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Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse

Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine

Abstract

This book offers 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 chapters in this book offer this long-missing perspective on the challenges of using digital media in the research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage. The book examines the relationship between material and digital objects in collections of art and indigenous artifacts; the implications of digita ... More

Keywords: digital media, cultural heritage institutions, critical theory, material objects, digital objects, artifacts, digital technology, knowledge creation, documentation

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2007 Print ISBN-13: 9780262033534
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013 DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262033534.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Fiona Cameron, editor

Sarah Kenderdine, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Fiona Cameron, and 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 Discourses

Fiona Cameron

4 Te Ahua 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, and Jerry Watkins

9 Digital Knowledgescapes: Cultural, Theoretical, Practical, and Usage Issues Facing Museum Collection Databases in a Digital Epoch

Fiona Cameron, and 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, and Corey Timpson

14 Localized, Personalized, and Constructivist: A Space for Online Museum Learning

Ross Parry, and Nadia Arbach

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, and 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

Scot T. Refsland, Marc Tuters, and Jim Cooley

21 Urban Heritage Representations in Hyperdocuments

Rodrigo Paraizo, and José Ripper Kós

22 Automatic Archaeology: Bridging the Gap between Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Archaeology

Juan Antonio Barceló

End Matter

Contributors

Index