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February 11, 2012 by jeremy

Close Encounters of a Virtual Kind

  Click here to watch the video This post deals with Reading Week’s assigned readings which include: Andrea Bandelli.  Virtual Spaces and Museums.  Originally in Journal of Museum Education, Vol. 24, 1999. p. 20.  Muller, Klaus.  Museums and Virtuality. Ch. 29.  Originally in Curator. Vol. 45, no. 1, 2002, pp. 21-33.  Neil Silberman. Chasing the […]

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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 […]

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January 23, 2012 by jeremy

21st Century Nationhood and the Museum…

This response is based on: Benedict Anderson. Introduction In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, revised edition (London: Verso. 1991); Census, Map, Museum In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, revised edition (London: Verso. 1991), pp. 163-85. Suitable for a document made from the end-times of Communism’s […]

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January 17, 2012 by tyler

Fostering Dialogue and Discussion

Peter Walsh’s “The Web and the Unassailable Voice” presents an interesting forward-looking view of the web, considering it was written close to 15 years ago.  Walsh describes a plan to encourage discussion about a newly acquired Ashanti seat for the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College across the campus network. “Through the network, […]

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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 […]