Discursive Formations - Place, Narrative and Digitality in the Museums of the Future

尽管现在为博物馆和美术馆提供了大量资金来制作物品和材料的数字复制品，但博物馆工作的核心仍然是在实际地点展示和安排实物。博物馆的展示艺术包括利用空间作为交流的媒介；将对物品的历史或文化解释转化为物理安排，供参观者探索画廊空间时阅读。然而，即使在这里，数字技术也开始以电子指南和数字信息点的形式找到一席之地，这些信息可以增强玻璃箱和打印标签。随着普适计算的兴起和数字技术负担能力的提高，无疑将看到智能媒体在博物馆背景下的整合方面的进一步发展。如果这些技术要取得成功并增强参观博物馆的体验，它们就不能成为旁观者或仅仅是博物馆指南的延伸。同样，在博物馆背景下整合数字媒体提出的问题不仅对博物馆陈列界有影响，而且对计算机用户界面的研究和设计也有影响。将数字媒体整合到物理环境中所创造的可能性是新技术研究的核心问题，特别是在快速扩展的泛在和具体化计算领域。博物馆为学习界面技术提供了独特的背景，因为参观者被要求阅读和与面向对象的陈列进行互动的复杂方式，以及博物馆与参观者交流的多方面方式；既通过每个对象和对象的集合代表的信息层，以及由通常是公共的博物馆空间提供的讨论环境。我们建议举办三个研讨会，从广义上讲，将调查数字技术与博物馆空间的物理环境的整合。Fitzwilliam博物馆将被用作场地和案例研究，据提议，讲习班以及研究文件将导致新的合作和潜在的新的研究项目。

Despite the significant funds now being made available for museums and galleries to make digital copies of objects and materials, the core of the museums work is still in the display and arrangement of real objects in physical locations. The art of display in museums involves using space as a medium for communication; translating historical or cultural interpretations of objects into physical arrangements which can be read as the visitor explores the gallery space. Even here, however, digital technology is beginning to find a place in the form of e-guides and digital information points which augment the glass cases and printed labels. The raise of ubiquitous computing and the increased affordability of digital technologies will doubtless see further developments in the integration of smart-media in the museum context. If these technologies are to be successful and enhance the experience of museum visits, they must not become side-shows or simply extensions of the museum guidebook. Similarly the questions raised by the integration of digital media in museum contexts have implications not only in the world of museum display but also in the research and design of computer user interfaces. The possibilities created by integrating digital media into physical contexts is a central concern of research into new technology, particularly in the rapidly expanding fields of ubiquitous and embodied computing. Museums provide unique contexts for the study interface technology because of the complex way in which visitors are asked to read and interact with the 'object oriented' displays and the multifaceted way a museum communicates to the visitor; both through the layers of information each object and assemblage of objects represents and the contexts for discussion provided by the often communal museum space.Under the title 'Discursive Formations' we are proposing holding three workshops which will, broadly speaking, investigate the integration of digital technologies into the physical context of the museum space. The Fitzwilliam Museum will be used as the venue and case study and it is propose that, as well as a research document, the workshops will lead to new collaborations and potential new research projects.