Rhiannon Lewis
MA work
MA work
“Digital Surrogates”: historically locating and understanding the evolution of digitized collection objects in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1996-2018
This dissertation seeks to understand how digital surrogate objects have evolved within the sites of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) between 1996-2018; in addition to describing the relationship between these surrogate objects and their physical referents (material collection objects). It attempts to articulate a definition for what constitutes a digital surrogate, and used the V&A’s museum owned online platforms (websites: vam.ac.uk, collections.vam.ac.uk) as a focus to do so. As well as examining the institutional factors that have affected their form, key comparisons were made with how rival institutions (Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum, New York and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) have formed and displayed their surrogates.
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MA Degree
School
School of Arts & Humanities
Programme
MA History of Design, 2018
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“Digital Surrogates”: historically locating and understanding the evolution of digitized collection objects in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1996-2018
Rhiannon's research as a Design Historian seeks to understand how digital surrogate objects have evolved within the sites of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) between 1996-2018; in addition to describing the relationship between these surrogate objects and their physical referents (material collection objects). It attempts to articulate a definition for what constitutes a digital surrogate, and used the V&A’s museum owned online platforms (websites: vam.ac.uk, collections.vam.ac.uk) as a focus to do so. As well as examining the institutional factors that have affected their form, key comparisons were made with how rival institutions (Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum, New York and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) have formed and displayed their surrogates.
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Degrees
- BA Hons [International] Fine Art, University of Leeds, 2012
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Exhibitions
- Designing Craft Crafting Design, Vienna Design Week, 2017