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. Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Furtherfield Gallery & Commons, Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ T +44(0)208 802 1301/+44(0)208 802 2827 M +44(0)7717 887923 www.furtherfield.org
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