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Past the Museum Floor: Criteria for Curating Experience

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This chapter examines exhibition design methodologies explored by the research platform , New Media Curation . From University Labs, to Museum floors to Festivals , the chapter outlines how adopting disruptive methodology resituates the curator as a specialist carer of objects to a collaborative producer of experience mediated by technology. It considers experiential learning and the affect it has on practitioners. It traces the legacy of Beta_space and its impact on practice-based research and reflective practice in contemporary curatorship. It extends these modalities of practice past the educational platforms of the University Lab and the Museum and into the public and experimental platform of the Festival . Three case studies will be examined: (1) Denouément, as part of VIVIDMusic 2015; (2) ISEA2015: disruption, and (3) Re/Pair, as part of the Big Anxiety Festival based at UNSW Art & Design . The aim of these case studies is to examine and expose criteria for curating interactive art , gleaned through in situ audience evaluation, with data collection in the form of surveys and specialist interviews .

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Much of the text presented for publication in this chapter has previously been submitted in April 2018 for a Ph.D. Study through the Creative Robotics Lab at the University of NSW, Faculty of Art and Design under Tillman, Deborah Jane Turnbull (2018). New Media Curation: a novel methodology with preliminary criteria for curating new media and interactive art . University of New South Wales , Art & Design; Sydney, Australia (170 pages). It was awarded in September 2018.

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Tillman, D.T. (2019). Past the Museum Floor: Criteria for Curating Experience. In: Giannini, T., Bowen, J. (eds) Museums and Digital Culture. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6_6

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