January 2012 archives
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January 17, 2012 by diana
(In)finite possibilities of polysemy in the digital age . . .
“The larger task is to bridge the gap between documentation practices and information needs that require the inclusion of a modernist, post-structural, and postmodernist paradigms, and the particular social and cultural ideas posited by a diverse community of users. They need to provide authoritative information but also acknowledge the fragmentary, arbitrary, and plural nature of […]Archive
January 17, 2012 by kristin
Text Beyond Description with a Connection to the Unassailable Voice
One place of thought is in Cameron’s quote on pg. 87 ‘Curators need to consider the writing of text in the context of constructivist approaches to learning and to engage users in the cycle of knowledge making’ (2005). Though this comment refers to the textual documentation of objects and collections, it seems relevant to explore […]Archive
January 17, 2012 by jeremy
Replicating “Liveness”…
Marc Pachter (2002). Ross Parry [Ed.] Museums in a Digital Age.Ch. 32. Pp. 232-235. London: Routledge, 2010. Pachter appeals to sentimentality to attempt to elevate the transcendence of the “authentic” Art-Masterpiece beyond that of a perfectly replicated copy (though nanotech-assembly). However, this argument makes authenticity seem superficial and little more than a generation’s mourning for the […]Archive
January 16, 2012 by jeremy
A Most Assailable Voice
Jeremy O. Turner’s personal commentary on: Peter Walsh (1997). The Web and the Unassailable Voice. Ch.24. Pp. 229-236. (ch. 24, MDA). Ross Parry [Ed.] Museums in a Digital Age.London: Routledge, 2010. Walsh basically argues that the generic narrator’s voice for museum audio tours represents dubious intentions through its often “patronizing” and institutional tone of voice […]Archive
January 13, 2012 by kate