Zugl.: Wien, Universiẗat, Diss., 2004.

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This case study explores the collaborative conversation between curators and educators in the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, and how these conversations affect didactic texts in the museum galleries. By situating the Blanton Museum in a larger historical framework, the focus of this study maps out the historical perspectives informing the museum during a pivotal integration of collecting areas, including Latin American and American modern and contemporary collections, and explores how the Blanton Museum attempted to facilitate learning and meaning-making for the visitor through didactic wall texts. / text

In Western Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, collections were created as repositories of art, technology, ethnographic curiosities and natural wonders. Collecting first became a widespread practice among Italian humanists of the late Renaissance who, influenced by the work of Pliny, were driven by the desire to understand the world through the acquisition of universal knowledge. The physical configuration of such encyclopedic projects could be found in the museums created to organize and assimilate the explosion of knowledge experienced during this period.This thesis addresses the social significance of accumulating an encyclopedic collection in the form of a large, public art museum at the turn of the twentieth century, discusses the Rudolfine Kunstkammer contextualized in a broad history of collecting prior to and including the Renaissance and compares the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Kunstkammer in terms of how similarly or differently the collections communicated a combination of political, social, economic and cultural power.

This project utilized a form of arts based educational research described as analog hypertext to develop interpretative material representing multiple critical, theoretical, and disciplinary perspectives on objects in a university art museum’s object study gallery. Drawing on scholars’ recommendations for postcolonial interpretation of non-Western art, the project created a web of information, which simultaneously revealed and critiqued the underlying ideologies and power structures shaping the museum’s display in an effort to change existing interpretive practice. The project developed five color-coded thematic self-guided tours—art as commodity, spiritual practice, technology and cultural evolutionism, mortuary rituals, and postcolonial perspectives—presented to the public as an interpretive exhibition invited visitors’ contributions. This paper explores how the analog hypertext functions as both a research tool and a content delivery device for the representation of multiple critical perspectives, fostering interdisciplinary perspectives and visitor meaning-making in the process.

The chapter house of the Benedictine priory of Saint John Le Bas-Nueil, currently located in the Worcester Art Museum, is an impressive piece of architecture. However, visitors are currently restricted to admiring the structure and its restoration only, as there is limited information presented in the museum about the room’s original use. The purpose of this project was to produce a low-impact, narrative-driven audio experience designed to increase visitor interest in the museum in general and Benedictine life during the twelfth century in particular. The prototype produced combines elements of traditional audio tours, radio drama, and question-and-answer interaction sequences to provide a self-driven immersive experience.

MASTERS FACULTY OF HUMANITIES SCHOOL OF ARTS STUDENT NO: 9910933F / This study investigates the ways in which museums are understood as texts, and how artists challenge those assumptions within their work. The extent to which parody, a central tenet of post- modern art, can be used as an effective means to challenge the hegemony of the art museum, is investigated through an analyses of artworks by Illya Kabakov and Marcel Broodthaers. The first part of the study interrogates the hegemonic function of museums, through a discussion of the central tenets of museological discourse, in order to contextualise the discussion of the artworks in question. The second part of this study includes an analysis of specific artworks by Illya Kabakov and Marcel Broodthaers, detailing the ways in which these artists parody aspects of museum practice. The concluding chapter interrogates my own artistic production in relation to this research.

Wong Kam Ming, Michael. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1997-98, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Acknowledgements / Introduction / Chapter 1.0 --- Existing state / Chapter 1.1 --- Project background / Chapter 1.2 --- Project objectives / Chapter 1.3 --- Client / Chapter 1.4 --- Project finance / Chapter 1.5 --- Users / Chapter 1.7 --- Content / Chapter 1.8 --- Site constraints / Chapter 1.9 --- Schedule of accommodation / Chapter 2.0 --- Design process / Chapter 2.1 --- Site selection / Chapter 2.2 --- Facts & issues / Chapter 2.3 --- Design responses / Chapter 3.0 --- Final project / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 3.2 --- Design strategy / Chapter 3.3 --- Site aspect / Chapter 4.0 --- Specific design concern / Chapter 4.1 --- The road for art / Chapter 4.2 --- Art exhibition areas / Chapter 4.3 --- Independent activity area / Chapter 4.4 --- Open studio at roof / Chapter 4.5 --- Administration block / Chapter 4.6 --- Supporting facilities area / Chapter 4.7 --- Building services / Chapter 5.0 --- Appendix / Chapter 5.1 --- Interviews / Chapter 5.2 --- Precedents studies / Chapter 5.3 --- Technology requirements / Chapter 5.4 --- Bibliography

Tse Hoi Yan. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2004-2005, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 27). / INTRODUCTION --- p.01-03 / RESEARCH --- p.04-21 / SITE-MONGKOK --- p.22-33 / DESIGN PROCESS --- p.34-49 / FINAL DESIGN --- p.50-73 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.74