Petrina Foti

Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology

Expert Curation at the Museums of the Smithsonian Institution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Computer technology has transformed modern society, yet curators wishing to reflect those changes face difficult challenges in terms of both collecting and exhibiting. This book examines how curators at the Smithsonian Institution have met these challenges. It makes useful reading for curators, scholars, and students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367583644
• ISBN-10: 036758364X
• Artikelnr.: 69893739

Autorenporträt

Petrina Foti is Adjunct Professor in Museum Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. She is involved with the Oral History Collection at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is Computer-Based Technology?
2. Curating the Unprecedented
3. Adaptive, Distributed, and Transmitted: The Expert Curation in Action
4. Dealing with the Digital: Computer Technology in the Collection
5. "The Black Box Conundrum": Computer Technology on Exhibit
6. Internal Processing: The Methods of Curating Computer-Based Technology
7. The Ever-Evolving Future
Bibliography
Index