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Re-envisioning Cyprus
No full textExhibition catalogue / edited volumeArtists and academics join forces in a common effort to “re-envision” Cyprus. The result is anedited volume and a photography & multimedia exhibition.
The authors of “Re-envisioning Cyprus” come from different disciplines – such asanthropology, social sciences, art history, literature, cultural theory and visual arts. They usevarious methods – some excavate past images, and some produce or comment on newones. They exploit all kinds of materials – such as press, studio or vernacular photos, statues,landmarks, urban constructions and religious spaces. What united them is first their wish tosee Cyprus with their own eyes and with their own minds, rather than through officialisinglenses, or narratives. Second, they are rather interested in photography, and how it can helpour conceptual understanding of the island.
The images each author has selected or produced will be included in the accompaniedexhibition. The exhibition will feature the work of visual artists from Cyprus and abroad andwill be opened by the Minister of Education and Culture, Mr. Andreas Demetriou onWednesday, December 8th at 8pm.
Participating Authors and Artists: Loucas Antoniou, Melita Couta, Johanna Diehl, AnandanaKapur, Phanos Kyriacou, Orestis Lambrou, Chrystalleni Loizidou, Peter Loizos, MiriamPaeslack, Haris Pellapaisiotis, Nicos Phillipou, Sondra Sainsbury, Stefanos Stefanides,Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Constantinos Taliotis, Demetris Taliotis and Ellene Tsangarides.
The exhibition is organized by the University of Nicosia (organizer) and the Cyprus Universityof Technology (partner) and is part of the celebration of the 50th year anniversary of Cyprus.The book is published by the University of Nicosia Press and will be available at theexhibition opening.
Editors/ Curators:Peter Loizos (London School of Economics)Nicos Philippou (University of Nicosia)Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert (Cyprus University of Technology)Government of Cyprus, University of Nicosi
Museums and Visitor Photography: Redefining the Visitor Experience
No full textMuseums and Visitor Photography is based on new research and innovative practice in some of the world's leading museums. This handbook will help museum and gallery professionals to understand, connect with, and sympathetically manage visitors' participation - both in the museum and online. "A primer in using photography to document, experience, and share." Jeff Gates, Lead Producer, New Media Initiatives, Smithsonian American Art Museum. "A cornucopia of the latest research. This book will become a standard reference on the topic. A great volume."Ed Rodley, Associate Director of Integrated Media, Peabody Essex Museum. "Much-needed context to inform photography policies, practices, and programs... an essential resource." Dr. Randy C. Roberts, Deputy Director, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis. "Fresh perspectives for museum and photography studies." Dr. Annebella Pollen, Principal Lecturer, History of Art and Design, University of Brighton. "A fascinating in-depth look at visitor interaction and photography within the museum setting." Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Document Scotland
Museums and Photography: Displaying Death
No full textMuseums and Photography adopts a strong theoretical approach in an in-depth investigation of the distinct approaches that different museums employ in displaying photographs of death, considering a broad range of anthropology, history, art, ethnographic, and science collections. These often interrelated approaches include: evidencing the past, death as spectacle, restoring anonymity and instigating empathy, and museums as agents of change. As well as offering fresh insights into the varied museum strategies implemented for the photographic display of death, the editors also critically engage with recent debates concerning the changing role of museums and museums' responsibility in handling an immensely controversial photographic genr
Photography and Cyprus: Time, Place & Identity
No full textFormerly a British colony, the island of Cyprus is now a divided country, where histories of political and cultural conflicts, as well as competing identities, remain contested. Cyprus provides the ideal case study for this innovative exploration, extensively illustrated, of how the practice of photography in relation to its political, cultural and economic contexts both contributes and responds to the formation of identity. International contributors, representing diverse disciplines, draw from photography theory, art history, anthropology and sociology to explore how the island and its people have been represented photographically. They reveal how the different gazes - colonial, political, gendered and within art photography - contribute to the creation of individual and national identities and, by extension, to the creation and re-creation of imagery of Cyprus as place.
The questions this book asks and the themes and arguments it follows apply also to other places characterized by their colonial heritage. The intriguing example of Cyprus thus serves as a fitting test-ground for current debates relating to photography, place and identity
Selecting Methodologies and Methods- Research Currents Interview: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert
No full textAn Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums is a practice-based guide that is designed to introduce qualitative research to established and upcoming museum professionals and increase their confidence to conduct this type of research.
Highlighting the work of researchers who are studying museums around the world, the book begins by explaining why there is a need for qualitative research in museums. Rowson Love and Randolph then go on to provide guidance, including theories and frameworks, on how to envision a qualitative research project that facilitates meaningful interpretation of visitor experiences. Chapters in the methodology section begin with descriptions of featured qualitative methodologies and will assist readers as they determine which are most appropriate for their projects and as they advocate for their research. The final section will prepare readers still further by demonstrating data analysis and reporting using the examples in the book
Mediating Difficult Heritage
No full textHow can emerging technologies display, reveal and negotiate difficult, dissonant, negative or undesirable heritage? Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how “awkward”, contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated – or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology.CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Emerging Technologies, Museums and Difficult Heritage
Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Alexandra Bounia and Antigone Heraclidou 1--
Part I: Revealing Missing or Underrepresented Narratives
Chapter 1. The Rosewood Heritage & VR Project: Engaging Difficult Histories with Digital Technologies 23--
Edward González-Tennant
Chapter 2. Preserving Queer Voices 42--
Sharon Webb
Chapter 3. Women’s Metadata, Semantic Web, Ontologies and AI: Potentials in Critically Enriching Carl Sahlin’s Industrial History Collection 65--
Anna Foka, Jenny Attemark and Fredrik Wahlberg
Part II: Eliciting Affective and Empathetic Responses
Chapter 4.New Realities for New Museum Experiences: Virtual and Augmented Realities for Difficult Heritage in Iraq 89--
Rozhen Kamal Mohammed-Amin
Chapter 5. Dimensions in Testimony: Affect, Holograms and New Curatorial Challenges 109--
Elena Stylianou
Chapter 6. ‘We Can’t Fix the Future If They don’t Recognise Our Past’: The Uses of Immersive Technologies for a Child Sexual Abuse Museum in Australia 130--
Lily Hibberd
Chapter 7. Experiencing the Anthropocene: The Contested Heritage of Climate Breakdown 151--
Colin Sterling
Part III: Creating a Sense of Presence, Immersion and Embodiment
Chapter 8. Designing Interactions: On the Use of Digital Technologies in the Musealisation of Difficult Built Heritage 175--
Francesca Lanz and Elena Montanari
Chapter 9. Dark Manoeuvres: Digitally Reincorporating the Marginalized Body in the Museum 197--
Lily Hibberd and Sarah Kenderdine
*This open access chapter is available thanks to the support of the Labratory for Experimental Museology (eM+).
Chapter 10. A Museum of Deepfakes? Potentials and Pitfalls for Deep Learning Technologies 218--
Jenny Kidd and Arran J. Rees
Afterword 233--
Alexandra Bounia, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Antigone Heraclidou
Index 239-
School Photographs. Suggestions for a Participatory Museology
No full textThis paper examines a new approach to the museum education, inspired by participatory museology and based on the ‘social use’ of photographs in the museum environment. The contemporary museology of a critical, post-modern and constructivist matrix poses the new idea of a museum intended as a place of meaning-making, narrative construction as well as social practices. Within this context, we adopt the categories of social objects and the participatory museum put forward by Simon (2010) in order to propose – in the light of the experience carried out in the Paolo & Ornella Ricca Museum of the School in the University of Macerata (Italy) – new educational projects and programs based on the ‘social potential’ of school photographs. As important part of the historical-educational heritage preserved in these museums but still undervalued from an educational perspective, photographic material in fact offers itself as the fulcrum of social and collaborative practices that can transform museums into places where visitors, students and communities can play a more active role
Re-envisioning Cyprus
No full textAlso in book with Title :Re-envisioning Cyprus. Nicosia: University of Nicosia Press, Loizos, P., Philippou, N., Stylianou-Lambert, T. (2010).Artists and academics join forces in a common effort to “re-envision” Cyprus. The result is anedited volume and a photography & multimedia exhibition.
The authors of “Re-envisioning Cyprus” come from different disciplines – such asanthropology, social sciences, art history, literature, cultural theory and visual arts. They usevarious methods – some excavate past images, and some produce or comment on newones. They exploit all kinds of materials – such as press, studio or vernacular photos, statues,landmarks, urban constructions and religious spaces. What united them is first their wish tosee Cyprus with their own eyes and with their own minds, rather than through officialisinglenses, or narratives. Second, they are rather interested in photography, and how it can helpour conceptual understanding of the island.
The images each author has selected or produced will be included in the accompaniedexhibition. The exhibition will feature the work of visual artists from Cyprus and abroad andwill be opened by the Minister of Education and Culture, Mr. Andreas Demetriou onWednesday, December 8th at 8pm.
Participating Authors and Artists: Loucas Antoniou, Melita Couta, Johanna Diehl, AnandanaKapur, Phanos Kyriacou, Orestis Lambrou, Chrystalleni Loizidou, Peter Loizos, MiriamPaeslack, Haris Pellapaisiotis, Nicos Phillipou, Sondra Sainsbury, Stefanos Stefanides,Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Constantinos Taliotis, Demetris Taliotis and Ellene Tsangarides.
The exhibition is organized by the University of Nicosia (organizer) and the Cyprus Universityof Technology (partner) and is part of the celebration of the 50th year anniversary of Cyprus.The book is published by the University of Nicosia Press and will be available at theexhibition opening.
Editors/ Curators:Peter Loizos (London School of Economics)Nicos Philippou (University of Nicosia)Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert (Cyprus University of Technology
The Archive of Unnamed Workers/ Shadows
No full textTheopisti Stylianou-Lambert & Alexia Achilleos
The Archive of Unnamed Workers, 2022, GAN-generated images on 35mm glass photographic slides (reversal film), dimensions varied
The Archive of Unnamed Workers attempts to negotiate the absences in archaeology-related photographic archives by creating numerous, fictional, portraits of Cypriot workers using Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) machine learning technology. Photographic archives by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition, John Linton Myres, and Luigi Palma di Cesnola, became the source material for these new, machine-made, portraits of Cypriot workers at archaeological sites. The final images are completely artificially created, and do not resemble any real workers. Instead, they pay tribute to the countless and unphotographed workers who contributed to Cypriot archaeology but who remain unnamed and unacknowledged. The artificial intelligence-generated portraits were subsequently transferred to 35mm glass photographic slides (reversal film), a technology widely used in the mid-20th century, which is almost obsolete today
First International Conference, RISE IMET 2021, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 2–4, 2021, Proceedings
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