MUSE7007 Digital Media for Collecting, Archiving and Exhibiting
Semester 1, Thursdays,14:00-16:50
Quick overview
​​The course provides a basic introduction to how digital technologies are used for the diverse tasks of museums.
Who it's for
This course is part of the Curation concentration but would be equally of interest to those wishing to pursue careers as registrars, collection managers, or conservators. For those interested in conservation, a companion course taught in the spring is MUSE7023 Contemporary Art and Time-Based Media: Problems and Methods of Display and Iteration.
Description
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This course concerns registration and inventory through collection / museum management systems as it is done in museum informatics and for building digital collections. Furthermore, information is given on long-term archiving of digital and digitised data and the different media used by artists for their works of art (Video Art, Media Art etc.). Another part of the course deals with the conception, design and production of interactive media (offline and online) for the field of education and in exhibitions. Here, a review of important multimedia applications (CD-ROMs as predecessors of apps as well as interactive stories for webdocs), gesture-based computing, immersive spaces and augmented/virtual reality will be presented.
Recomended Readings
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Archive2020: Sustainable Archiving of Born-digital Cultural Content, by Annet Dekker, 2010. http://aaaan.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/archiving-the-digital.pdf
T. Caianiello & J. Giebeler: “Model for the Registration of Interactive Installations”, in: Media Art Installations.Preservation and Presentation, ed. by Renate Buschmann, Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2013.
E. Deena and W. Glen: “Managing Contemporary Art Documentation in Museums and Special Collections”, in: Art Documentation Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America Vol. 36. no. 2. (Fall 2017), 2017.
H. Kraemer: "Art is redeemed, mystery is gone: the documentation of contemporary art," in: Theorising Futures for the Past. Cultural Heritage and Digital Media, ed. by Sarah Kenderdine and Fiona Cameron, Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2007, 193-222.
H. Kraemer: "Interdependence and Consequence: En Route toward a Grammar of Hypermedia Communication Design," in: Imagery in the 21st Century, ed. by Oliver Grau, Thomas Veigl, Cambridge MA: MIT Press 2011, 289-312.
H. Kraemer: "What is less or more than a touch? Multimedia Classics – Hypermedia Hermeneutics," in: Curator, Vol 57, No. 1, January 2014, 119-136.
P. Samis; M. Michaelson (2017): Creating the visitor-centered Museum. New York: Routledge.
B. Serexhe (Ed.): Preservation of Digital Art: Theory and Practice. The project digital art conservation, Vienna: Ambra, 2013.