Ⓥ 1.2 Digital Museum Practices
Tracks
Track 2
Monday, June 24, 2024 |
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
Plaza P6 |
Overview
This session will be livestreamed from Brisbane for virtual delegates
Speaker
Dr Vince Dziekan
Monash University
P: Configuring Museum Digital Research in Australia
11:00 AM - 11:45 AMAbstract
How might museums operate as a locus for research ac-tion? Based on the engagement of the co-chairs with bur-geoning formations of museum digital research, this panel will bring together a set of presenters to share a range of perspectives and experiences that indicate the current state of practice research in the Australian cultural eco-system. This panel will explore how research has tradi-tionally been situated in museums to articulate what the basis for a values-led approach to research into, for and through museums might entail if it fully embraces creative experimentation, nurtures reflective practice, and cultivates a willingness to operate openly and collaboratively across cultural, academic and creative industry sectors.
Biography
Vince Dziekan is a senior academic and practitioner-researcher at Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA), Monash University, Australia, and holds a fellowship position with the Institute for Digital Culture at the University of Leicester, UK. Vince’s work engages with the transformation of contemporary curatorial practices at the intersection of emerging design practices, creative technology, and museum culture. The scope of these interdisciplinary investigations is reflected in his books, Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition: Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum (Intellect Books | University of Chicago Press, 2012), and The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication (Routledge, 2018). Vince has published widely in traditional, scholarly as well as non-traditional modes through his independent curatorial practice. He is currently leading re-search programmes as general editor of The Encyclopaedia of New Media Art (Bloomsbury), and series co-editor (along with Ross Parry) of a new book series for Routledge, titled Critical Perspectives on Museums and Digital Technology.
Dr Indigo Holcombe-James
Strategic Research Lead
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
Panelist
Biography
Indigo Holcombe-James is the Strategic Research Lead at ACMI, your museum of screen culture. In this role, Indigo coordinates research projects with tertiary partners, commissions market research, and conducts the in-house visitor re-search and evaluation that ensures the audience is at the centre of the museum. Prior to joining ACMI, Indigo was a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, located in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. Indigo’s research fo-cussed on digital transformation and inequality in cultural and creative institutions and industries, and has been published in Cultural Trends, Archival Science, Media International Australia, Informatics and Telematics, and the Inter-national Journal of Communication.
Associate Professor Jo Law
University of Wollongong
FP: Video as Craft: How Engaging with Media Art Collections Can Re-constitute Experience and Restore the Experimental Spirit
11:45 AM - 12:10 PMAbstract
The turn of the new millennium was a time of generational changes in technologies, materials and artistic inquiries in experimental arts. The 2020s will see many not-for-profit media arts organisations marking their fourth and fifth-decade milestones. What stories will their collections tell, and what new stories will be composed from (re)visiting these works?
In this paper, I look back to the rapidly evolving decades of the 1990s using an autoethnographic method with a focus on Australia and Hong Kong. I present the case study of my video works through the lens of craft to highlight how the haptic and the social dimensions of making influence the stories we (re)tell. I locate the workshop and the cinema as sites where experiments invite open dialogues and exchanges about mate-rials, techniques, processes, tools, and experiences. I argue that attending to these dimensions in how we experience artworks of the past restores the experimental spirit within our stories.
I hope to show how an active embodied engagement with media artworks and collections has the capacity to re-constitute experience afforded by the creative act.
In this paper, I look back to the rapidly evolving decades of the 1990s using an autoethnographic method with a focus on Australia and Hong Kong. I present the case study of my video works through the lens of craft to highlight how the haptic and the social dimensions of making influence the stories we (re)tell. I locate the workshop and the cinema as sites where experiments invite open dialogues and exchanges about mate-rials, techniques, processes, tools, and experiences. I argue that attending to these dimensions in how we experience artworks of the past restores the experimental spirit within our stories.
I hope to show how an active embodied engagement with media artworks and collections has the capacity to re-constitute experience afforded by the creative act.
Biography
My research investigates how the textual imprints of media and materials in artworks shape human experience. My current research projects focus on the collaboration between scientific and creative disciplines to examine how art and technologies shape the ways we make sense of our world in creating our futures.
I am currently the Head of School of the Arts, English and Media, in the Faculty of the Arts, Social Science.
Session chair
Lucie Ketelsen
The University of Western Australia
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