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12/05/2008
Current Issues in Exhibition Design Part of Québec Now! December 5, 2008 | 6:00 PM TO 7:30 PM December 6, 2008 | 10:00 AM TO 6:30 PM In light of recent transformations to the city of Toronto’s museum landscape, with the new ROM crystal, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gardiner Museum, and the Aga Khan Foundation for Islamic Art, this international symposium will address ideas of new museography, the art of designing exhibitions, in the contemporary museum. The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design with the Art Gallery of Ontario will host curators, designers, architects, and museographers from Europe and North America to debate positions on the art of display and the shifting status of its object. Keynote Address by Michael Govan Director, LACMA Panelists and presenations include: The Virtual, Interactive Museum: An End in Itself or a Tool? How New Technologies Improve Artefact, Presentation and Mediation? exhibiting OR echoing back a multifold reality A View on a Practice: From the Staging of Concepts Intended to Display the “Understanding” to the Promotion – If Not the Rerouting – of Specific Works The Louvre Museum: Between Heritage and Creation Putting the Visitor at the Centre of Experience Design in the Transformed AGO Out of Context But Into the Spotlight: African Objects of Ethnography in American Museums of Art Frank Understood: Staging Experiences with Art in the Transformed AGO The Museum as a Performance Moderators: George Baird University of Toronto This event is open to the public and attendance is free of charge. Registration is required | registration@daniels.utoronto.ca Supported by: John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design Art Gallery of Ontario Consulat Général de France CulturesFrance Ministère de la culture, des communications et de la condition féminine du Québec Bureau du Québec à Toronto Centre d'Etudes de la France et du Monde Francophone Media Release: Please click here for the Poster [PDF]. Program: |