Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book explores―at the macro, meso and micro levels and in terms of qualitative as well as quantitative studies―the current and future role of museums for art and society. Given the dynamic developments in art and society, museums need to change in order to remain (and in some ways, regain) relevance. This relevance is in the sense of a power to influence. Additionally museums have challenges that arise in the production of art through the use of permanent and rapidly changing technologies. This book examines how museums deal with the increasing importance of performance art and social interactive art, artistic disciplines which refuse to use classical or digital artistic media in their artistic processes. The book also observes how museums are adapting in the digital age. It addresses such questions as, "How to keep museums in contact with recipients of art in a world in which the patterns of communication and perception have changed dramatically," and also "Can the art museum, as a real place, be a counterpart in a virtualized and digitalized society or will museums need to virtualize and even globalize themselves virtually?" Chapters also cover topics such as the merits of digital technologies in museums and how visitors perceive these changes and innovations.
When you go back to the etymological origin, the Mouseion of Alexandria, it was a place where - supported by the knowledge stored there - art and science were developed: a place of interdisciplinary research and networking, as you would call it today. The word from the Ancient Hellenic language for museum (ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟΝ) means the "house of the muses" where the arts and sciences find their berth and cradle. With the "Wunderkammer," the museum was re-invented as a place for amazing for purpose of representation of dynastic power, followed by the establishment of museums as a demonstration of bourgeois self-consciousness. In the twentieth century, the ideal of the museum as an institution for education received a strong boost, before the museum as a tourism infrastructure became more and more the institutional, economic and political role-model. This book is interested in discovering what is next for museums and how these developments will affect art and society. Each of the chapters are written by academics in the field, but also by curators and directors of major museums and art institutions.
Synopsis
Below is a tentative Table of Contents and contributing authors:
Chapter 1. Introduction: Gerald Bast, Elias G. Carayannis and David F. J. Campbell
Chapter 2. The Future of Museums: Gerald Bast (
[email protected] University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Chapter 3." Merits of digital technologies for the museum of the future" or "Potentials of digital technologies in the museum" Judit B nyei (
[email protected];
[email protected] University of Art and Design Budapest, Hungary) & Zs fia Ruttkay (
[email protected] of Art and Design Budapest, Hungary)
Chapter 4. Entering the Flow: Museum between Archive and Gesamtkunstwerk: Boris Groys (
[email protected]; New York University, U.S.A.; Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany)
Chapter 5.Yoko Ono (e-mail address?; Museum of Contemporary Art, Brazil)
Chapter 6. Greek Museums and Tourists' Perceptions: An Empirical Research: Eleni Mavragani (
[email protected]; Expert on Museums, Greece)
Chapter 7. Imaginary Bauhaus Museum: Danica Dakic (
[email protected]; Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany) & Ulrike Bestgen (e-mail address?; Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Germany).
Chapter 8. Deciding the Museum: Joshua Decter (
[email protected]; Art Theorist and Curator, New York City, U.S.A.)."
Chapter 9. TBD: Nicolaus Schaffhausen (
[email protected];affiliation?)
Chapter 10. Under the Spell of the User - The Future of Museums: Harald Kraemer (
[email protected]; Associate Professor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, China)
Chapter 11. TBD: Martin Roth (e-mail address?; Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK)
Chapter 12. ECM: Nora Sternfeld (
[email protected]; Professor for Curating and Mediating Art, Department of Art, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Finland) et al.
Chapter 13. Conclusion: Elias G. Carayannis, Gerald Bast and David F. J. Campbell
Synopsis
Explores the future role of museums for art and society
Addresses the challenges museums face in the digital age where technologies are rapidly changing how artists work and how museums cater to attendees
Contributions by academics as well as curators and directors of major museums and art institutions