Of Museums and Digital Culture: A landscape view

Abstract

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.

Contributors

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

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

Conference

Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 172-179

Affiliations

Professor of Information

School of Information

Pratt Institute

New York, USA

Professor of Computing

School of Engineering

London South Bank University

London, UK

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.34

Copyright statement: © Giannini et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2018, UK

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Conference acronym: EVA

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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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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing