Hello murph the surf! I once knew a murph the surf and I am curious if you
are one in the same. Are you located in Centennial, WY.? Just thought it
would be interesting to find you here on the list! Have a great day and
good luck to you whether you are the murph the surf from my past, or another
version that has found his way into my present.
Take
care, Kathy
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From: murph the surf <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.museum-l
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, January 10, 1999 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: Web databases - the other consideration
>I thought this talk by Peter Weibel last spring was interesting in relation
>to the the discussion about putting museum information on the Internet. He
>points out that this defensive attitude is probably not a good one in terms
>of the mission of the museum, which is to be a support system not just for
>the objects but also for the world outside the physical museum. He's
>talking about Art museums and the prospect that our concept of the art
>object has in many ways already become "virtual" and less dependent on
>physical manifestations. But I think there is something to consider in
>terms of historical objects as well.
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>murph
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>From "The Virtual Museum, Beyond the White Cube: Art Any Time Any Place"
>Virtual Museums on the Internet
>Salzburg, Austria
>Peter Weibel, Director, ZKM
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>The virtual museum therefore is a renewal of the support systems provided
>by what we used to call a museum. Consequently, one could say that the
>virtual museum on the Internet is in fact closer to the original idea of a
>museum, or the classical definition of a museum. The museum, as perceived
>by the Greeks, was a forum for discourse on collected information, an
>archive, a research place, a place of knowledge, and ended up also being a
>place for the production of knowledge. The post-modern problem of any
>museum is its relation to the masses because today, each museum has to
>legitimate itself by the number of its visitors. It has to stand as a
>spectacle in order to attract as many people as possible. The problem of
>the museum's relation to the masses is traditionally resolved by presenting
>knowledge to the spectator as something sacred. When people walk through a
>museum today, they often don't see art. They often have no idea what they
>see and look at the art like tourists.
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>With the creation of the virtual museum, we can find better ways of
>treating the masses. The masses are an accumulation of members, and each
>member is an individual. In the case of the virtual museum, individuals can
>enter the museum from any place at any time, stay as long as they want and
>look at a piece as long as they want. The challenge for the museums of the
>future is to follow the idea of the museum of modern art -- which is
>founded on the spirit of modernism and dedicated to design, film,
>architecture, sculpture, painting, typography, etc. -- and to make all of
>these elements and programs available in the same space. This couldn't
>possibly be done in the physical museum. When the modern museum defined
>itself as a multimedia museum -- meaning that it devoted itself to showing
>and collecting all fields of the arts -- the form of presentation lagged
>behind. When a museum is in fact multidisciplinary, it has to include all
>forms of science and technology and add a multifunctional and multicultural
>variety to the traditional perception. The modern museum has mainly shown
>the white cube of work from Europe and North America and has ignored many
>other forms of art. We can now move beyond the white cube and show any art,
>at any time and in any place. The virtual museum on the Net is up to now
>the very best model for a multifunctional, multidisciplinary,
>multicultural, multimedia museum.
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>The complete text: http://www.arch.at/museumvms/topics/frames_weibel.html
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>Dept. of Art and Art Professions
>School of Education, New York University
>http://www.nyu.edu/education/art/visartsadmin/infosystems
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