Web for cultural promotion: Virtual Exhibitions and Websites for Writers

Laura Antonietti, Tatiana Corsano, Simona Musmeci, Francesco Tissoni, Natalia Topolska

Virtual exhibitions: an introductionFrancesco Tissoni

The Five Ws of Virtual Exhibitions

• Who: Institutions and students• What: what is a virtual exhibition?• When: How much time a virtual exhibition lives?• Where: where the virtual exhibitions are placed or

published?• Why: why cultural organizations create online exhibitions?

• How:– in what ways virtual exhibitions are used?– how is it possible to create a virtual exhibition?

Who: Institutions

• Institutions:1. Università degli studi di Milano – University of Milan2. Fondazione BEIC: Biblioteca Europea di Informazione

e Cultura BEIC Foundation: European Library of Information and Culture

3. Centro Apice: Archivi della Parola dell’Immagine e della Comunicazione EditorialeAPICE Center – Archives of Word, Image and Editorial Communication

4. Centro MIC – Moda Immagine e ConsumiMIC Center - interdepartmental center for Fashion,

Image and Consumer culture5. Cortina Arte Art Gallery …. and many other

BEIC – European Library of information and culture

http://www.beic.it/it

BEIC – European Library of information and culture: Giuseppe Pontiggia Fund

http://www.beic.it/mostre/pontiggia/

BEIC – European Library of information and culture: Paolo Monti Photographer

http://www.beic.it/mostre/monti/index.html

APICE Center – Archives of Word, Image and Editorial Communication

http://www.sba.unimi.it/Biblioteche/apice/1872.html

Virtual Exhibition «Antonio Porta Fund»

MIC: Interdepartmental center for Fashion, Image and Consumer culture

http://users2.unimi.it/mic/

Virtual Exhibition: Milan and the style of a city in the eighteenth

century

http://palazzomorando.altervista.org/home.html

Who: Students

• Laura Antonietti• Tatiana Corsano• Simona Musmeci• Natalia Topolska

• Graduate students in multimedia publishing

What

• What is a virtual exhibition?

• A virtual exhibition is an hypermedia, in which digital objects are connected by a thematic route, produced by the personal choice of the designer, that could be published on the web with various purposes.

(Francesco Tissoni)

Virtual Exhibitions: critical points

• Users;• interaction, web 2.0 features;• Graphics;• web writing;• relation with documents and real exhibitions.

When (How much time)

• How much time a virtual exhibition lives?

Where

• Where virtual exhibitions are placed or published?

Why

• Why create virtual exhibitions? The reasons of our project.– Educational purpose– Enhancement– Other Benefits

• Culture medium• More items than a real exhibition• Bring together material from different institutions

How

• In what ways virtual exhibitions are used ?– To prepare for a visit to a museum– To review works of art seen in art galleries– To be funded

• how is it possible to create a virtual exhibition?– HTML editors– CMS – Content Mangement Systems

Memo

• F. Tissoni, Mostre virtuali per il Centro Apice – Una proposta culturale e didattica, Altre modernità, 2012: http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/2564

• OTEBAC, Mostre virtuali on line. Linee guida per la realizzazione (2011-) http://www.otebac.it/index.php?it/320/mostre-virtuali-online-linee-guida-per-la-realizzazione

• DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, vol. 33 n. 13: Applications of Online Exhibitions (may 2013)

• http://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit/index