1st Edition
Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology Expert Curation at the Museums of the Smithsonian Institution
By Petrina Foti
Copyright 2019
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Computer technology has transformed modern society, yet curators wishing to reflect those changes face difficult challenges in terms of both collecting and exhibiting. Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology examines how curators at the history and technology museums of the Smithsonian Institution have met these challenges. Focusing on the curatorial process, the book... Read more
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
Biography
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.
