16.456 digitally born artifacts in museums

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 02:23:36 EST

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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 456.
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             Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:14:29 +0000
             From: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" <bkg@nyu.edu>
             Subject: RE: 16.454 digitally born artifacts in museums

    The newly installed British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum
    makes effective use of digital artifacts in the presence of the originals to
    show aspects of them that viewers would not otherwise be able to see or
    notice.
    <http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/british_galleries/?version=1§ion=british_galleries>http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/british_galleries/?version=1§ion=british_galleries.

    Compare with the marvelous cast court, which are after all just as
    virtual as digital simulations, just another medium from another time.
    <http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/galleries/european_sculpture/cast_courts/?section=cast_courts>http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/galleries/european_sculpture/cast_courts/?section=cast_courts.

    Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
    University Professor
    Department of Performance Studies
    New York University
    721 Broadway, 6th fl
    New York, NY 10003-6807
    212-998-1628 (tel) / 212-254-7885 (fax)
    <mailto:bkg@nyu.edu>mailto:bkg@nyu.edu



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