Explore the latest trends in museum studies in the context of the new museum at the second biennial Savannah College of Art and Design Art History Symposium in Savannah, Ga. The three-day symposium includes a series of sessions and events centered on exhibition, education, technology and cultural heritage.

Art History Symposium 2008
Savannah College of Art and Design
Friday, April 4th
Session IV
River Club, 2:15–3:45 p.m

Forward Motion Theater are participating via teleconference.

Architecture of Participation
Session chair: Christoph Klütsch, Ph.D.

The cultural landscape surrounding museums continues to go through dramatic changes. One of the most challenging tasks today is the integration of the audience—a core element of the cultural landscape—into the museum institution museum. The rise of specialized museums is evidence of a competitive cultural industry, which forces contemporary museology to investigate the multiple relations between artist, object, visitor, participant, curator, economy and technology. A central notion has appeared in recent years: participation. Investigate the way relationship between participating elements could be re-interpreted to meet the cultural needs of the global society through the lens of pilot projects in the European Union, which will be compared and contrasted with experiences of global artistic collaboration to stimulate a discussion about the “Architectures of Participation.”

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