The Library’s prompt posed a series of questions, including, “what are the alternative possibilities for display and engagement when working with digital cultural heritage?” We have attempted to think of ways to diversify our displays, and to use as much technology as possible. We have designed an x-shaped structure for the centre of the Boardroom […]

It is important to us that our exhibition move beyond display and include interactive elements.  We had spoken in our October 2nd class with Jen Ross and Mairi Lafferty about the difference between restricted interaction (still curated by the institution) and full interaction (organic and unplanned), as well as the ethics of co-creation and co-production […]

On Friday October 18th we visited the National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive at Kelvinhall, and the Glasgow Women’s Library. At the MIA, Sheena explained the history of the branch, and showed us how to use the catalogue.  I was interested to learn that the MIA collects home movie footage as well as professionally […]

For my case study I’m looking at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s ArtLens Gallery system.  The system contains 4 interactive components: ArtLens Wall, ArtLens Studio, ArtLens Exhibition, and the user-downloadable ArtLens App.  All portions of the ArtLens Gallery interface draw from a centralized database of images containing large high-resolution images (photographed with cameras ranging between […]

Hi all, My name is Meg Dolan.  That’s me on the left there in my Official Back To Uni Again (Again) 2019 photo. I’m in the Collections and Curating Practices research Masters course at the University of Edinburgh, and if you’re reading this, you probably are too. I sort of meandered my way towards this […]