Archives in motion: digital collections and experimental museology
Prof. Sarah Kenderdine, EPFL
Archives in motion describes ‘experimental museology’ as a collaborative research practise for cultural collections, custodians and communities. The presentation focuses on transdisciplinary initiatives at the intersection of immersive visualisation technologies, visual analytics, aesthetics and cultural (big) data to explore cultural heritage from scientific, artistic and humanistic perspectives. Through a series of experimental platforms and projects the discussion will unpack a range of new archives which have spatial temporal complexity as core attributes. This complexity offers diverse audiences new opportunities for engagement and experience, while also challenging prerequisites for infrastructure and driving collaboration and convergence across domains.
Professor Sarah Kenderdine researches at the forefront of interactive and immersive experiences for galleries, libraries, archives and museums. In widely exhibited installation works, she has amalgamated cultural heritage with new media art practice, especially in the realms of interactive cinema, augmented reality and embodied narrative. Sarah has produced 80 exhibitions and installations for museums worldwide including a museum complex in India and received a number of major international awards for this work. In 2017, Sarah was appointed Professor of Digital Museology at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland where she has built a new laboratory for experimental museology (eM+), exploring the convergence of aesthetic practice, visual analytics and cultural data. She is Director and lead curator of EPFL’s new art/science initiative, ArtLab.