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MUSEUM MEDIA Edited by Michelle Henning Museum Media explores the contemporary uses of diverse media in museum contexts and discusses how technology is reinventing the museum. It considers how technological changes—from photography and television through to digital mobile media—have given rise to new habits, forms of attention and behaviors. It explores how research methods can be used to understand people's relationships with media technologies and display techniques in museum contexts, as well as the new opportunities media offer for museums to engage with their visitors. Entries written by leading experts examine the transformation of history and memory by new media, the ways in which exhibitions mediate visitor experience, how designers and curators can establish new kinds of relationships with visitors, the expansion of the museum beyond its walls and its insertion into a wider commercial and corporate landscape. Focusing on formal, theoretical and technical aspects of exhibition practice, this in-depth volume explores questions of temporality, attachment to objects, atmospheric and immersive exhibition design, the reinvention of the exhibition medium, and much more.

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Author:   Michelle Henning (University of Brighton)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   1.247kg
ISBN:  

9781119642022

ISBN 10:   1119642027
Pages:   704
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix Editor xiii General Editors xiv Contributors xv Acknowledgments xvii General Editors’ Preface to Museum Studies and the International Handbooks of Museum Studies xix Museum Media: An Introduction xxvii Michelle Henning Part I The Museum as Medium 1 1 Museums and Media Archaeology: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst 3 Michelle Henning 2 Media Archaeology of/in the Museum 23 Andrew Hoskins and Amy Holdsworth 3 Museums and the Challenge of Transmediation: The Case of Bristol’s Wildwalk 43 Nils Lindahl Elliot 4 Mediatized Memory: Video Testimonies in Museums 69 Steffi de Jong 5 Visible and Invisible Institutions: Cinema in the French Art Museum 95 Jenny Chamarette 6 The Museum as TV Producer: Televisual Form in Curating, Commissioning, and Public Programming 121 Maeve Connolly 7 SimKnowledge: What Museums Can Learn from Video Games 145 Seth Giddings Part II Mediation and Immersion 165 8 The Life of Things 167 Ivan Gaskell 9 Lighting Practices in Art Galleries and Exhibition Spaces, 1750–1850 191 Alice Barnaby 10 There’s Something in the Air: Sound in the Museum 215 Rupert Cox 11 Aesthetics and Atmosphere in Museums: A Critical Marketing Perspective 235 Brigitte Biehl‐Missal and Dirk vom Lehn 12 Museums, Interactivity, and the Tasks of “Exhibition Anthropology” 259 Erkki Huhtamo 13 Keeping Objects Live 279 Fiona Candlin Part III Design and Curating in the Media Age 303 14 Total Media 305 Peter Higgins 15 From Object to Environment: The Recent History of Exhibitions in Germany and Austria 327 Bettina Habsburg‐Lothringen [Translated by Mark Miscovich] 16 Museums as Spaces of the Present: The Case for Social Scenography 349 Beat Hachler [Translated by Niall Hoskin] 17 (Dis)playing the Museum: Artifacts, Visitors, Embodiment, and Mediality 371 Karin Harrasser 18 Transforming the Natural History Museum in London: Isotype and the New Exhibition Scheme 389 Sue Perks 19 Embodiment and Place Experience in Heritage Technology Design 419 Luigina Ciolfi Part IV Extending the Museum 447 20 Open and Closed Systems: New Media Art in Museums and Galleries 449 Beryl Graham 21 Diffused Museums: Networked, Augmented, and Self‐Organized Collections 473 John Bell and Jon Ippolito 22 Mobile in Museums: From Interpretation to Conversation 499 Nancy Proctor 23 Moving Out: Museums, Mobility, and Urban Spaces 527 Mark W. Rectanus 24 Beyond the Glass Case: Museums as Playgrounds for Replication 553 Petra Tjitske Kalshoven 25 With and Without Walls: Photographic Reproduction and the Art Museum 577 Michelle Henning 26 The Elastic Museum: Cinema Within and Beyond 603 Haidee Wasson Index 629

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MICHELLE HENNING is Professor in Photography and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is a practicing photographer and designer, and has written widely on museums, media, and photography in her books Museums, Media and Cultural Theory and Photography: The Unfettered Image.

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