Of Museums and Digital Culture: A landscape view

A book on Museums and Digital Culture , edited by the two authors of this paper, is planned for publication in 2019. The book is structured in ten parts, typically with around three contributed chapters in each part. This paper will survey each of these areas to provide a landscape view of the overall topic, together with some personal conclusions and views on future directions by the authors. What distinguishes this museum book from others, is its focus on digital culture and art, digital behaviour, and the interaction of real and virtual life, and how this increasingly impacts museums as they move into the future. We trace the development of digital culture from its foundations in the 1940s with the work of Shannon, inventor of information theory and Turing, father of computer science, to present. A key concept is to bring diverse perspectives and voices on the 21st century museum, from inside and beyond the museum walls, of artists, academics, and professionals, as museums transform into the digital future.

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Tula Giannini: http://mysite.pratt.edu/~giannini/

Jonathan P. Bowen: http://www.jpbowen.com

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 172-179

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[0001]Professor of Information

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Pratt Institute

New York, USA

[0002]Professor of Computing

School of Engineering

London South Bank University

London, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.34

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] I. BeazleyJ. P. BowenS. McDaidA. H.-Y. Liu 2010 Dulwich OnView: An art museum-based virtual community generated by the local community, A. SealJ. P. BowenK. Ng (eds.) EVA London 2010 Conference Proceedings BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing 79 86 http://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/36053

[2] A. BordaJ. P. Bowen 2017 Smart cities and cultural heritage – A review of developments and future opportunities Bowen et al. 2017 9 18 DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.2

[3] J. P. BowenJ. BennettJ. Johnson 1998 Virtual visits to virtual museums In MW98: Museums and the Web 1998 Toronto, Canada 22–25 April Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw98/papers/bowen/bowen_paper.html

[4] J. P. BowenJ. BennettA. BordaA. HodgesS. Filippini-FantoniA. Beler 2005 The development of science museum websites: Case studies L. T. W. HinR. Subramaniam (eds.) E-learning and Virtual Science Centers, Section 3: Case Studies, Chapter XVIII366 392 Idea Group Publishing

[5] J. P. BowenG. DiproseN. Lambert (eds.) 2016 EVA London 2016: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) http://www.bcs.org/ewic/eva2016

[6] J. P. BowenG. DiproseN. Lambert (eds.) 2017 EVA London 2017: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) http://www.bcs.org/ewic/eva2017

[7] J. P. BowenT. Giannini 2014 Digitalism: The new realism? K. NgJ. P. BowenS. McDaid (eds.) EVA London 2014: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, eWiC 324 331 DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2014.38

[8] J. P. BowenT. Giannini 2015 Galois connections: Mathematics, art, and archives K. NgJ. P. BowenN. Lambert (eds.) EVA London 2015: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing 176 183 DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2015.18

[9] J. P. BowenT. Giannini 2016 From analogue to digital in literature and art Bowen et al. 2016 1 4 DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.1

[10] J. P. BowenS. KeeneK. Ng (eds.) 2013 Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture Springer, Series on Cultural Computing

[11] S. S. Buatista 2013 Museums in a Digital Culture AltaMira Press

[12] S. Cascone 2018 Artist Emma Sulkowicz wore asterisks—and little else—to protest Chuck Close at the Met (and Picasso at MoMA) Artnet News 2 February http://news.artnet.com/art-world/emma-sulkowicz-performance-protest-1214429

[13] Christie’s 2015 Modigliani's Nu couché (Reclining Nude) leads a night of records in New York Christie's Daily 10 November http://www.christies.com/features/Modigliani-Nu-couche-Reclining-Nude-leads-a-night-of-records-in-New-York-6782-3.aspx

[14] S. Filippini-FantoniJ. P. Bowen 2008 Mobile multimedia: Reflections from ten years of practice. In Tallon and Walker 2008 79 96

[15] C. Gannis 2017 The augmented selfie Bowen et al. 2017 319 326 DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.66

[16] T. GianniniJ. P. Bowen 2014 The Brooklyn Visual Heritage website: Brooklyn's museums and libraries collaborate for Project CHART In MW2014: Museums and the Web 2014, Baltimore, USA, 2–5 April. http://mw2014.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-brooklyn-visual-heritage-website/

[17] T. GianniniJ. P. Bowen 2015 A New York Museums and Pratt partnership: Building Web collections and preparing museum professionals for the digital world In MW2015: Museums and the Web 2015 Chicago, USA 8–11 April http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/a-new-york-museums-and-pratt-partnership-building-web-collections-and-preparing-museum-professionals-for-the-digital-world/

[18] T. GianniniJ. P. Bowen 2016 Curating digital life and culture: Art and information Bowen et al. 2016 237 244 DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.46

[19] T. GianniniJ. P. Bowen 2017 Life in Code and Digits: When Shannon met Turing Bowen et al. 2017 51 58 DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.9

[20] T. GianniniJ. P. Bowen (eds.) 2019 Museums and Digital Culture: New perspectives and research Series on Cultural Computing. Springer. (To appear.)

[21] E. Kinsella 2017 The Met says ‘suggestive' Balthus painting will stay after petition for its removal is signed by thousands Artnet News, 5 December. http://news.artnet.com/art-world/met-museum-responds-to-petition-calling-for-removal-of-balthus-painting-1169105

[22] S. LegêneC. van den Akker 2017 Museums in a Digital Culture: How art and heritage become meaningful Amsterdam University Press

[23] P. Libbey 2017 Met defends suggestive painting of girl after petition calls for its removal The New York Times 4 December http://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/arts/met-museum-balthus-painting-girl.html

[24] A. Lomas 2016 Species Explorer: An interface for artistic exploration of multi-dimensional parameter spaces Bowen et al. 2016 95 102 DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.23

[25] I. PapadimitriouJ. AddisA. LomasL. DekkerK. SingporewaiaP. Tresset 2017 Digital Futures: Lumen Big Reveal Bowen et al. 2017 438 440 DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.86

[26] R. Parry 2007 Recoding the Museum: Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change Routledge

[27] R. Parry 2010 Museums in a Digital Age Routledge

[28] R. Parry 2013 The end of the beginning: Normativity in the postdigital museum Museum Worlds 1 24 39 DOI: 10.3167/armw.2013.010103

[29] G. Polmeer 2016 Sublating time: Hegel's speculative philosophy and digital aesthetics Bowen et al. 2016 257 264 DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.49

[30] J. SoniR. Goodman 2017 A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age Simon & Schuster

[31] L. TallonK. Walker (eds.) 2008 Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience AltaMira

[32] Tate 2017 Modigliani Tate Modern, London 26 November 2017 – 26 April 2018 http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/modigliani

[33] Telegraph 2018 Manchester Art Gallery's #MeToo-inspired removal of nude Nymphs painting branded a 'pathetic stunt' The Telegraph 1 February http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/manchester-art-gallerys-metoo-inspired-removal-nude-nymphs-painting/

[34] J. M. Twenge 2017 Have smart phones destroyed a generation? The Atlantic September http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/

[35] A. VermeerenL. CalviA. Sabiescu (eds.) 2018 Museum Experience Design Springer, Series on Cultural Computing

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