These were posted by New Curator on the Museopunk Ning site.
http://museum.thinkport.org/
http://www.dreammuseum.org/
Made me think about a couple of things in terms of museums and the web.
Thought the First: We can all be curators now. What value does this accord to collections that are placed into the public domain? Who has the right to accord these things their value?
Thought the Second: I've been thinking a lot recently about the space within which the museum "experience" occurs. In online environments, this experience must be modified in some way. The ease of accessing collections is something of a conundrum, for this access via a computer could be seen to be more removed from tactile apprehension than ever. While a computer might only be able to provide auditory and visual experiences of an object, what other sensory experiences might it be able to offer that seeing the actual object could not?
The experience, for certain, would be different - but would it be worse? World Wide Web or other computer experiences can be incredibly multilayered and rich, as is the case with such hypertextual resources as The Victorian Web, or the more graphical environments of 3D gaming.
Ah, musings that come to you when you've fallen asleep in the middle of the afternoon. I think that suggests an early night for me...
http://museum.thinkport.org/
http://www.dreammuseum.org/
Made me think about a couple of things in terms of museums and the web.
Thought the First: We can all be curators now. What value does this accord to collections that are placed into the public domain? Who has the right to accord these things their value?
Thought the Second: I've been thinking a lot recently about the space within which the museum "experience" occurs. In online environments, this experience must be modified in some way. The ease of accessing collections is something of a conundrum, for this access via a computer could be seen to be more removed from tactile apprehension than ever. While a computer might only be able to provide auditory and visual experiences of an object, what other sensory experiences might it be able to offer that seeing the actual object could not?
The experience, for certain, would be different - but would it be worse? World Wide Web or other computer experiences can be incredibly multilayered and rich, as is the case with such hypertextual resources as The Victorian Web, or the more graphical environments of 3D gaming.
Ah, musings that come to you when you've fallen asleep in the middle of the afternoon. I think that suggests an early night for me...
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