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SM6331 - Digital Media for Curating

Offering Academic Unit
School of Creative Media
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
One Semester
Course Offering Term*:
Semester A 2018/19

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice
 
Course Aims

This course aims to provide students with an overview of the digital media used by curators for exhibitions, its current technologies, as well as providing competent knowledge about the process of planning, design and production. Curators can use digital media to inform, narrate, educate and communicate with the visitors but different visitors or contents need different kind of technologies. Curators are using different kind of online and offline media to reach their aims of communication and education in the exhibition show. By understanding the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of analog and digital media, the students will learn which medium will support best the message of their exhibition show and how to combine classic analog with digital media to reach these aims. By the end of the semester students should be able to identify the pros and cons of the different digital media, plan a strategy which media are the best for their purposes and know how to calculate and produce digital media for curating. Attention will be distributed across analog and digital media, online and offline media, interactive narration but also educational purposes, visitor services, museum management and exhibition design.

Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)

Continuous Assessment: 100%
 
Detailed Course Information

SM6331.pdf

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