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January 24, 2012 by tyler

The Difficulties of Hybridity

James Clifford’s “Museums as Contact Zones” provides fantastic contextualization of the museum:  caught up in ongoing and active process of “imagining” culture (to borrow from Benedict Anderson) and all the messy issues that go along with such a process.  Two of the most salient points from this reading for me are the ways in which […]

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January 22, 2012 by kate

Seminar and Tour at Museum of Vancouver

For our second seminar of the semester, we visited the Museum of Vancouver for a discussion and tour of the Neon Vancouver | Ugly Vancouver exhibit, with Curator Joan Seidl, and Curator of Public Engagement and Dialogue, Hanna Cho, who is leading the production of the museum’s virtual exhibit and mobile walking tour ‘The Visible City: […]

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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 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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]