Susana Smith Bautista

Museums in the Digital Age (eBook, PDF)

Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture showcases how the use of technology in museums should be understood as factors directly related to the museums' notion of community, local culture, and place, whether these places are in mid-America, urban metropolises, or ethnically diverse and underserved communities. Here, museum expert Susana Smith Bautista brings more than twenty years of experience in cultural institutes in Los Angeles, New York, and Greece to propose a social understanding of why museums should be adopting technology, and how it should be adapted based on their particular missions, communities, and places. This book is timely because we are in the midst of the digital age, which is rapidly changing due to rapidly changing developments in technology and society as well, with social adaptations of technology. Theory is always racing to catch up with practice in the digital age, but theory remains a critical - and often neglected - component to accompany the practical application of technology in museums. In order to illustrate these points, the book presents five case studies of the most technologically advanced art museums in the United States today: The Indianapolis Museum of ArtThe Walker Art CenterThe San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe Museum of Modern ArtThe Brooklyn Museum Each case study ends with a Lessons Learned section to bring these points home. While the case studies focus on museums in the United States, and also on art museums, this book is relevant to all types of museums and to museums all over the world, as they equally face the challenge of incorporating technology into their institutions. Although these case studies are all well-established and well-endowed museums, Bautista reveals valuable insight into the difficulties they face and the questions they are asking which are relevant to even the smallest museum or community cultural center.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765188033
• Artikelnr.: 74842089

Autorenporträt

Susana Smith Bautista is a multidisciplinary scholar on museums, digital technology, and the arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Introduction
Chapter One: The New Museology Chapter Two: Framing a Changing Museology in
the Digital Age Place/ Space/ Experience Community: To Be, or Not To Be
Culture Matters to Society Technology and its Implications Chapter Three:
Indianapolis Museum of Art Place + Localized Culture The Museum and its
Community The Role of Digital Technology Lessons Learned Chapter Four:
Walker Art Center Place + Localized Culture The Museum and its Community
The Role of Digital Technology Lessons Learned Chapter Five: San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art Place + Localized Culture The Museum and its Community
The Role of Digital Technology Lessons Learned Chapter Six: Museum of
Modern Art Place + Localized Culture The Museum and its Community The Role
of Digital Technology Lessons Learned Chapter Seven: Brooklyn Museum Place
+ Localized Culture The Museum and its Community The Role of Digital
Technology Lessons Learned Chapter Eight: Greater Than Five Supporting
Place, Community, and Culture in the Digital Age Greater Than Five Marking
Place: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Chapter Nine: A Balancing Act
Conclusion Appendices Appendix A: Methodology Appendix B: Interviews
Bibliography