Access and digital media

This area considers social media and the ‘internet of things’, already a strong research topic within Edinburgh College of Art / University of Edinburgh.

Dr Chris Speed and Jane Macdonald, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh

How can people’s interactions with artworks in the ARTIST ROOMS collection be enriched and broadened through social media? What new interpretative, touring, collections management and curatorial possibilities are opened up for the ARTIST ROOMS collection through the internet of things?

Researchers will be looking at the new ecologies of social media (folksonomies, transformation and alteration, immaterial and material subjects) and how they feed into museological, curatorial and exhibition practices, collection care, and intellectual property research.

They will also look at how information, data, interpretation and interaction can be attached to artefacts to encourage new ways of pursuing museum-based learning, curating and exhibition making, collections and conservation work.