Editor | Tula Giannini Jonathan P. Bowen |
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Language | English |
Series | Springer Series on Cultural Computing |
Subject | Museums, museum informatics, digital culture, digital humanities |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
Publication date | 2019 |
Media type | Print (hardcover), electronic |
Pages | xxviii+590 |
ISBN | 978-3-319-97456-9 |
OCLC | 1042394473 |
Museums and Digital Culture (2019) is an interdisciplinary book about developments in digital culture with respect to museums. [1] [2] It is edited by Tula Giannini and Jonathan P. Bowen, who are also the authors of 12 chapters. The book is part of the Springer Series on Cultural Computing, edited by Ernest Edmonds. The book was launched at the EVA London 2019 Conference. [3]
The book is divided into nine parts, with 28 chapters by a variety of authors. The book includes a foreword by Loïc Tallon, co-editor of the 2008 book Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience . There is also a preface, list of contributors and abbreviations, and an index.
The book is divided into the following parts:
The following authors contributed to chapters in the book:
The book has been reviewed in the following journals:
In 2024, the editors produced a follow-on volume in the same Springer series, The Arts and Computational Culture: Real and Virtual Worlds, considering the arts with respect to computational culture, including 27 contributed chapters in seven parts, with a foreword by Paul Brown, a computational artist. [9] [10] This was reviewed in the journal Nature . [11]
Digitality is used to mean the condition of living in a digital culture, derived from Nicholas Negroponte's book Being Digital in analogy with modernity and post-modernity.
Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA is a British computer scientist and an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, where he headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods. Prof. Bowen is also the Chairman of Museophile Limited and an adjunct professor at Southwest University in Chongqing, China. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University, Visiting Professor at the Pratt Institute, University of Westminster and King's College London, and a visiting academic at University College London.
The Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) formed an early leading directory of online museums around the world.
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James Hemsley is the founder of the EVA Conferences on Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts.
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Kim (Keimpe) Henry Veltman was a Dutch/Canadian historian of science and art, director of the Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (VMMI), consultant and author, known for his contributions in the fields of "linear perspective and the visual dimensions of science and art," new media, culture and society.
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Carla Gannis is an American transmedia artist based in New York and professor at the Pratt Institute in the Department of Digital Arts until 2019 when she joined New York University. Her works combine digital imagery with well-known works of art such as paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. She received widespread attention in 2013 for her emoji version of Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Andy Lomas is a British artist with a mathematical background, formerly a television and film CG supervisor and more recently a contemporary digital artist, with a special interest in morphogenesis using mathematical morphology.
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