Research Catalog

Title

Theorizing digital cultural heritage : a critical discourse / edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Cameron, Fiona
• Kenderdine, Sarah

Description

x, 465 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

In Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage, experts offer a critical and theoretical appraisal of the uses of digital media by cultural heritage institutions. Previous discussions of cultural heritage and digital technology have left the subject largely unmapped in terms of critical theory; the essays in this volume offer this long-missing perspective on the challenges of using digital media in the research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage. The contributors - scholars and practitioners from a range of relevant disciplines - ground theory in practice, considering how digital technology might be used to transform institutional cultures, methods, and relationships with audiences. The contributors examine the relationship between material and digital objects in collections of art and indigenous artifacts; the implications of digital technology for knowledge creation, documentation, and the concept of authority; and the possibilities for "virtual cultural heritage"--The preservation and interpretation of cultural and natural heritage through real-time, immersive, and interactive techniques.

Series Statement

Media in transition

Uniform Title

Media in transition

Subject

• Cultural property > Digitization
• New media art
• Computer art
• Library materials > Digitization
• Virtual museums
• Museums > Collection management
• Biens culturels > Numérisation
• Documentation de bibliothèque > Numérisation
• Musées > Gestion des collections
• Art numérique
• Musées virtuels
• Bibliotheksbestand
• Digitalisierung
• Kulturerbe
• Museumsbestand
• Kulturerbe
• Digitalisierung
• Bibliotheksbestand
• Museumsbestand

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rise and fall of the post-photographic museum : technology and the transformation of art / Peter Walsh -- Materiality of virtual technologies : a new approach to thinking about the impact of multimedia in museums / Andrea Witcomb -- Beyond the cult of the replicant -- museums and historical digital objects : traditional concerns, new discourses / Fiona Cameron -- Te Ahu Hiko : cultural heritage and indigenous objects, people, and environments / Deidre Brown -- Redefining digital art : disrupting borders / Beryl Graham -- Online activity and offlline community : cultural institutions and new media art / Sarah Cook -- Crisis of authority : new lamps for old / Susan Hazan -- Digital cultural communication : audience and remediation / Angelina Russo and Jerry Watkins -- Digital knowledgescapes : cultural, theoretical, practical and usage issues facing museum collection databases in a digital epoch / Fiona Cameron and Helena Robinson -- Art is redeemed, mystery is gone : the documentation of contemporary art / Harald Kraemer -- Cultural information standards -- political territory and rich rewards / Ingrid Mason -- Finding a future for digital cultural heritage resources using contextual information frameworks / Gavan McCarthy -- Engaged dialogism in virtual space : an exploration of research strategies for virtual museums / Suhas Deshpande, Kati Geber, and Corey Timpson -- Localized, personalized, and constructivist : a space for online museum learning / Ross Parry and Nadia Arbach -- Speaking in Rama : panoramic vision in cultural heritage visualization / Sarah Kenderdine -- Dialing up the past / Erik Champion and Bharat Dave -- Morphology of space in virtual heritage / Bernadette Flynn -- Toward tangible virtualities : tangialities / Slavko Milekic -- Ecological cybernetics, virtual reality, and virtual heritage / Maurizio Forte -- Geo-storytelling : a living archive of spatial culture / Scot T. Refsland, Marc Tuters, and Jim Cooley -- Urban heritage representations in hyperdocuments / Rodrigo Paraizo and José Ripper Kós -- Automatic archaeology : bridging the gap between virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and archaeology / Juan Antonio Barceló.

ISBN

• 0262033534
• 9780262033534
• 9780262514118
• 0262514117

LCCN

^^2005056754

OCLC

• 62888361
• SCSB-10488572

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library