Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse

'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.' (Back cover)

Includes contributor biographies, references and index.

Access level

Onsite

publisher

The MIT Press (Cambridge, United States)

editor

Fiona CAMERON,

Sarah KENDERDINE

Location code

REF.CAF2

Language

English

Keywords

digital art, cultural studies, museum studies

Publication/Creation date

2010

No of pages

465

ISBN / ISSN

9780262514118

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction - Fiona CAMERON, Sarah KENDERDINE

I Replicants / Object Morphologies

1 Rise and Fall of the Post-Photographic Museum: Technology and the Transformation of Art - Peter WALSH

2 The Materiality of Virtual Technologies: A New Approach to Thinking about the Impact of Multimedia in Museums - Andrea WITCOMB

3 Beyond the Cult of the Replicant - Museums and Historical Digital Objects: Traditional Concerns, New Discourse - Fiona CAMERON

4 Te Ahu Hiko: Digital Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Objects, People, and Environments - Deidre BROWN

5 Redefining Digital Art: Disrupting Borders - Beryl GRAHAM

6 Online Activity and Offline Community: Cultural Institutions and New Media Art - Sarah COOK

II Knowledge Systems and Management: Shifting Paradigms and Models

7 A Crisis of Authority: New Lamps for Old - Susan HAZAN

8 Digital Cultural Communication: Audience and Remediation - Angelina RUSSO, Jerry WATKINS

9 Digital Knowledgescapes: Cultural, Theoretical, Practical, and Usage Issues Facing Museum Collection Databases in a Digital Epoch - Fiona CAMERON, Helena ROBINSON

10 Art Is Redeemed, Mystery Is Gone: The Documentation of Contemporary Art - Harald KRAEMER

11 Cultural Information Standards - Political Territory and Rich Rewards - Ingrid MASON

12 Finding a Future for Digital Cultural Heritage Resources Using Contextual Information Frameworks - Gavan McCARTHY

13 Engaged Dialogism in Virtual Space: An Exploration of Research Strategies for Virtual Museums - Suhas DESHPANDE, Kati GEBER, Corey TIMPSON

14 Localized, Personalized, and Constructivist: A Space for Online Museum Learning - Nadia ARBACH, Ross PARRY

III Cultural Heritage and Virtual Systems

15 Speaking in Rama: Panoramic Vision in Cultural Heritage Visualization - Sarah KENDERDINE

16 Dialing Up the Past - Erik CHAMPION, Bharat DAVE

17 The Morphology of Space in Virtual Heritage - Bernadette FLYNN

18 Toward Tangible Virtualities: Tangialities - Slavko MILEKIC

19 Ecological Cybernetics, Virtual Reality, and Virtual Heritage - Maurizio FORTE

20 Geo-Storytelling: A Living Archive of Spatial Culture - Marc TUTERS, Jim COOLEY, Scot Thrane REFSLAND

21 Urban Heritage Representations in Hyperdocuments - José Ripper KÓS, Rodrigo PARAIZO

22 Automatic Archaeology: Bridging the Gap between Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Archaeology - Juan Antonio BARCELÓ

Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse

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