Abstract For a long time, research on the pre-Han (before 202 BCE) Chinese use of lost-wax process was targeted at demonstrating that it no all. That position severely shaken when zun-pan set Zeng Hou Yi (“Marquis Zeng,” d. 433 unearthed Hubei Suizhou in 1978, along with subsequently excavated finds or rediscovered artifacts carrying similarly interpenetrating openwork. Since early 2000s, howev...

of the author and not the views of the Flemish Community. The Flemish Community cannot be held accountable for the potential use of the communicated views and data. 1 Nowadays 'cultural participation' is often reduced to a matter of 'physical access'. It is used to point out which and more particularly how many people visit a cultural institution or take part in a cultural event. In this paper ...

Andy Warhol, the eternal optimist believed wholeheartedly in the American ideal that every hardworking citizen, given an equal opportunity, earned the inalienable right to become rich and famous. It is no coincidence that we think of Warhol not only with his self-portrait pulled of the Internet from his very own Museum Internet Page but also for his belief in the American dream. For even if Int...

The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) at Oberlin College is using digital technology to enhance its educational mission: digital archiving and web publishing are being used to vastly increase and enhance the availability of our educational resources. By pursuing the dual goals of presentation and preservation, we are creating a system that will allow unprecedented access to thousands of signific...

Our IMSC team has used haptics to allow museum visitors to explore three-dimensional works of art by “touching” them, something that is not possible in ordinary museums due to prevailing “hands-off” policies [1, 2]. Haptics involves the modality of touch--the sensation of shape and texture an observer feels when exploring a virtual object, such as a three-dimensional model of a piece of pottery...