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Being
Within Story, Screen, and Museum Space
...Just like
Alice ...
This paper is concerned with process; at the level
of story-telling and exhibition content, and at the structural
level of methodological and exhibition display. Narrative structure
and form bring into being a certain view or perspective of a specific
moment or fragment that becomes privileged as content that is
then framed within the narrative structure which articulates its
existence. However, the structural framework itself is methodological
and itself expresses processes of dominant story-telling. This
form-content relationship is evident in museological exhibitions
and displays, and may be further examined through the emerging
focus on new technologies within the museum space. Taking Lewis
Carroll's narrative form from the Alice stories as well as Sylvie
and Bruno, this paper conceptualizes the ways in which audiences
move through physical museum spaces, and the ways that they interact
with non-traditional museum displays in order to ascertain the
effect of animated exhibition technologies on spectatorial modes
of interaction. |
Bio
Kylie Message is currently completing a
Ph.D. at The University of Melbourne. Her dissertation explores the
implementation of new media exhibiting strategies within museum environments,
and the effect of these on modes of spectatorship. She has worked
curatorially with Museum Victoria, and has written about artists working
with new and emerging media. She is currently teaching Design History
and Critical Theory at the National School of Design, in Melbourne,
and Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Kylie Message
The University
of Melbourne School of Fine Arts,
Classical Studies and Archaeology
Old Pathology Building
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 Australia
mailto: kmessage@alphalink.com.au