'The Biscuit Town': digital practice, spatiality and discoverability in Reading's heritage sector

Murjas, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1280-7149 (2020) 'The Biscuit Town': digital practice, spatiality and discoverability in Reading's heritage sector. Body, Space & Technology, 19 (1). pp. 153-173. ISSN 1470-9120 doi: 10.16995/bst.337

Abstract/Summary

This paper focuses on two artistic research projects created in collaboration with museums in Reading, UK; the hybrid-media installation The First World War in Biscuits (2014), shown in a ‘white cube’ gallery in Reading Museum and the online resource War Child: Meditating on an Archive (2016): www.war-child-archive.com. The paper analyses approaches taken during the projects’ development to matters of spatial and digital curation. It considers how they engaged with the idea of collaboratively-produced ‘histories from below’ and with the cultural heritage sector priority of discoverability. It concludes by noting some emerging questions connected with the projects’ longer-term physical and virtual materialisation.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/88408
Identification Number/DOI	10.16995/bst.337
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Arts and Communication Design > Film, Theatre & Television
Publisher	Brunel University
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