted to it for […]Archive
January 26, 2012 by bardia
Using Story Telling Release Cultural Anxiety
I found these set of documentaries in CBC very interesting, and related to the topic of following paper : ” Indigenous Exhibition in the Age of Cultural Property”: 8thfire : http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/8thfire/ The same issues discussed in paper such as Trust, Power factors in negotiations with first nation communities have been outlined and depicted using media […]Archive
January 24, 2012 by kristin
An Experiential Thought with a Touch of Dance
Because I don’t have the Critical Theory background that is supporting a lot of the discussion here, I’m focusing on my own experiential knowledge: Though we are dealing with databases of objects (Manovich), and hence the stories, memories and experiences with these objects that reflect cultural lives (Clifford), we also engage in the political debate […]Archive
January 24, 2012 by kate
Indigenous Exhibition in the Age of Cultural Property
I was pretty surprised (and then of course not surprised) to see this story about yet another hipster appropriation of Aboriginal material culture. The Inuvialuit project I will discuss in class today aims to digitally recontextualize Inuvialuit material culture currently in storage at the Smithsonian… including snow goggles. As museums digitize and circulate Aboriginal cultural […]Archive
January 24, 2012 by tyler