Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology

Computer technology has transformed modern society, yet curators wishing to reflect those changes face difficult challenges in terms of both collecting and exhibiting. This book examines how curators at the Smithsonian Institution have met these challenges. It makes useful reading for curators, scholars, and students.

List of contents

1. What is Computer-Based Technology?

2. Curating the Unprecedented

3. Adaptive, Distributed, and Transmitted: The Expert Curation in Action

4. Dealing with the Digital: Computer Technology in the Collection

5. "The Black Box Conundrum": Computer Technology on Exhibit

6. Internal Processing: The Methods of Curating Computer-Based Technology

7. The Ever-Evolving Future

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Petrina Foti is Adjunct Professor in Museum Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. She is involved with the Oral History Collection at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, USA.

Summary

Computer technology has transformed modern society, yet curators wishing to reflect those changes face difficult challenges in terms of both collecting and exhibiting. This book examines how curators at the Smithsonian Institution have met these challenges. It makes useful reading for curators, scholars, and students.

Product details

• Authors: Petrina Foti
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2013
• EAN: 9780367583644
• ISBN: 978-0-367-58364-4
• No. of pages: 166
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 255 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Cultural Studies, COMPUTERS / General, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, computer science, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections