Museum and Archive on the Move : Changing Cultural Institutions in the Digital Era

The digital revolution fundamentally changed how cultural heritage is created, documented, analyzed, and preserved. The book focuses on this transformation’s impact. How must museums and archives meet the challenges of digitally generated cultures and how does the digital revolution influence traditional object collection, research, and education? How do digital technologies and digital art and culture affect our interaction with images? Leading international experts from various disciplines break new ground. Pioneering interdisciplinary research results collected in this book are relevant to education, curators and archivists in the arts and culture sector and in the digital humanities. * New developments in museums and archives as a result of digital technologies * Indispensable to curators, archivists, art and media researchers * With contributions by Lev Manovich, Christiane Paul, Dieter Bogner, Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine et al. "The digital revolution fundamentally changed how cultural heritage is created, documented, analyzed, and preserved. The book focuses on this transformation's impact. How must museums and archives meet the challenges of digitally generated cultures and how does the digital revolution influence traditional object collection, research, and education? How do digital technologies and digital art and culture affect our interaction with images? Leading international experts from various disciplines break new ground. Pioneering interdisciplinary research results collected in this book are relevant to education, curators and archivists in the arts and culture sector and in the digital humanities."-- Provided by publisher Contents Museum and Archive on the Move Museums Museum of Art and Science The Digital Collection of the Rijksmuseum Museum in Motion? Museums, Interactivity, and the Tasks of “Exhibition Anthropology” The Museum, Public Space and the Internet Digital Art’s Complex Expression and Its Impact on Archives and Humanities Asia as a Methodology The Death of the African Archive and the Birth of the Museum Museum on Mars Archives Aesthetics and Anaesthetics From Archives to Collections Textualities, Materialities and Indeterminate Pasts Archives in Motion Revisiting the Network of “Les Immatériaux” The Phantoms of Multimedia Cultural Data “Weltregal” or the World on a Shelf Authors Illustration Credits Plates The digital revolution fundamentally changed how cultural heritage is created, documented, analyzed and preserved. The book focuses on this transformation's impact. How must museums and archives meet new challenges and what is the impact on the traditional object collection? Leading international experts from various disciplines break new ground