This week's graduates

Four new TEC-CH graduates this week: Claudia, Silvia, Olga and Federica. Claudia, a trained artist in the Academia di Belle Arti di Venezia looked upon the future of the exhibition catalogue and researched the possibilities set forth by electronic multimedia and technological devices for adding interactivity to the process of documentation that occurs after a visit to a museum/gallery/exhibition.
Silvia has drawn her thesis research idea from a stage at the Triennale di Milano. She studied the re-evaluation of the city suburbs through art and design.
Federica researched the potential of information technologies for enhancing art experiencing and understanding. The focus of her work was a case-study that she documented while doing her internship at the Louvre Museum: Louvre - DNP Museum Lab results from a collaboration between the Museum Louvre and the Japanese technology producer DNP. Through this collaboration, a series of exhibitions were organized in Japan, based on a unique concept: the display of one or a reduced series of artworks, surrounded by technological devices coming together in a setting where art meanings could be explored.
Olga looked upon the use of web 2.0 for communicating the Italian cultural heritage. After providing a background on the Italian cultural heritage panorama, and the use of digital technology for promoting it, she set this against the possibilities offered by user-contributed content creation. The focus of her work was a case-study on the website of the Museum Capodimonte.

ICM 2008

For who has not been around Lugano these two weeks, here is an update on the course Interactive Communication for Museums, which has been inspiring and intensive as always, with an integrated field trip to Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee , a one-day conference - Knowledge on Demand and one week of creative student work and lectures afterwards. The course ended on Friday with the student project presentations.

(Photo : curator Christine Hopfengart talking to students at the Paul Klee Center)
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