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‘Things”: a case study in getting from accession to online display in 60 minutes

Author(s) -

Danny Birchall

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

electronic workshops in computing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

ISSN - 1477-9358

DOI - 10.14236/ewic/eva2011.6

Subject(s) - exhibition , photography , object (grammar) , visual arts , digital photography , world wide web , computer science , process (computing) , multimedia , art , artificial intelligence , operating system

This paper looks at the online presence of the exhibition 'Things' by artist Keith Wilson that took place at Wellcome Collection in October 2010. It examines the process by which objects were temporarily acquired from members of the public for an exhibition, and the way in which those images were digitised and managed to form the online element of the exhibition, using the photo sharing website Flickr. It looks at the role of student volunteers and their reaction to the use of technology, as well as the reactions of the public to the use of images online to represent their donated objects, and some alternatives to the conventional 'object' photography that museums employ. It draws the conclusion that images, and digital images in particular, form an increasingly important part of the museum paradigm at all levels.

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