‘The Biscuit Town’: Digital Practice, Spatiality and Discoverability in Reading’s Heritage Sector

‘The Biscuit Town’: Digital Practice, Spatiality and Discoverability in Reading’s Heritage Sector

This paper focuses on two artistic research projects created in collaboration with museums in Reading, UK; the hybrid-media installation 'The First World War in Biscuits' (2014), shown in a ‘white cube’ gallery in Reading Museum and the online resource 'War Child: Meditating on an Arc...

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Main Author: Teresa Murjas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-02-01
Series:Body, Space & Technology Journal
Subjects:
digital practice
heritage sector
discoverability
archives
history from below
testimony
conflict
Online Access:https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/337
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spelling doaj-f30a587cf0e7408683b7e5e5f971f6f62020-11-25T02:56:03ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesBody, Space & Technology Journal1470-91202020-02-0119110.16995/bst.337375‘The Biscuit Town’: Digital Practice, Spatiality and Discoverability in Reading’s Heritage SectorTeresa Murjas0University of ReadingThis paper focuses on two artistic research projects created in collaboration with museums in Reading, UK; the hybrid-media installation 'The First World War in Biscuits' (2014), shown in a ‘white cube’ gallery in Reading Museum and the online resource 'War Child: Meditating on an Archive' (2016): www.war-child-archive.com. The paper analyses approaches taken during the projects’ development to matters of spatial and digital curation. It considers how they engaged with the idea of collaboratively-produced ‘histories from below’ and with the cultural heritage sector priority of discoverability. It concludes by noting some emerging questions connected with the projects’ longer-term physical and virtual materialisation.https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/337digital practiceheritage sectordiscoverabilityarchiveshistory from belowtestimonyconflict
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‘The Biscuit Town’: Digital Practice, Spatiality and Discoverability in Reading’s Heritage Sector
Body, Space & Technology Journal
digital practice
heritage sector
discoverability
archives
history from below
testimony
conflict
author_facet Teresa Murjas
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title ‘The Biscuit Town’: Digital Practice, Spatiality and Discoverability in Reading’s Heritage Sector
title_short ‘The Biscuit Town’: Digital Practice, Spatiality and Discoverability in Reading’s Heritage Sector
title_full ‘The Biscuit Town’: Digital Practice, Spatiality and Discoverability in Reading’s Heritage Sector
title_fullStr ‘The Biscuit Town’: Digital Practice, Spatiality and Discoverability in Reading’s Heritage Sector
title_full_unstemmed ‘The Biscuit Town’: Digital Practice, Spatiality and Discoverability in Reading’s Heritage Sector
title_sort ‘the biscuit town’: digital practice, spatiality and discoverability in reading’s heritage sector
publisher Open Library of Humanities
series Body, Space & Technology Journal
issn 1470-9120
publishDate 2020-02-01
description This paper focuses on two artistic research projects created in collaboration with museums in Reading, UK; the hybrid-media installation 'The First World War in Biscuits' (2014), shown in a ‘white cube’ gallery in Reading Museum and the online resource 'War Child: Meditating on an Archive' (2016): www.war-child-archive.com. The paper analyses approaches taken during the projects’ development to matters of spatial and digital curation. It considers how they engaged with the idea of collaboratively-produced ‘histories from below’ and with the cultural heritage sector priority of discoverability. It concludes by noting some emerging questions connected with the projects’ longer-term physical and virtual materialisation.
topic digital practice
heritage sector
discoverability
archives
history from below
testimony
conflict
url https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/337
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