Print Publication in a Digital Age… Why?
Friday, October 8 - 10:45am to 12:00pm
Presenters:
Madelyn Della Valle, Curator, Windsor's Community Museum; Sarah Beam-Borg, Exhibition Manager and Assistant Curator, The Bata Shoe Museum; Sally Hughes, Senior Lecturer in Publishing, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies (remote presentation via Skype TBC)
Why do print publications still have relevance to the museum in this digital age? Through the lens of three different museums, panellists will dissect the public’s ongoing attraction to the printed word as a tangible collectible which has perceived value in the rather impermanent digital universe.
Projects include self-published exhibition catalogues from the Bata Shoe Museum and a bilingual (Italian-English) book on the story of Italians in Windsor coordinated by Windsor’s Community Museum. A bonus of this session will be a brief distance presentation by the Senior Lecturer in Publishing, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, UK, exploring how printed commodities frame museums and exhibitions.
