As new technologies become an increasingly important part of everyday life they beg new questions for museum presentation and exhibition design. This symposium will consider these questions in relationship to the BGC Focus Gallery exhibition The Interface Experience. This exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to gain a better understanding of the design and material experience of computers by encouraging them to ask personal questions about how their interaction with these devices has influenced their lives. Including presentations by both curators of technology and technologists working to create compelling exhibition experiences about technology, the symposium will open up conversations about how technology fits into the study and display of material culture in the twenty-first century and the role of computing interfaces in those areas.
April 6: Experiencing the Interface
Kimon Keramidas
Assistant Professor and Director of the
Digital Media Lab
Welcome and Introduction
Deborah G. Douglas
Director of Collections and Curator of
Science and Technology, MIT Museum
Tech’s Museum/Museum Tech: Challenges for Presenting Technology at MIT
Jonathan Dahan
Developer
Dusting Off the Stacks
Panel Discussion
Deborah G. Douglas, Jonathan Dahan, Kimon Keramidas, Jennifer Foley, Koven J.
Smith
April 7: Digital Interpretation: Screens and Devices as Didactic Media
Kimon Keramidas
Assistant Professor and Director of the Digital Media Lab
Welcome and Introduction
Jennifer Foley
Director of Interpretation, Department of Education and Interpretation, Cleveland Museum of Art
“Oh, what’s this button do?” Connecting Spaces, People, and Collections
Koven J. Smith
Director of Digital Adaptation, Blanton Museum of Art
Becoming Authentically Digital at the Blanton Museum of Art
Focus Gallery Presentations
Kimon Keramidas
Assistant Professor and Director of the Digital Media Lab
David Jaffee
Professor, Head of New Media Research
Panel Discussion
Jennifer Foley, Koven J. Smith, Kimon Keramidas, David Jaffee, Deborah G. Douglas, Jonathan Dahan
