Syndicate: Conf.: MUSEUMS & THE WEB 2001

["George(s) Lessard" <media@web.net>]

SEATTLE, WA
March 14 - 17, 2001
Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers

MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 2001

Now in its fifth year, MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 2001 will review the
state of the web in arts, culture, and heritage. In a special
Opening Plenary, Cary Karp and Ken Hamma will talk about the
genesis and future of the .museum TLD. They kick off three days of
presentations featuring reports from over 25 countries, including

Opening Plenary
A TOP LEVEL DOMAIN FOR MUSEUMS
Cary Karp, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden
Ken Hamma, J. Paul Getty Museum, USA
The Museum Domain Management Association (MUSEDOMA) with its two
foundermembers the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in
Paris and the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles submitted an
application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) for the establishment of a museum top level domain
(TLD). In November 2000, ICANN approved the new TLD.

Session: Digital Art
NEW MEDIA CURATING: SITES OF CHANGE
Sarah Cook, University of Sunderland, UK
Beryl Graham, University of Sunderland, UK
Curating artworks using new media (including CD-ROMs, interactive
installations, Virtual reality, and the Internet) brings up
challenges and changes for concepts of presentation, reception and
collection.

APPROACHES TO INTERNET ART PRESERVATION AND ACCESS: THE RHIZOME
ARTBASE
Jennifer Crowe, Rhizome.org, USA
This report on the progress of Rhizome.org's  ArtBase will present
new protocols and applications for the description, archiving,
preservation, and retrieval of Internet art in an online context.

BEYOND THE MUSEUMS' WALLS - A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF EMERGING
APPROACHES TO MUSEUM WEB-BASED EDUCATION
Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia
"As part of the research undertaken to develop Australian Museums
On Line's new Education Gateway, I have spent considerable time
examining why and how museums are using the Internet for education
outreach. In this paper I will explore these reasons as well as
the diversity of emerging on-line education expressions...."

Session: Accessibility
ACCESSIBILITY TECHNIQUES FOR MUSEUM WEB SITES
Susan Anable, The Dayton Art Institute, USA
Adam Alonzo, Wright State University, USA
Like other public institutions, museums strive to make their
facilities accessible to people with disabilities, yet these same
patrons may be hindered in their use of museum Web sites due to
electronic accessibility barriers. This presentation will
demonstrate how access was a primary design factor in the Virtual
Museum Tour, part of the Web site of The Dayton Art Institute.
Developed in collaboration with Wright State University.

ART TALES: A STORY OF COLLABORATION AND INTEGRATION
Robin Davis, Community Discovered, USA
Ponteir Sackrey, National Museum of Wildlife Art, USA
Empowering K-12 teachers to create meaningful learning experiences
which will integrate art and technology in a constructivist
setting -- the goal of a collaboration between the National Museum
of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Community
Discovered in Omaha, Nebraska -- will be discussed in this
presentation.

Session: Closing Plenary
THE VIRTUAL AURA
Susan Hazan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
This paper evaluates the different ways that museums are
responding to life on the net, and will look to three models of
museum web-sites, the documentation of traditional collections
through online databases, the virtual museum with no concrete
counterpart to resonate the online experience and the
proliferation of web based contemporary art. This attempt to map
out the different ways that museums formulate
their identity on the net will address the notion of the lost aura
or perhaps the emergence of new cultural phenomena, the virtual
aura.

Session: Closing Plenary
EXTENDING THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM: INTEGRATING MUSEUM WITH OTHER KINDS
OF WEBSITES
George Landow, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Museums face problems letting people know what they have and
providing a context so people can understand them and their
importance. George Landow, a pioneer in hyperlinking, runs 3
interlinked websites totalling more than 40,000 docs and images,
two of which are recommended by NEH, the ministries of education
in France, Ireland, and BBC. These sites (the Victorian and
Postcolonial Webs) contain thousands of documents and images from
real and virtual museums. Strategies for integrating museum
content into such thematic webs will be discussed.

For information about many more presentations as well as
registration information, visit
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/
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Note that the .museum TLD will be detailed in an upcoming issue
of Arts Wire CURRENT
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