Museum Media

List of Illustrations ix
 
Editor xiii
 
General Editors xiv
 
Contributors xv
 
Acknowledgments xvii
 
General Editors' Preface to Museum Studies and the International Handbooks of Museum Studies xix
 
Museum Media: An Introduction xxvii
Michelle Henning
 
Part I The Museum as Medium 1
 
1 Museums and Media Archaeology: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst 3
Michelle Henning
 
2 Media Archaeology of/in the Museum 23
Andrew Hoskins and Amy Holdsworth
 
3 Museums and the Challenge of Transmediation: The Case of Bristol's Wildwalk 43
Nils Lindahl Elliot
 
4 Mediatized Memory: Video Testimonies in Museums 69
Steffi de Jong
 
5 Visible and Invisible Institutions: Cinema in the French Art Museum 95
Jenny Chamarette
 
6 The Museum as TV Producer: Televisual Form in Curating, Commissioning, and Public Programming 121
Maeve Connolly
 
7 SimKnowledge: What Museums Can Learn from Video Games 145
Seth Giddings
 
Part II Mediation and Immersion 165
 
8 The Life of Things 167
Ivan Gaskell
 
9 Lighting Practices in Art Galleries and Exhibition Spaces, 1750-1850 191
Alice Barnaby
 
10 There's Something in the Air: Sound in the Museum 215
Rupert Cox
 
11 Aesthetics and Atmosphere in Museums: A Critical Marketing Perspective 235
Brigitte Biehl-Missal and Dirk vom Lehn
 
12 Museums, Interactivity, and the Tasks of "Exhibition Anthropology" 259
Erkki Huhtamo
 
13 Keeping Objects Live 279
Fiona Candlin
 
Part III Design and Curating in the Media Age 303
 
14 Total Media 305
Peter Higgins
 
15 From Object to Environment: The Recent History of Exhibitions in Germany and Austria 327
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen [Translated by Mark Miscovich]
 
16 Museums as Spaces of the Present: The Case for Social Scenography 349
Beat Hachler [Translated by Niall Hoskin]
 
17 (Dis)playing the Museum: Artifacts,

MICHELLE HENNING is Professor in Photography and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is a practicing photographer and designer, and has written widely on museums, media, and photography in her books Museums, Media and Cultural Theory and Photography: The Unfettered Image.