Museums in a Digital Culture.

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...

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Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Museums in a Digital Culture: How Art and Heritage Become Meaningful / Chiel van den Akker and Susan Legêne -- 1. Touched from a Distance: The Practice of Affective Browsing / Martijn Stevens -- 2. Visual Touch: Ekphrasis and Interactive Art Installations / Cecilia Lindhé -- 3. Breathing Art: Art as an Encompassing and Participatory Experience / Christina Grammatikopoulou -- 4. Curiosity and the Fate of Chronicles and Narratives / Chiel van den Akker -- 5. Networked Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in the Development of Virtual Museums / Anne Beaulieu and Sarah de Rijcke -- 6. Between History and Commemoration: The Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands / Serge ter Braake -- 7. From the Smithsonian's MacFarlane Collection to Inuvialuit Living History / Kate Hennessy -- Conclusion / Chiel van den Akker -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- List of Figures -- Figure 1 -- Philip James De Loutherbourg. The Vision of the White Horse 1798 -- Figure 2 -- Char Davies. Breathing and balance interface used in the performance of immersive virtual reality environments Osmose (1995) and Ephémère (1998) -- Figure 3 -- Char Davies. Forest Grid, Osmose (1995). Digital still captured in real-time through HMD (head-mounted display) during live performance of the immersive virtual environment Osmose -- Figure 4 -- George Khut. Cardiomorphologies v.2 (2005). Interactive installation -- Figure 5 -- Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. Mobile Feelings II (2003). Interface devices -- Figure 6 -- Anton Raphael Mengs (1772/73). The Triumph of History over Time: Allegory of the Museum Clementinum. Ceiling fresco in the Camera dei Papiri, Vatican Libarary -- Figure 7 -- Screenshot from the Digital Monument to the Jewish Community. 
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