Overview of MW98: Why you should attend MW98 Learn new skills to enhance your museum site Explore issues and controversies facing Museums and the Web Experts featured at MW98 Commercial products and services to enhance your web site Organizations supporting MW98: Online interchange regarding the virtual museum experience Juried awards to best web sites in 5 categories
MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 1998

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Main Sessions

Main sessions explored issues and controversies.

Thursday, April 23, 1998

9:00 a.m.-
10:30 a.m.

Opening Plenary

Maxwell Anderson, Director, Art Gallery of Ontario
11:00 a.m.-
1:00 p.m.

Usability

From "Come and Get It" to "Seek and You Shall Find": Transition from a Central Resource to an Information Meta-Centre
Karen Neimanis & Ecaterina Geber, Canadian Heritage Information Network

To Use or Not to Use? Evaluating Usability of Museum Web Sites
Franca Garzotto, Maristella Matera & Paolo Paolini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Rich Experiences

Revelation: Pioneering International Education Using Hominid Remains and High-Fidelity Digital Models
James Devine, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery & Malcolm Atkinson, University of Glasgow, UK

Putting the Museum Experience in the Web User's Home
Patrick Tevlin, Ontario Science Centre

Bringing Authentic Museum Experiences to the Web
Rob Semper, Exploratorium, USA

2:30 p.m.-
5:00 p.m.

Interactivity

Hands Online
Martin Freeth, Director, Science World, UK

A Virtual Interactive Art Gallery
António Ramires Fernandes, Hugo Castelo Pires & Rui Rodrigues, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

ZKM I Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe: The Museum of the Future
Gerd Schwandner, General Manager, ZKM I Center for Art and Media, Germany

Do Museum Web Presences Make Sense?

With All This I.T., Are We Doing Our Job Better?
Richard Gerrard, Heritage Toronto

Why Are We Here? Justifying Our Presence on the Internet
Cliff Quinn, British Columbia Museums Association, Canada

Digitising Collections: the Redefining of Museums
Steven Smith, United Focus Pty Ltd, Australia

Friday, April 24, 1998

9:30 a.m.-
5:30 p.m.

Exhibition Hall Open

All day commercial exhibitors will be presenting the latest tools and technologies and showcasing services tailored for museums on the Web.

Saturday, April 25, 1998

10:00 a.m.-
12:00 p.m.

Interfaces

Museums and WWW-based Art Education
Slavko Milekic, Hampshire College, Cynthia Moreno & Amy Kazee, J.B. Speed Art Museum, USA

Time-Travels in Virtual Online Landscapes: New Presentation Possibilities with Online Virtual Reality
Askan Striepe & Fax Quintus, Fraunhofer-Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (FhG-IPK); Ingo Braun and Anja Kutzner, Kulturbox GmbH; Andreas Knoche and Leonie Schaefer, Technical University of Berlin; and Birgit Böhme and Uta Simmons, Centre of Berlin Studies, Germany

Using the Web to Give Life to Museums
Alberto Proença, Universidade do Minho, Mário Brito, Museu D. Diogo de Sousa,Teresa Ramalho, Universidade do Minho, and Helena Regalo, Museu Nogueira da Silva

New Meanings

The Web and the Horse in the Cave: New Technologies and the Meaning of Art
Peter Walsh, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, USA

Models for a New Visitor-Centered Museum: Using the Web to Create Community and Continuity for the Museum Visitor
Larry Friedlander, Stanford University, USA

1:00 p.m.-
3:00 p.m.

Virtualizing Museums: The De-Materialization of the Institution

The Importance of a Virtual Museum in a Third World Country: the Experience of MUVA, Virtual Museum of Arts, El Pais
Alicia Haber, Director, MUVA EL PAIS, Uruguay

The Whys and Hows of Deinstitutionalization
Martha Wilson and Michael Katchen, Franklin Furnace, USA

Conceptualizing a Digital Art Museum
Lin Hsin Hsin INFOTECH Research & Consultancy, Singapore

Cultural Competition

Web Specific Art: The Development of a New Genre
Michael Alstad & Camille Turner, gallery year zero one, Canada

Web Graphics: Art on the Net
Mark Harden, USA

Curating on the Web: the Museum in an Interface Culture
Steve Dietz, Walker Art Center

3:30 p.m.-
5:00 p.m.

Closing Plenary

Greg Van Alstyne, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Winner of Best of the Web 98) & Lyn Elliot Sherwood, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada


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