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"Curating after New Media Art: Museums, Collections and Audiences"
Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art, University of Sunderland
Monday 11th February 2013, 5pm-6.30pm
Mansfield Cooper 4.10
Artists have led the way in using social media tools and online networks to create new ways of art working that include self-distribution, mass participation and collaboration. Modes where 'the audience' might become not only a participant, but also to an extent a curator, throw down obvious challenges and opportunities for arts organisers across the contemporary arts. Beryl Graham will discuss these issues in relation to museum studies.
Beryl Graham is Professor of New Media Art at the School of Arts, Design and Media, University of Sunderland, and co-editor of CRUMB.
Everyone Welcome.
For further information please contact: Louise.Tythacott@manchester.ac.uk
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Dealing with Difference: Representations of Migration in European Museums
Christopher Whitehead, Professor of Museology, Newcastle University
Monday 18 March 2013, 5-6.30pm
Mansfield Cooper 4.10
This paper, emerging from the 'Museums in an Age of Migrations' (MeLa) project funded by the European Commission, focuses on representations of migrant experiences in European museums, considering themes such as homeland, dislocation, struggle, adaptation and cultural tradition. It examines displays involving the use of migrants’ possessions to emblematise cultural displacement and survival.
Christopher Whitehead is Professor of Museology at Newcastle University and author of: The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2005), Museums and the Constructions of Disciplines (2009), Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries (2012) and Placing Migration in European Museums: theoretical, contextual and methodological foundations (2012).
Everyone welcome
For further information please contact: Louise.Tythacott@manchester.ac.uk
Funding for MA, MPhil, PhD and Professional Doctorate
Information about funding opportunities for a September 2013 entry is now available:
Funding for MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies
Funding for MA Arts Management, Policy and Practice
Funding for Phil/PhD/Professional Doctorate in Arts Management, Drama or Museology
'Urban Life' Exhibitions
MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies student groups are unveiling 4 small displays on the general theme of 'Urban Life', 19th November - 12th December 2012. The display is in the foyer of the Mansfield Cooper Building. Please visit and spread the word!
Martin Harris Centre Programme
The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama hosts a year-round programme of music, theatre, film and literature events.