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      ‘Things”: a case study in getting from accession to online display in 60 minutes

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      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011) (EVA)
      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011)
      6 - 8 July 2011
      Objects, photography, museology, public engagement
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            Abstract

            This paper looks at the online presence of the exhibition ‘Things’ by artist Keith Wilson that took place at Wellcome Collection in October 2010. It examines the process by which objects were temporarily acquired from members of the public for an exhibition, and the way in which those images were digitised and managed to form the online element of the exhibition, using the photo sharing website Flickr. It looks at the role of student volunteers and their reaction to the use of technology, as well as the reactions of the public to the use of images online to represent their donated objects, and some alternatives to the conventional ‘object’ photography that museums employ. It draws the conclusion that images, and digital images in particular, form an increasingly important part of the museum paradigm at all levels.

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            Conference
            July 2011
            July 2011
            : 25-32
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            [0001]Wellcome Collection

            183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/EVA2011.6
            cafd34e4-cfeb-4e2d-a53d-4f602af11991
            © Danny Birchall. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011), London, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011)
            EVA
            London, UK
            6 - 8 July 2011
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011)
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/EVA2011.6
            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Objects,photography,museology,public engagement

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