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

尽管现在有大量资金用于博物馆和画廊制作物品和材料的数字副本，但博物馆工作的核心仍然是在物理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；将物品的历史或文化解释转化为可以在参观者探索画廊空间时阅读的物理安排。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占据一席之地，这些信息点增加了玻璃盒和印刷标签。无所不在的计算的提高和数字技术的可负担性的提高无疑会在博物馆环境中看到智能媒体整合的进一步发展。如果这些技术要取得成功，并提高博物馆参观的体验，它们就不能成为附带表演或仅仅是博物馆指南的延伸。同样，数字媒体在博物馆背景下的整合所提出的问题不仅在博物馆展示领域，而且在计算机用户界面的研究和设计领域都有影响。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一个中心问题，特别是在迅速扩展的无处不在和嵌入式计算领域。博物馆为研究界面技术提供了独特的环境，因为游客被要求阅读和与“面向对象”的展示互动的复杂方式，以及博物馆与游客交流的多方面方式；通过每个物体和物体组合所代表的信息层以及公共博物馆空间提供的讨论背景。在“话语形成”的标题下，我们提议举办三个研讨会，从广义上讲，这些研讨会将研究数字技术与博物馆空间物理环境的整合。菲茨威廉博物馆将被用作场地和案例研究，并提出，作为研究文件，研讨会将导致新的合作和潜在的新研究项目。

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.