‘The Biscuit Town’: Digital Practice, Spatiality and Discoverability in Reading’s Heritage Sector

‘The Biscuit Town’: Digital Practice, Spatiality and Discoverability in Reading’s Heritage Sector

This paper focuses on two artistic research projects created in collaboration with museums in Reading, UK; the hybrid-media installation 'The First World War in Biscuits' (2014), shown in a ‘white cube’ gallery in Reading Museum and the online resource 'War Child: Meditating on an Arc...

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Main Author: Teresa Murjas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-02-01
Series:Body, Space & Technology Journal
Subjects:
digital practice
heritage sector
discoverability
archives
history from below
testimony
conflict
Online Access:https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/337
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Summary:This paper focuses on two artistic research projects created in collaboration with museums in Reading, UK; the hybrid-media installation 'The First World War in Biscuits' (2014), shown in a ‘white cube’ gallery in Reading Museum and the online resource 'War Child: Meditating on an Archive' (2016): www.war-child-archive.com. The paper analyses approaches taken during the projects’ development to matters of spatial and digital curation. It considers how they engaged with the idea of collaboratively-produced ‘histories from below’ and with the cultural heritage sector priority of discoverability. It concludes by noting some emerging questions connected with the projects’ longer-term physical and virtual materialisation.
ISSN:1470-9120

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