Digital Object Lessons and their precursors

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Why does Geismar situate digital display in long-standing processes of mediation, technological mimesis, and objectification?

One of the key lessons of museum anthropology and museum studies as academic disciplines is the deceptively simple point that museums are sites that produce as well as represent knowledge about the world. .....

What is the museology tension between spectacular qualities of object and contextualization within knowledge schemes?

It's about the difference in seeing a museum as either a well arranged collection of labels illustrated by specimen or starting with the specimen and from there moving to the labels.

How does corporeal mimesis produce a different kind of knowledge than spectatorship?

This bodily perspective allows us to relocate our preoccupation with the visual in museums, and in relation to digital culture, in a more complex sensuous and experiential domain. By imagining our own capacity to inhabit the position of the object.
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How do the Nalik vs Māori offer contrasting cultural understandings of digital?

For the Nalik, the digital reproduction/representation of an object is not the same as the object, while for the māori, each material context is considered as equal to any other.

How are the Reciprocol Research Network & Mukurtu’ specifically indigenous databases?

Placing the burden of responsibility onto native peoples within museum collaborations

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