Web Design for the Culture Sector

Assessment: MID-TERM PROJECTS

FINAL PROJECTS

1 computer midterm design project (worth 25 %)
1 final design project (worth 40%)
3500-4000 word essay (worth 35%)

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Lectures and workshops	Bibliography	Links
1. Introduction to Web Design for the Culture Sector HANDOUT Introduction integrating practice and theory Definition(s) of the museum Institutional functions Museums for the People? Electronic functions - introduction Brief: Framing the museum Museum home page Institutional logo Menu	Tony Bennet, 1995, "Museums and 'the people', The Birth of the Museum, Robert Hewison, 1987, The Heritage Industry, Methuen J. Pedro Lorente, 1998, Cathedrals of Urban Modernity, the Emergence of the First Museums of Contemporary Art, Ashgate Susan M. Pearce, Museums Objects and Collections, Leicester University Press, 1992 Appleton Josie, 2001, Museums for' The People?', Institute of Ideas, Conversations in Print, Academy of Ideas Ltd. Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, Ed. 1991, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC., USA	Virtual Library Museums Pages A distributed directory of on-line museums Art Museum network Museums, collections, exhibitions ICOM The International Council of Museums Museum Computer Network A Nonprofit Organization for Museum Professionals Links to over 1,000 international museum and museum-related WWW sites Department for Culture, Media, and Sport Great historic collections are a priceless national asset and DCMS is responsible for conserving this rich inheritance for future generations. Museumstuff.com International and national museum directories Museum Domain Management Association MuseDoma is the sponsoring organization of the .museum top-level domain (TLD). http://musedoma.museum/ Collections Management software for Museums
2. Information <> Knowledge HANDOUT The traditional role of the museum is said to enhance knowledge. The primary role of the Internet is more about information. Can these contrary paradigms be resolved on an online museum? Archives The Electronic image Archiving the collection Classification systems Transnational collections/archives Brief: Structuring an online collection or exhibition Thematic context links across institution or outside of the museum The national museum Transnational collections	Sontag, S. 1999, the image-world, in Visual Culture, Sage Sontag, S.,1979, On photography, Penguin Books, UK Barthes, R. 1993, the photographic message, Barthes Reader, Vintage, Auge, M. 1995, non-places, Verso, London, New York Barthes, R. 2000, Camera Lucinda: Reflections on Photography, Vintage, UK Benjamin, W. 1992, Illuminations, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Fontana Press, UK Robins, K.S, 1996, Into the Image, Routledge, UK Manovich, L., 2001, The Language of New media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London, England Morse, M. 1998, Virtualities, Television, Media Art, and Cyberculture, Indiana University Press Abbott, Robert, 1999, The World as Information, Intellect, Exeter, England Anderson Benedict, 1983, Imagined Communities, Verso	CIDOC is the international focus for the documentation interests of museums and related organizations Information on metadata and other cataloging and indexing information in relation to digital collections MOUSEIA - a festival of the Muses --- the online resource centre for museulologists and museum professionals Mark Hardens Archive Virtualology WebMuseum Network Art Guide, the comprehensive Internet guide to the art collections of Great Britain and Ireland Wayback Machine The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf pages stored in the Internet Archive's web archive. Search the exCALENDAR database for exhibitions. Enter an artist's name, exhibition title, city, keyword or museum name. Search Artcyclopedia: The definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet: Representational Art Exhibitions Traditional Fine Arts Online Web Gallery of Art Send a postcard (great online artist archive) AMICO The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not-for-profit organization of institutions with collections of art, collaborating to enable educational use of museum multimedia. Dublin Core The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models.
