Thanks to the Leverhulme Trust-funded international research network on Feminism and Curating, the Smithsonian is hosting a research symposium 23-24 September 2011 to probe some of the deep ethical questions about technology and museum practice:
What’s new about “new media”? It is truly transformative, or just another modernist trope of “innovation”?
Is technology really “broadening access” to museums, or just adding more and new faces to the existing structures of power?
Can technology play a more critical role in the museum, enabling encounters and counter-narratives that “difference the canon” as Griselda Pollock has called it?
Attendance is free and open to all. More information at http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/irn and on the symposium wiki: http://feminismandcurating.pbworks.com/w/page/44129643/Smithsonian
The symposium will be preceded on Thu 22 Sept by an evening event from The Smithsonian Associates:
Interview with Professor Pollock by Dr Juliet Bellow http://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/bellow.cfm
http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=222964
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