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UCL Press is delighted to announce a new open access book that will be of interest to readers of this list: Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age by Haidy Geismar. Free download: https://goo.gl/S991du
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Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Haidy Geismar
Free download: https://goo.gl/S991du
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Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social, and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography), and theories of how knowledge is produced in museums on a wide range of digital projects. Swooping from Ethnographic to Decorative Arts Collections, from the Google Art Project, to bespoke digital experiments, Haidy Geismar explores the object lessons contained in digital form and asks what they can tell us about both the past and the future.
Free download: https://goo.gl/S991du
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