3. Information <> Knowledge II Museum Functions HANDOUT Contextualising the collections in an institutional framework. Creating the ambiance of an online museum. Mirroring museum functions online Brief The museum as an institution Online shop Events Visitor information Opening hours Moreover Live media feed	Fyfe. G., 1996, Theorising museums :representing identity and diversity in a changing world Fyfe. Gordon, 1988, Picturing power: visual depiction and social relations Sherman, Daniel, and Rogoff, Irit, Ed., 1994, Museum Culture, Clifford James, 1997, Museums as Contact Zones, in Routes, Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press Alfred Gell, 1998, Art and Agency, An Anthropological Theory, Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK John Berger, 1977, Ways of Seeing, British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books, UK Hazan, Susan, 1997, The Fourth Wall - The Virtual in the Museum, Conference Proceedings, ICHIM Museum de Louvre, Paris	National Gallery, London National Portrait Gallery New Art Gallery, Walsall Serpentine Gallery Tate College Art Collections, University of London The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London Museum of Modern Art, Oxford The South London Gallery Courtauld Institute of Art Victoria and Albert Museum Museum of London Natural History Museum The National Museum of Science and Industry Science Museum, London National Railway Museum
4. Fakes and fiction of the Electronic Surrogate. Simulations Conservation Restoration Authoring the past Memory Brief Create a (fake/fictional) 3D reconstruction in Photoshop, Bryce, Poser, Adobe® Atmosphere™, 3dmax	Weschler, L.,1995, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Vintage Books, New York, USA Bourdieu, Pierre, 1993 (1968), The Field of Cultural Production, Polity Burgin, Victor, 1986, The end of art theory, Macmillon Press, Ltd. Clifford, James, 1986, Writing Culture, The Poetics and Politics of Ethnology, ed. Clifford, G.E. Marcus, University of California Press, Giddens, Anthony, 1990, The Consequences of Modernity, Polity Press, Eco, Umberto, 1994, Apocalypse Postponed, Indiana University Press	Fakes and Forgeries at the V&A Room 46 The Museum of Jurassic Technology "...guided along as it were a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life." The Huntarian Museum, London Sir John Soan's Museum Geffrye Museum - English Domestic Interiors Walk through time at one of London's most friendly and enjoyable museums Imperial War Museum The Holocaust Museum Under the cover of the Second World War, for the first time in history, industrial methods were used for the mass extermination of a whole people. Adobe® Atmosphere™ Animatricity 3dmax 3dmax Gallery How to - online tutorials, tips and links to EVERYTHING useful - http://www.howtos.nl/
5. Digitally Born Art Digital interventions Surrogate art Network art Hybrid SMS<>ICQ>< IRC> art Brief Design an art portal or timeline illustrating what separates the art from the framing device	Documenta 11 :the catalogue Okwui Enwezor ... [et al.]. 2002. Whitney biennial 2002 :2002 biennial exhibition /Lawrence R. Rinder ... [et al.] Net condition :art and global media /edited by Peter Weibel and Timothy Druckrey Ars Electronica :facing the future : a survey of two decades /edited by Timothy Druckrey De Landa, Manuel, 1991, War in the age of intelligent machines, New York : Zone Books	Shakeitbabe Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace Steve Dietz's Traveling web/installations/hybrid exhibition Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria Sonic Flux - WalkerArt gallery 010101: ART.IN.Technological.Times SFMOMA Digital Culture - Walker Art Gallery 9 Whitney Biennial ZKM - Museum fur Neue Kunst Immersence National Museum of Film & Photography Bradford, West Yorkshire Stelarc Lev Manovich new media research
6. Documenting and Distributing the Digitally Born Artists sites Institutional sites Networked art Digital curating Brief Art portal II	Meecham, Pam, and Sheldon, Julie, 2000, Modern Art, A Critical Introduction, Routledge Nairne, Sandy, 1987, State of the Art, Ideas & Images in the 1980's, Chatton and Windus Negroponte, Nicholas, 1995, Vintage, USA Turkle, Shelly, 1997, Life on the Screen, Identity in the Age of the Internet, Touchstone, USA Robins Kevin and Webster Frank, 1999, Time of the Technoculture, Routledge	The Alternativemuseum.org Index of museums whitney.org/artport/ A Net Art Idea Line mapping lines of thought through time Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria Sonic Flux - WalkerArt gallery 010101: ART.IN.Technological.Times SFMOMA Digital Culture - Walker Art Gallery 9 Whitney Biennial DEAF00 Electronic Art Festival Rotterdam, November 2000 National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
