In the Museum of Pure Form, we explore a novel way of presenting art to visitors of a museum, allowing them to virtually touch artefacts in a virtual museum. In order to realise this the statues are first digitised with a scanner so that they can be placed in a virtual museum. The virtual museum is then displayed on a 3D stereo screen. The visitor uses a purpose-built two-contact-point haptic d...

From the outset, our challenge is to elevate your ‘‘thinking about thinking’’ and to creatively engage with new thought as it both defined and was derivative of the human mind during key periods of European artistic and scientific development commencing with Renaissance awakenings, through the passions of the Romantic age, Enlightenment’s revelations and the powers of Symbolism, culminating in ...

Art historical debate has percolated for more than half a century over the identity of the three Bacchanals (-) commissioned from Nicolas Poussin by Cardinal Richelieu for his chateau in Poitou, France. The subjects have been identified as the Triumphs of Pan, Bacchus, and Silenus, respectively. The success of this commission led to demand for the production of copies close in date to the ...

Sociologists that study organizations often analyze the museum from a cultural perspective that emphasizes the norms of the museum industry and the larger society. We review this literature and suggest that sociologists should take into account the technical demands of museums. Drawing on insights from social studies of technology, we argue that museums are better understood as organizations th...

This essay offers an explicit application of the mental spaces and blending framework to account for the dynamic nature of meaning construction in a public art museum. The mental spaces and blending framework show great utility for modelling the use of diverse sign systems in specific social and institutional settings. The objects of inquiry are audio presentations on particular paintings, scul...