Overview
- Offers new insights into issues of representation in the digitization of art
- Critically examines the roles of museum and archives in the digital age
- Re-examines the intricate relations between sight and site in visual media
Part of the book series: Digital Culture and Humanities (DICUHU, volume 5)
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About this book
This volume presents a broad coverage of theoretical issues that deal with digital culture, representation and ideology in art and museums, and other cultural sites, offering new insights into issues of representation in the digitization of art. It critically examines the roles of museum and archives in the digital age and reexamines the intricate relations between sight and site in art, museums, exhibitions, theme parks, theatre performances, music videos, and films. The collection represents a multidisciplinary approach to the complex issues underlying the advent of technologies and digital culture. The rise of visual culture since the twentieth century can be accounted for by the advent of technology in film, TV, museum exhibitions, and the wide use of websites, but it can also be understood as a paradigmatic shift toward representation as a visual means to interpret culture, with new understandings of the site-sight dilemma and the co-implications in related tensions. Complicating the issue of representation is the rise of digital culture, as digital sites replace actual physical sites. This book explores how the virtual has replaced the actual, and in what ways, and to what effects, the digital has displaced the physical. With contributions by museum curators, communications scholars, visual artists, theatre artists, filmmakers, literary critics, and historians, this volume is of appeal to academics and graduate students in information science, art, media, performance, literary and cultural studies, and history.
“The book binds together different concepts such as site, sight and digitalization in a very original way. It convincingly gathers contributions from academics and practitioners, artists and museum specialists. The chapters are theoretically well-founded, show an interesting breadth of content and are also dealing with current developments.”
— Monika Gänssbauer, Professor of Chinese and Head of the Institute of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden
— Jack Leong, Associate Dean of Research and Open Scholarship, York University Libraries, Toronto, Canada
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Kwok-kan TAM is Chair Professor of English and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He is former Head and current member of the International Ibsen Committee, University of Oslo. His recent publications include the books Ibsen, Power and the Self: Postsocialist Chinese Experimentations in Stage Performance and Film (2019); Chinese Ibsenism: Reinventions of Women, Class and Nation (2019); and The Englishized Subject: Postcolonial Writings in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia (2019). He edits the Springer book series Digital Culture and Humanities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sight as Site in the Digital Age
Book Subtitle: Art, the Museum, and Representation
Editors: Kwok-kan Tam
Series Title: Digital Culture and Humanities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9209-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9208-7Published: 31 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9211-7Due: 03 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-9209-4Published: 30 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2520-8640
Series E-ISSN: 2520-8659
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 239
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Digital Humanities, Performing Arts, Audio-Visual Culture, Arts, Digital/New Media, Intercultural Communication