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Number fascination : A reflection on data and measuring
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Konstnärligt arbeteabstract
- Number fascinationA reflection on data and measuringAn exhibition is open from 3rd of May until 2nd of October 2022.Our lives are full of numbers and metrics. The minutes you need to boil an egg, the temperature outside, the hours until the end of the workday, the hourly pay rate of your job, the recommended amount of salt in your daily diet, the number of likes on your latest social media post. Numbers help to make sense of what we think, feel and know. Everything can be measured, once we learn how to count.Since the 16th century, Europeans have become increasingly obsessed with collecting data. The ability to describe the world quantitatively gave way to modern science and the hope that we could understand how things are.When you count things, you probably feel achievement and success: the number of followers you have on social media, the clicks on your latest post, the number of steps you have taken this day. But to know what decisions you need to make, good metrics and a clear understanding of what is being measured are needed. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Or can you?This exhibition is part of Me-Mind, a Creative Europe project that aims to measure and visualise the effect of culture. Throughout the process, we’ve come up with great questions about what measuring and counting mean, their challenges and the effect they can have on people. We’re sharing these thoughts in the form of an exhibition.Please ask yourself about your relationship with data as you are going through the sections of the exhibition. And when you reach the last one, where we present the results of our investigation, please ask questions and be critical of what we have developed. All data sets should be questioned by as many minds as possible.
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- Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Pille, et al.
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Producing a Media-Rich Permanent Exhibition for the Estonian National Museum as Arts-Based research
- 2021
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Ingår i: Comunicazioni Sociali. - : Vita e Pensiero. - 0392-8667 .- 1827-7969. ; :1, s. 128-135
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article explores how academic and arts-based research have been combined in curating the contemporary, media-rich exhibition The Time of Freedoms, which is part of the permanent exhibition of the Estonian National Museum. The article shows how the success of exhibition-making practice depends on the skill of switching codes from the more strictly procedure-oriented sociological/ethnological, to an arts-based approach that relies on being processual and performative. After contextualizing the exhibition and positioning the curatorial team, the article discusses three parts/exhibits of The Time of Freedoms exhibition: The Sacrifice Stone and ATM, the Synthesiser of Freedom and the Stories about Freedom. These vignettes are then used to discuss the roles of arts-based research in this exhibition design process and outcome.
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- Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Pille, et al.
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The museum as an arena for cultural citizenship : Exploring modes of engagement for audience empowerment
- 2018
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Ingår i: The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication. - London : Routledge. - 9781138676305 - 9781315560168 ; , s. 143-158
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The museum as an arena for cultural citizenship: exploring modes of engagement for audience empowerment. The article looks at museums as democratic institutions from the perspective of cultural citizenship and cultural representation as well as investigating the notions of participation and engagement. Located in the context of new museology, the article looks at the audience engagement from the museums perspective and investigates participatory and communicative choices for the museum and how the different modes of engagement can be implemented in museums by bringing numerous examples from practice. It also briefly describes barriers to participation in the museum organisation. In investigating the visitors/public's perspective, the article discusses how people switch between the different roles in museums and asks a question about motivations for participating.
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- Runnel, Pille, et al.
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Why is This Exhibit Digital? : Dimensions of Digital Exhibits in the Museum Space
- 2021
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Ingår i: Emerging Technologies and the Digital Transformation of Museums and Heritage Sites. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030836467 - 9783030836474 ; , s. 47-60
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract. Digital objects have controversial roles in the exhibition space [1, 2],ranging from being a vague ‘must be’ element at the exhibitions signifying theircontemporaneity, to being a crucially important design tool shaping museumexperience. Departing from the museum communication studies, this articleseeks to provide an analytical framework about the digital exhibits within theexhibitions. Based on an iterative reflexive process whereby the empirical datain the form of exhibits at the Estonian National Museum and literature are in acircular dialogue with each other, we look at the potential role of the digitalexhibits by using analytical dimensions, which have been strategically, althoughnot always consciously utilized in the exhibition development. We start with 1)Spatiality, involving potentials and limitations of space-bound digital elements,and 2) Temporality, concerning dilemma between stability and changeability ofthe content. Next, approaching digital exhibits from the perspective of 3)private-public dimension as well as 4) single-multi-user aspects allows for abetter understanding of the previously discussed sociability dimension [1, 3]. 5)Increasingly, narrating the past depends on the fusion of fictional-documentaryformats. Finally, considering the critical perspective, we will also look at thedimensions of 6) authoritative-collaborative voice and 7) openness or determinednessof the interpretation. Outlining some of the theoretical underpinningsthrough concrete examples, we argue for the heuristic value of these dimensionsin understanding visitor engagement.
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- Addo, Giuseppina, et al.
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Encoding object-oriented democracy in Swedish museums : implementing method of the thing in exhibition-making
- 2023
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Ingår i: Museum Management and Curatorship. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0964-7775 .- 1872-9185. ; 38:1, s. 76-91
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As museums face conflicting demands on maintaining and caringfor their collections, opening for visitor engagement, and beingmore inclusive in their practice, new approaches are needed tomuseum work. This article introduces a democratic and inclusiveapproach focusing on the relational properties of the artefact–the Method of the Thing (Tigenes Metode). We use interviewswith different museum professionals in Sweden. The methodallows knowledge to emerge from the convergence of differentactors within and outside the museum who negotiate theirexpertise, (professional) roles and technical infrastructure of themuseum by foregrounding the object rather than the curators’story. We use the encoding/decoding model to discuss thestrengths and weaknesses of the method where centring theobject allows for a process of democratisation and polyvocality totake shape, thus allowing divergent narratives to emerge.
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- Andersson, Magnus, et al.
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Mediation and Place : The Sharpening and Weakening of Boundaries
- 2019
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Ingår i: Communication as the Intersection of the Old and the New. - 9783948077037 ; , s. 105-114
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter starts off in communication geography and discuss the dynamic relationship between media and place. The main argument is that processes of mediation are central to the meaning of place although without determination; mediations may both strengthen and weaken boundaries of place. This argument is based on an interdisciplinary double theorization where the concept of place as well as media are elaborated. Hence, place is here understood as composed of social relations and infused with meaning and power, while media are considered broadly, including infrastructures, representations and communication practices.
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Communication as the intersection of the old and the new
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book, the fourteenth in the Researching and Teaching Communication Book Series launched in 2006, stems from the communal intellectual work of the lecturers, the students and the alumni of the 2018 edition of the European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School (SuSo).The book gives an account of the plurality of research interests and analytical perspectives that the SuSo community values as its main asset. What was especially apparent in this year’s cluster of contributions is that our field of study integrates a wide variety of media technologies (ranging from old to new), demonstrating that contemporary societies are not characterized by the replacement of technologies, but by the always unique articulations, integrations and intersections of old and new. The book is structured in four sections: 1) Theories and Concepts, 2) Media and the Construction of Social Reality, 3) Mediatizations, 4) Media, Health and Sociability. Contributors are: Fatoş Adiloğlu, Magnus Andersson, Nico Carpentier, Xu Chen, Vaia Doudaki, Edgard Eeckman, Timo Harjuniemi, Kari Karppinen, Alyona Khaptsova, Ludmila Lupinacci, Fatma Nazlı Köksal, Ondrej Pekacek , Michael Skey, Piia Tammpuu, Ruben Vandenplas, Konstanze Wegmann and Karsten D. Wolf . The book additionally contains abstracts of the doctoral projects that were discussed at the 2018 European Media Communication Doctoral Summer School.
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