[NetBehaviour] CONFERENCE | Digital Horizons, Virtual Selves | 21 & 22 January 2016.

[dave miller]

Thanks marc
Also could u please tell me how to subscribe to the new media curating list?
All best
Dave
On 6 Jan 2016 23:53, "marc garrett" <marc.garrett2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I noticed this on the New Media Curating list, thought some here may be
> interested :-)
>
> marc
>
> CONFERENCE | Digital Horizons, Virtual Selves | 21 & 22 January 2016.
>
> The Research Center for Material Culture of the National Museum of World
> Cultures (NMVW) proudly invites you to the international conference:
>
> DIGITAL HORIZONS, VIRTUAL SELVES: RETHINKING CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE
> MUSEUM
> 21 and 22 January 2016
>
> Steenstraat 1, 2312 BS Leiden, The Netherlands
>
> How should museums remember the digital age? This conference brings
> together curators and theorists to share and explore approaches towards
> researching, collecting and displaying digital heritage in the
> ethnographic  museum.
>
> In the past two decades digital technologies have become omnipresent in
> the museum. They have changed the ways museums document, preserve, make
> accessible and present cultural heritage. Ethnographic museums follow this
> trend: they have embraced digital technologies as tools for engaging the
> public, for cataloguing and disseminating knowledge about their collections
> and for democratizing knowledge production. However, scant attention has
> been given by these museums to thinking about digital technologies as
> cultural objects and practices in their own rights. Ethnographic museums
> have in many ways ignored the influence of the digital on cultural dynamics
> and practices as well as the subjectivities associated with these
> practices. One of the reasons is the pre-occupation with material
> authenticity, aura and originality – presumably values that the digital
> lacks – which has prevented digital objects to attain the status of
> cultural artifacts worthy of a place in museum collections.
>
> As a consequence digital heritage is not yet part of the research,
> exhibition and collecting agendas of these museums. This conference aims to
> open up a space to create new definitions and roles for digital objects in
> the museum, to study the artistic, social, cultural and political aspects
> of digital practices and to explore possibilities for collecting and
> preserving digital cultures for the future.
>
> Invited speakers will examine questions such as:
> - How can ethnographic museums reflect on the impact of digital
> technologies on identity, culture and society?
> - Should the ethnographic museum offer a memory space for digital
> practices and objects, and if so which of those could be of interest?
> - How might the study of digital cultural practices enable new
> perspectives on collections held by (ethnographic) museums? How might the
> acquisition of digital objects challenge what we understand (ethnographic)
> museum objects, and associated concepts of material authenticity,
> originality and aura, to be?
> - To what extent do digital technologies enable a rethinking of the
> foundational principles and practices of ethnographic museums and their
> colonial past?
>
> Speakers include:
> Bart Barendregt (Leiden University), Victoria Bernal (University of
> California, Irvine), Robin Boast (University of Amsterdam), Annet Dekker
> (Tate, Piet Zwart Institute), Tjarda de Haan (Amsterdam Museum), Katja
> Kwastek (VU University Amsterdam), Jessica De Largy Healy (Musée du quai
> Branly, Paris), Kieran Long (Victoria & Albert Museum, London), Thomas
> Poell (University of Amsterdam), Anna Reading (King's College, London),
> Mirko Schäfer (Utrecht University), Stephan Schwingeler (ZKM Center for Art
> and Media, Karlsruhe)
>
> --
> Marc Garrett
> Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor ofFurtherfield.
>
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