MUSEUM INTERFACES

1. Museum Interfaces
Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural HeritageDOM E-5064
Digital Strategies for
MUSEUMS & Cultural Heritage
DOM E-5064
26.10.2015

2. Today, our new standard interface to
culture is a search engine
Manovich, L. (2008). “Introduction to Info-Aesthetics”. In T. Smith, O.
Enwezor, and N. Condee (Eds.) Antinomies of Art and Culture. Durham &
London: Duke University Press, 333-344.
“user interface is used for interaction environments
between humans and computing systems”

3. Interface Design for Museums?
negotiation boundary
reference area
communal space
Other…..
Hyperobject?

5. Multiplicity of Interfaces
Form: objects, paintings, text etc.
Visualization: Origins in different fields
Information: From multiple sources
Museum Information System
X
Y
Z
originate in

6. Knowledge: objects, paintings, text etc.
Representation: Expression
Mechanisms: management
Museum User Interfaces
X
Y
Z
generated from

7. Form
Representation
Mechanisms
designer, architect, artist
programmer, engineer
curator, museologist, archaeologist
Roles
X
Y
Z
Museum User Interfaces

8. Form
Representation
Mechanisms
X
Y
Z
negotiation boundary, reference area, communal space
a co-operative model
Museum User Interfaces

9. Form
Representation
Mechanisms
Museum User Interfaces
X
Y
Z
Physical, Performative, Graphical, Virtual, Tangible, Mixed…Other

10. Museum User Interfaces
Other
Physical: Personal/Guides/Participative
Performative: Re-enactment / Theatre
Graphical: Website, API, apps
Virtual: virtual models, AR
Tangible: Digital through natural forms
Mixed: Combinations of above…..
Traditional: Printed catalogs, booklets, posters

11. Museum User Interfaces
Other
Performative: Re-enactment / Theatre
Graphical: Website, API, apps
Virtual: virtual models, AR
Tangible: Digital through natural forms
MIXED
Traditional: Printed catalogs, booklets, posters
+
Physical: Personal/Guides/Participative

12. Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural HeritageDOM E-5064
Traditional: Printed catalogs, booklets, posters

13. Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural HeritageDOM E-5064
Graphical: Website, API, apps

14. Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural HeritageDOM E-5064
Graphical: Website, API, apps

15. Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural HeritageDOM E-5064
Graphical: Website, API, apps

16. Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural HeritageDOM E-5064
Graphical: Website, API, apps

17. Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural HeritageDOM E-5064
Tangible: Digital through natural forms

18. Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural HeritageDOM E-5064
Virtual: virtual models, AR

19. Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural HeritageDOM E-5064
Performative: Re-enactment / Theatre

20. Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural HeritageDOM E-5064
Physical: Personal/Guides/Participative

21. What is the ‘ideal’ Museum User Interface?

22. Collections
(Heritage/Contemporary Art/Other Artifacts)
Audience
(Communities of Practice/Communities of Interest/
Online Communities)
Process
(Collecting/Curating/Archiving/Conserving/Digitizing/
Exhibiting/Publishing/Copyrights…etc.)
Place & Space
(Building/Galleries/Neighborhood/Public Art…etc.)
EMMA
?
?
?
copyrighted
EMMA Club? /
Visitors?
An internal process that can
engage audience?
Public Art? Metro Art?
Forest-Nature?
Participatory Video archives?
Participatory Art hunters?
Critical Approaches /
Disruption?
Fanfiction?
Daily Artifacts?
Dreams?
Memes?
Metadata ?

23. Form
Representation
Mechanisms
X
Y
Z
Physical, Performative, Graphical, Virtual, Tangible, Mixed…Other
Audience ProcessPlace & Space
Collections
pre-visit visit post-visit
EMMA - Matrix

24. TASK (16.30 - 17.15)
1
Design a MIXED Interface for your collection/idea.
(graphical + ……..)
2
Present your sketch - Why, How & What? How does
participation work in your interface?
3
What kind of interface would work for EMMA?