iLAB Leaders: Areti Galani & Jamie Allen

 Researchers:

Lindsay Allason-Jones
Ruth Barker
Tom Bartindale
Irene Brown
Rachel Clarke
G.T Goodrick
Chris Kray 
Debbie Maxwell
Rhiannon Mason
Stephen McGough
Steve Mclean
Patrick Olivier
Guy Schofield 
John Shearer
Atau Tanaka
Gavin Wood 

Scope

iLab: Museum looks at the reflexive nature of the relationship between the museum and digital technologies, how these fields connect, interrelate and shape each other.

We are interested in how collections, artefacts, material culture, environments and ideas are made available, communicated, interpreted, accessed and experienced through digital media in cultural contexts, such as museum, galleries, heritage sites and the city.

We explore how digital technology can be appropriated in exhibition and installation design to reflect their context and to allow for a creative dialogue between the audience/viewer/participant and the display.

We embed digital cultural media in the natural and built environment and design situations in which physical interactions, media and environments create new meanings.

Our research is grounded in and contributes to current debates and practice in:

• interaction design
• exhibition and installation design
• curatorial and museum practice
• fine art and creative practice
• archaeology and artefact studies
• digital media design
• audience, visitor and user studies

We evolve through thinking and doing in interdisciplinary teams involving academic environments, museums and other cultural institutions. We are interested in knowledge transfer between these environments and their practices.

Projects

Title: Creative Digital Media Research Practice: Production through Exhibition
Academics: Jamie Allen, Areti Galani, Atau Tanaka
Funding Source: AHRC
Date: October 2008 to September 2010
Value: £9,721

Past Projects

Title: Museum 'Memories' Online: How the web is transforming the museum's relationship with oral history and personal testimony.
Academics: Areti Galani, Rhiannon Mason
Funding Source: Tyne and Wear Museums
Date: October 2006 to September 2009
Value: £3,000