Museums in a digital culture : how art and heritage become meaningful / edited by Chiel van den Akker and Susan Legêne.

"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 tha...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Akker, Chiel van den, 1974- (Editor), Legêne, Susan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Touched from a distance: the practice of affective browsing / Martijn Stevens
  • 2. Visual touch: ekphrasis and interactive art installations / Cecilia Lindhe
  • 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 / 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.