7. Online Museum Education Museum@school Curating for curriculum Interactives in the gallery Object in focus Memory Brief: Select a subject and key stage from the national curriculum. Design an online exhibition that illustrates a school project based on an online exhibition.	Falk, John and Dierking, Lynn, D., 2000, Learning from the Museum, Visitor Experience and the Making of Meaning, AltaMira Press Hein, George, E., 1998, Learning in the Museum, Routledge Weil, Stephen, 1995, A Cabinet of Curiosities, Inquiries into Museums and their Prospects, Smithsonian Institutional Press Victoria and Albert Museum: V&A education for all.. London : Victoria and Albert Museum , 1992 Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean, 1991, Museum and gallery education, Leicester University Press Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean, 1991, Writing a museum education policy, University of Leicester, Department of Museum Studies	National Curriculum Online The British Museum Illuminating World Cultures The Education Department of The British Museum offers a range of learning experiences for everyone, whatever your age or level of interest. Schoolhistory.co.uk The Metropolitan Online Resources ArtsEdNet - The Getty Art Education Web Site Guggenheim - Education Best of the Web 2002 - Museums and the Web Educational Sites American Museum of Natural History Ology Tate's Ultra-Modern Visual Access Deliberately Concealed Garments Project
8. Educational Interactives Agency Networked projects Transnational archives Student authorship Brief: Devise an interactive experience for adults, youth or small children based on museum collection	Stephen Greenblatt, 'Resonance and Wonder, Exhibiting Cultures, the Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, Smithsonian, 1991 Hooper-Greenhill, E., 1989, Initiatives in Museum Education, University of Leicester Karp I. and Lavine S.D Ed., 1991, Exhibition Cultures, The Poetics and politics of Museum Display, Smithsonian Institute, USA Lumley R, Ed., 1998, The Museum Time Machine, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, Comedia, by Routledge Macdonald S. and Fyfe, G., 1996, Theorizing the Museum, Ed.Blackwell Pearce, S. M., 1997, Collecting in contemporary practice, Sage Pearce, S.M., 1992, Museums Objects and Collections, Leicester University Press	Minneapolis Institute of Arts Salem Witch Museum Education Twenty-four innocent victims lost their lives in the Salem witchcraft hysteria. How did the community of Salem let this tragedy happen? Was it simply fear and superstition, or were there other factors at work? Witchcraft Hysteria Science Museum Downloadable Interactives Choose a Picture - Quentin Blake at the National Gallery Interactive online exhibitions at the Natural History Museum Niagra Falls Live Webcam Earth Viewer Anagram server - A SEED EVIL YOULL NO The Mighty Book Online reading skills Icky, sticky, and gooey The Telegarden 1996-97: On Exhibit at the Ars Electronica Center Online dictionary/thesaurus Switcheroo Zoo - switch around the animal parts Bembos Zoo Alphabet
9. Virtual Museums Commercial Non for profit entities Real or really virtual Defining the virtual Replicating the real Copyright Brief: Storyboard for final project	Barthes, R., 2000, Camera Lucinda: Reflections on Photography, Vintage, UK Roland Barthes, The Imagination of the sign, A Barthes Reader , 1982, 1993 Roland Barthes, 'The Rhetoric of the Image', Visual Culture, Ed. Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall, 1999 Baudrillard, Jean, 1994, Simulacra and Simulation, University of Michigan Press Murray, Janes, 1997, Hamlet on the Holodeck, The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts	Virtual Museum of Arts El Pais The 24 hour Museum The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery The Virtual Leonardo Project Lin Hsin Hsin Museum of Art Lesley Ellen Harris- copyright laws Copyright Website Teach Act - TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, AND COPYRIGHT HARMONIZATION (TEACH) ACT ART TRUMPS RIGHT TO PRIVACY NEW YORK. A Federal court in New York has thrown out a lawsuit against the artist Barbara Kruger, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and others including the MIT Press. In the lawsuit, two individuals, the photographer Thomas Hoepker and his friend Charlotte Dabney, had sought damages stemming from the use and exhibition of an image of Dabney within a work created by Barbara Kruger. Chanceprojects an agency for the collaborative work of artists neil cummings and marysia lewandowska
10. Global Collaborations Dot.museum Guggenheim.com Licensing for educational archives Transnational Tug of the commercial Non for profit Brief: Outline and work plan for final project	Cummings Neil and Lewandowska, Marysia, 2 001, Capital, A Project by, Tate Duncan C., 1991, Art and the ritual of citizenship in Exhibiting Culture, Ed. I. Karp and D. Lavine, Smithsonian Institution Books, USA Klein, Naomi 2000, NO LOGO, Flamingo Jameson, Fredric, 1991, Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Verso Llash, S. and Urry, J. 1994, Economies of Signs and Space, London: Sage Pauitt, Jane, 1999, Brands - Brand New, V&A Publications Thomas, Nicholas, 1991, Entangles Objects, Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific, Harvard University Press, USA	EUROPE Louvre Mus?e d'Orsay, Paris, France Louisiana Museum for Modern Kunst - Denmark Eskimo Treasures, Danish National Museum Danish Ministry of Culture USA The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Frick Collection Los Angeles County Museum Art - LACMA Minneapolis Institute of Arts Lists Archives of ICOM-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM International Council of Museums Discussion List Search the archives Archives of MUSEUM-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Museum discussion list you are welcome to join the list vr-art This list is for the discussion of the uses of Virtual Reality technology in artistic practice. The Museums Computer Group meets twice a year at different museums throughout the UK. Group meetings provide a forum for discussion between museum, gallery, archive and HE professionals who work with computers and new technologies.