Creation Of Exhibitions Research Articles

"Deeds for the Benefit of the Development of Cities": About the Association of Artists of the Irkutsk Province in the 1880-1900s

Relevance. In the 1880s - 1900s, artists sought to create creative associations, whose activities were aimed at the development of public initiative, urban spaces. The gradual discovery of new funds, sources in the archives, the identification of information about artists, the history of acquisition of museums, the creation of exhibitions, update the process of studying the association of artists for the benefit of the development of cities in the Irkutsk province.The purpose is to restore the history of the association of artists and deeds in the organization of work on the development of cities in the Irkutsk province in the 1880-1900s.Objectives: to study documentary evidence of artistic events in order to understand the principles of interaction between artists and the urban community on the construction of work on the improvement of spaces, the development of territories; consider the activities of artists in the framework of the creation of museum collections, creative associations for the organization of traveling exhibitions and expositions based on the research; determine the role of art communities in the creation of exhibition, mobile spaces, the formation of visitors' ideas about the role of museums in the development of cities in the Irkutsk province.Methodology. The work uses an integrated approach. The principle of historicism, objectivity, scientific character is taken into account, problem-chronological and historical-genetic methods are used.Results. In the process of parsing the archives of Irkutsk, materials were found that describe the artistic work of artists in the development of museums in the Irkutsk province. In the 1880s-1900s, it is possible to observe the process of urban residents turning to the preservation of artistic heritage, the improvement of cultural centers to attract the attention of the younger generation to the work of creative associations in the acquisition of regional museum collections.Conclusions. Artists of the Irkutsk province create associations to maintain exhibition, mobile spaces that existed at museums and generally significant city places. The attitude of urban residents to well-known artistic and educational centers is changing. The interest of artists in the development of cities confirms the effectiveness of interaction with the public. Materials about the work of creative associations represent events about the formation of art spaces.

Curating with Counterpowers

AbstractThis article examines the turn in Anglophone protest cultures since 2007 toward curating, museums, and heritage: a rise in the toppling of statues, demonstrations inside museums, and the creation of exhibitions, displays, and archives within the ephemeral spaces of protest camps and other mobilizations. The author argues for the historical causes of this curatorial turn in movement cultures, examines the structural power dynamics of this extrainstitutional curating vis-à-vis the practices and policies of cultural institutions, and puts these developments in critical dialogue with recent debates on “activist curating” and “institutional liberation.” Lastly, drawing on this analysis and firsthand experiences on both sides of this dynamic (as a core member of the collective Liberate Tate and as cocurator of the V&A exhibition Disobedient Objects), the author assesses this trajectory's potentials and limits as a cultural strategy for social change.

Kommemorativnye praktiki v sisteme sovetskoj ideologii v 1920-e gg. (na materialah istpartov Severnogo Kavkaza)

In modern Russia, the problem of the formation of civic identity remains urgent, in connection with which considerable attention is paid to the commemoration, that is, the preservation in the historical memory of society of ideas about the most significant events of the collective past, acting as the basis for the continuity of generations. The article analyzes the main directions of the activities of Istparts of the North Caucasus in the process of commemoration of the important historical events significant from the point of view of the Soviet power institutions - the October Revolution and the Civil War. The authors consider such methods of commemoration of the historical monuments of the North Caucasus as the organization of evenings of memories, the creation of exhibitions and museums of the revolution, the preparation of award lists to honor local heroes, the renaming of settlements and the opening of monuments.

Exhibitions as Public Health Interventions: The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society

Can exhibitions of artifacts from the tobacco industry, its allies and critics, act as a public health intervention? The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society is a curatorial and research center dedicated to the creation of exhibitions on the tobacco industry and its allies, the marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, and the efforts to counteract the use and promotion of cigarettes throughout the 20th century to the present day. Physical and digital exhibitions provide social and historical context to increase public understanding of a deadly product which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, kills 1,300 Americans a day. Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society collects “communication artifacts” of the tobacco industry, from ubiquitous advertisements to subtler promotional efforts such as financial support for museums and other cultural institutions. This summary of the center’s work spotlights archives, curated and made public through exhibitions.

Exhibitions as Public Health Interventions: The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society

Can exhibitions of artifacts from the tobacco industry, its allies and critics, act as a public health intervention? The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society is a curatorial and research center dedicated to the creation of exhibitions on the tobacco industry and its allies, the marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, and the efforts to counteract the use and promotion of cigarettes throughout the 20th century to the present day (Blum, 1994, p. 8). Physical and digital exhibitions provide social and historical context to increase public understanding of a deadly product which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, kills 1,300 Americans a day. University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society collects “communication artifacts” of the tobacco industry, from ubiquitous advertisements to subtler promotional efforts such as financial support for museums and other cultural institutions. This summary of the center’s work spotlights archives, curated and made public through exhibitions.

ROLE OF MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN MUSEUM EXPOSITION

The article is an attempt to reconsider the theoretical postulates related to multimedia in museum business through the prism of the exhibition experiences gained by the Ural Regional Institute of Museum Projects. The main issues raised in the article are the classification of digital technologies, their interaction with other elements of the exposition, the potential of using IT-technologies in museum space. The staff of the Institute review their mistakes made in project work, combining theory and practice. The most serious shortcomings in the creation of exhibitions with multimedia technologies are considered to be visual disharmony against the general design of the museum space, lack of multimedia technology unity and disengagement of digital technologies from the scientific concept. Consideration is also given to the current state of museum business in the current context of overall digitalization.

A Storytelling-Driven Framework for Cultural Heritage Dissemination

This paper aims at introducing a new dissemination framework for cultural heritage (CH) making possible affordable solutions for small and medium museums to cooperate/collaborate in the creation of exhibitions. The framework also makes possible new data-based communication strategies able to combine content belonging to different cultural archives and accessed through an ontology-based integration and discovery mechanism, and fosters new data sharing and distribution policies that preserve intellectual property rights. The proposed dissemination model redefines the concept of digital storytelling with the aim of increasing the participation of domain experts in the dissemination of CH. The framework is designed around a graph-based architecture for creating attractive and engaging multimedia narratives that will be transformed in real experiences personalized according to the user’s profile, interests and context of use. Recommender and digital right management services are provided to authors and users for helping them in the creation, personalization and navigation of stories and for guaranteeing the adoption of suitable sharing and distribution policies.