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Showing 1 to 20 of 141 for “"curators"”.
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Textual curators and writing machines: authorial agency in encyclopedias, print to digital.
Wikipedia is often discussed as the first of its kind: the first massively collaborative, Web-based encyclopedia that belongs to the public domain. While it’s true that wiki technology enables large-scale, distributed collaborations in revolutionary ways, the concept of a collaborative encyclopedia …
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AGAINST A SHARP WHITE BACKGROUND: Dialogic and Exhibitionary Practices of Black Contemporary Artists and Curators in Art Museums
… with fourteen international artists and curators suggest that critical debate around the racialisation of museum space has progressed relatively little since the 1990s, with identity politics and institutional critique having fallen out of favour in contemporary museum discourse (Bishop …
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The Contestation of the European Nation-state by curators and artists participating in La Biennale di Venezia and documenta.
… political, and cultural challenges faced by curators in realizing their visions. Chapters are organized chronologically, providing an overview of the founding of La Biennale di Venezia and documenta, followed by in-depth examinations of specific curatorial interventions. The exploration goes …
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Catching Shadows: The Exhibition of Intangible Heritage of Oceania in Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
… of decolonizing objectives in museums, curators have been faced with the challenge of how to exhibit intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Existing literature on ICH in museums is sparse and that which relates to exhibition technologies like film often focuses on audience effect rather …
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Curadoria digital e práticas de multiletramentos laborais
… curation as a multimodal literacy practice among curators of digital learning objects. It is situated within the field of Applied Linguistics due to its interdisciplinary approach (Moita Lopes, 1994; 1996; 2011). The study draws on the theoretical foundations of New Literacy Studies (Barton; Lee, …
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WoCA projects, building communities through exhibitioning: Curating and spaces for women artists of color
… her womanist approaches to the work of nine curators in Texas, who reflect on their curatorial practice through open-ended interviews. Throughout this dissertation the researcher discusses the implications of womanist approaches to curatorial practice as methods for incorporating more …
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Curating as practice and profession: an exploration and definition of a contemporary independent curator.
… outwith a cultural institution. Independent curators can be described in essence as wild spirits (Schumpeter 1952 p. 340) and this research considers the cultural and creative values and opportunities that such a practitioner can bring to artists, communities, industry and audience …
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Transformative Museum Exhibition Design Management Framework: The Development of a Solution for Visitor Engagement Enhancement in Small Independent Museums in Thailand
… a shortage of professional staff and ‘amateur’ curators (often the collector themselves) who and might not hold any museum exhibition design or management knowledge. Additionally, underdevelopment of Thai museology knowledge generally is a great obstacle to improvement. Meanwhile, existing …
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Curatorial Interruption: Critical analysis of sources of decision-making bias in dress/fashion curators and examination of the impact of curatorial bias on wearer/object biography in worn clothing acquired by institutional collections in the United Kingdom
… an under-explored area in dress and fashion curatorship: how curatorial bias impacts the interpretation of wearer and object biography. This thesis responds to the growing focus on object biography and underrepresented histories in the discipline through examination of the experts charged …
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Art Criticism, Scholarly Interpretation, and Curatorial Intent: A Reassessment of the 1998 Jackson Pollock Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
… exhibition of artworks by Jackson Pollock. Curators Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel worked in an art historical context that had been significantly shaped by the early critical writings by Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg. The curators’ stated intention for the exhibition installation …
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Exhibiting Berthe Morisot after the Advent of Feminist Art History
… scholars and museum theorists maintain that curators virtually exclude their contributions. Attending to these recurrent concerns, this thesis charts shifts in emphases and inquiry in writing centered on Morisot to survey the extent to which curators convey new constructions of her artistic, …
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Metamorphosis
… into the arena of archaeologists, archivists and curators. Historians write, and re-write history privileging certain evidence while imposing specific agendas, to reshape history. Confronting history as a construction; I provoke viewers through a visual historical representation, unmasking …
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Arts Club Band : a gatekeeping analysis of how music journalists approach and understand their audiences
… journalists fulfill a final gatekeeping role as curators who supply knowledge and insight about music to the masses without the cultural implications of the popularized role of tastemakers. They think about their audiences in general, and they value their own goals and writing during their …
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Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections From Micro-Collections in Social Media
… (Uniform Resource Identifiers) hand-selected by curators. Curators produce high quality seeds by removing non-relevant URIs and adding URIs from credible and authoritative sources, but this ability comes at a cost: it is time consuming to collect these seeds. The result of this is a shortage of …
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The Collection Displays of the Ateneum Art Museum in 1915, 1931 and 1959
… an overview of the approach that the three Chief Curators who managed the Ateneum Art Museum between the years 1914–59 each had towards the collection display. Besides the photographs from the Finnish National Gallery’s Picture Collection, the thesis makes use of other documents (such as annual …
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Queering the Museum: Utopian Futurity in Contemporary Exhibitions
… beyond its tightly policed borders to include curators, viewers, artists, and artworks as key players in contemporary queer exhibition surveys in U.S.-based museums. Exhibition histories are not the sole domain of museum or curatorial studies, and are as much a part of art history as artists …
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Towards a decolonised archaeology : A case study of the national Museum of Namibia
… a sample comprising 6 participants: 2 museum curators, 2 former curators and 2 museum officials. The data collected from the interviews were presented in narrative form. The data analysis revealed that the archaeology collections from the museums that were considered were established during …
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The butterfly people, and their impacts on the creatures they love
… observing butterfly collectors, breeders, museum curators, photographers and conservationists was conducted, along with historical and biological research. The effect of humans on butterflies was also analyzed, and it was discovered that enthusiasts often have unexpected impacts on butterfly …
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Assessment of management and collection of zoological specimens at natural history museums in Malaysia
… the collection management was not because of the curators aptitude, but more to other factors that influencd the quality of collections management, such as funding and human resource. For the second objective, lack of awareness on biodiversity among Malaysian made them incapable to see the need to …
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Exploring the application of instrumental analysis for the conservation of textiles excavated in Greece
… and a puzzle for textile historians/curators. Conservators are often the intermediary<br/>between the objects they care for and the people for whom these objects are preserved. Analytical<br/>methods of investigation provide a means of increasing understanding of excavated textiles, …
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