Museums in a Digital Culture: How Art and Heritage Became Meaningful

[Amsterdam University Press] ✓ Museums in a Digital Culture: How Art and Heritage Became Meaningful Õ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Museums in a Digital Culture: How Art and Heritage Became Meaningful The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and assemblages of artworks, which we intuitively browse and navigate in a way that wasn’t possible until very recently. This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology that makes these new engagements possibl

Author	:	Amsterdam University Press
Rating	:	4.38 (603 Votes)
Asin	:	9089646612
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	142 Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-03-26
Language	:	English

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The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and assemblages of artworks, which we intuitively browse and navigate in a way that wasn’t possible until very recently. This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology that makes these new engagements possible, asking questions like: How should we theorize the sensory experience of art and heritag

 . About the AuthorChiel van den Akker is a lecturer in historical theory in the Department of History at VU University Amsterdam, where Susan Legêne is professor of political history

Chiel van den Akker is a lecturer in historical theory in the Department of History at VU University Amsterdam, where Susan Legêne is professor of political history.