Thanks to the Leverhulme Trust-funded international research network on Feminism and Curating, the Smithsonian is hosted a research symposium 23-24 September 2011 to probe some of the deep ethical questions about technology and museum practice:
* What's new about "new media"? It is truly transformative, or just another modernist trope of "innovation"?
* Is technology really "broadening access" to museums, or just adding more and new faces to the existing structures of power?
* Can technology play a more critical role in the museum, enabling encounters and counter-narratives that "difference the canon" as Griselda Pollock has called it?
Friday 23 September, 10am-5:30pm
Saturday 24 September, 10am-5pm
More information at http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/irn and on the conference wiki:http://feminismandcurating.pbworks.com/w/page/44129643/Smithsonian
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