Museums in a Digital Culture: How Art and Heritage Become Meaningful - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9089646612 ISBN 13: 9789089646613

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 theorize the sensory experience of art and heritage? What does information technology mean for the authority and ownership of heritage? "

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Dr. Susan L gene is Professor of Political History at the Department of History at the VU University Amsterdam. Her research focuses on processes of inclusion and exclusion in colonial and postcolonial nation state formation.|Dr. Chiel van den Akker is lecturer Historical Theory at the Department of History at the VU University Amsterdam. His research focuses on narrative theory and interpretation in relation to (online) museums, art, and history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9089646612
• ISBN 13: 9789089646613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 142
• Editor: Legêne, Akker Chiel Van Den