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RE_ACTION -- The Digital Archive Experience - Renegotiating the Competences of the Archive & the Museum in the 21st Century (Paperback)
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RE_ACTION -- The Digital Archive Experience - Renegotiating the Competences of the Archive & the Museum in the 21st Century (Paperback)
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This book investigates the ways in which new digital media may
enhance the experience of the art-archive. Taken as a whole, the
new media is a vital component of a "transdisciplinary" and
transformative field, a cultural landscape that is rapidly changing
the conditions and domains of the archive and the art museum. How,
then, should the functions and strengths of both the archive and
the museum be shaped to meet those cultural and technological
changes? When the Internet and World Wide Web became "the place to
be" commercially, museums followed suit and established their own
sites. These can be coarsely divided into two categories. First,
there are the purely utilitarian websites with information about
admission, hours of operation, directions, and the current show.
The other, a more ambitious type of website, tried to expand the
exhibition area of the museum into virtual reality. The idea may
sound great on paper, but seldom succeeds in reality. Such websites
often ignore the physical and social experience of a museum visit.
Curiously, when they are most successful, websites often compete
with the actual museum, possibly reducing the number of visitors
and diluting the effect of seeing art first hand. The book
discusses the challenges of the archive and the art museum in the
age of digital media. It is based upon documentation from a
research project, MAP Media Art Platform, that drew upon the
talents and collaboration of many institutions, artists,
programmers, art historians, designers, and others. The outcome of
the project was presented at the exhibition "TOTAL_ACTION Art in
the New Media Landscape" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Roskilde, Denmark, in October and November 2008.
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