Dear Colleagues, This will interest some of you working in the UK or nearby Europe. Best regards, Ken Friedman Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:20:22 +0000 From: Robert Zimmer <r.zimmer@GOLD.AC.UK> Subject: One-Week Intensive Course at Goldsmiths College --Apologies for Cross-Posting--- Goldsmiths, University of London announces new short course in Critical E-Museology A one-week intensive course for professionals in the cultural field combining cultural theory with practical, hands-on workshops. 17th February - 21st February 2002 Distance Learning through to 21st April The program focuses on the e-museum exploring the relationship between the material object of the traditional museum experience in relation to its electronic counterpart. While lectures and discussions will serve to articulate the contemporary debates around the e-museum, emphasis will be given to building a content-driven project during this short, yet creative week. Participants will go on to develop projects fully over a further period of 2 months when web sites will be handed in on April 21 and assessed. This is a pilot course, which will be recognized as part of requirements for a future MA in Critical E-Museology. Participants in the pilot course will receive a Postgraduate certificate in Critical E-Museology from Goldsmiths, the University of London. Syllabus: This new course aimed at museum and gallery professionals and professionals in the culture sector challenges the boundary between the concrete museum, the material referent and the electronic surrogate. If the museum experience can be seen as being as much about ideas, social interaction and personal narratives as it is about the original object, the E-museum needs to fulfill several functions. This short course will interrogate how museums make their screen debuts, and the various ways the digitally born object, the online archive, and the electronic surrogate have been authored by museums in the UK and internationally, as well as the impact of electronic architectures on the institution of the museum. Critical E-Museology combines both the theoretical and practical components of the e-museum and provides both a unique opportunity to examine contemporary debates as well as hands-on production that serve to articulate theory in the studio. This course emphasizes the correlation between cultural theory and contemporary practice and participants will have an opportunity to develop in-house project in a professional computer cluster with state of the art software. During the intensive week of study, participants will construct an e-museum of their own institution, or one of their own fictitious construction, including site map, implementation of logo and institutional identity, site navigational tools, for a content driven web site. The course takes place over five days with a separate theme for each day: - Monday: The e-museum as site of information and museum identity Tuesday: Informal learning paradigms in the museum, theatre and media Wednesday: The digitally born art object - Virtual Aura Thursday: The surrogate object and augmented reality Friday: The e-museum as institutional portal - bringing it all together This pilot course will be assessed by: I. Web project II. 4, 000 word report. Participants: Minimum 10, maximum 20 Cost: =A3500 For further details: Contact Professor Robert Zimmer, Head of Department of Computing, or Ms. Susan Hazan, guest lecturer Goldsmiths, University of London. e-mail: co901sjh@gold.ac.uk