---
type: conference
title: The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2022
language: en
url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/digitalmuseum2022"
---

**Period:** Monday, 17 January - Friday, 21 January 2022

# The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2022

## International Online Conference

The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fourth event on the topic. The COVID-19 pandemic, and our resultant inability to experience proximity to people and objects, has given the matter additional “virulence” in museums. Although the topic of digitization was gaining ground before the pandemic, the measures taken against the virus created a very special experimental arrangement in which the digital presence of museums was no longer merely a possible extension of exhibition spaces but rather the only way to reach the public. While the focus of our 2021 conference explored the premise of a crisis-induced return to the museum’s own collections, this time it shifts to questions beyond binary concepts, such as media specificity, hybridity, and mixed reality. In five thematic blocks, the lectures of the online conference by international experts deal with how the digital and the analog can be productively, conceptually, and aesthetically interwoven in a museum setting.

**Period:** 17 January 2022 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, 18 January 2022 5:00 pm - 6:45 pm, 19 January 2022 5:00 pm - 6:45 pm, 20 January 2022 5:00 pm - 6:45 pm, 21 January 2022 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

**Address:** Rennweg 6, 1030 Vienna

**Materials (PDF):** [Program](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2022-01/Konferenz_2022_Programmfolder_V08.pdf), [Abstracts](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2022-01/Abstracts_final_2022.pdf), [Call for Papers](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2021-09/CFP_en_final_0.pdf)

**From the Series:** [All Conferences](https://www.belvedere.at/en/art-museum-digital-age)

**Language:** English, German Simultaneous Interpretation

**Hashtag:** #digitalmuseum #belvederemuseum

**Conference Committee:** Christian Huemer, (Belvedere, Wien / Vienna), Ralph Knickmeier, (Belvedere, Wien / Vienna), Anna-Marie Kroupová, (Belvedere, Wien / Vienna), Liz Neely, (Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe), John Tain, (Asia Art Archive, Hongkong / Hong Kong), Chiara Zuanni, (Universität Graz / University of Graz)

**Partner:** ![Logo ICOM Österreich](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/media-directories/ICOM_LetterModel-Oesterreich.jpg.webp?itok=gIx3TsEQ), ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2019-10/Museumsbund%20O%CC%88sterreich.png.webp?itok=rtL0pauZ)

## Introduction 

**Welcome & Introduction**  
Stella Rollig; Christian Huemer; Anna-Marie Kroupova (Belvedere, Vienna)

## Keynote 

**The Universal Museum and its Digital Expansion**  
Max Hollein (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

## Contributions 

**PANEL 1: Audience Engagement**

**Everyone’s and Just Yours. Wikimedia, Audience, and Openness at the National Gallery of Art, Washington**  
Benjamin Zweig (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

**Die MuseumsMenschen-App im Schaudepot. Ein intergeneratives, partizipatives Pilotprojekt an der Schnittstelle von analog und digital**  
Hanna Brinkmann; Anja Grebe (Danube University Krems); Melanie N. Lopin (Korneuburg City Museum)

**Sonic Enhancement of Virtual Exhibits**  
Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco; Michael Tymkiw (University of Essex)

**PANEL 2: Interwoven Worlds**

**Das Verhältnis von original-digital-virtuell**  
Werner Schweibenz (MusIS, University of Konstanz)

**Digital Ekphrasis. Creating Emily Dickinson’s Cultural Heritage**  
Kayla Shipp (Emory University, Atlanta)

**Virealität. Modus Operandi digitaler Kunstvermittlung der Hamburger Kunsthalle**  
Anja Gebauer; Katharina Hoins; Andrea Weniger (Hamburger Kunsthalle)

**Rethinking the Collection Catalogue. Hybrid Publishing at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art**  
Brigid M. Boyle (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City)

**PANEL 3: Strategic Dimensions**

**Surfen als Bedingung von Online-Kunstrezeption. Ausstellungsformate im Spannungsfeld digitaler Infrastrukturen**  
Heiko Schmid (Zurich University of the Arts; Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts)

**Eine Kategorisierung von AugmentedReality in der Museumspraxis**  
Jakob Ossmann; Carina Doppler (Fluxguide, Vienna)

**Emerging Virtual Spaces. Alternative Models for Displaying Collections Online**  
Ellen Charlesworth (Durham University)

**PANEL 4: Sociopolitical Relevance**

**Computing the Museum. Experiments in Algorithmic Co-curation**  
Giulia Taurino (Northeastern University, Boston)

**Museums and the Future Social Web**  
Lukas Fuchsgruber (Technische Universität Berlin)

**„NOOOO PUT ME BACK I was next in line for the immersive van gogh exhibit“.1Immersion: zur performativen und partizipativen Rezeption historischer Kunst**  
Charlotte Reuß (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

**User Experience of Art Exhibition in the „New Normality“. Innovative Methods of Research in Terms of Global Change**  
Marta Świetlik (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)

**PANEL 5: Virtual Extensions**

**From Lock-Down to Innovation. Welcome to the World’s First Gigapixel Museum**  
Sandra Verdel (Mauritshuis, The Hague)

**VR in the Museum. Reconstructing Difficult Heritage of Modern Architecture**  
Georgios Artopoulos (The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia)

## Panel Discussion 

**Panel Discussion**  
Moderation: Christian Huemer (Belvedere, Vienna)

Suse Anderson (George Washington University, Washington D.C.); Carolyn Royston (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York); Jeffrey T. Schnapp (metaLAB (at) Harvard, Cambridge)

## Program 

### MO, 17 JAN

**5.00 pm**

**Welcome & Introduction**  
Stella Rollig; Christian Huemer; Anna-Marie Kroupova (Belvedere, Vienna)

**Panel 1: Audience Engagement**

Moderation: Sabine Fauland (Austrian Museums Association, Graz)

**5.20 pm**

**Everyone’s and Just Yours. Wikimedia, Audience, and Openness at the National Gallery of Art, Washington**  
Benjamin Zweig (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

**5.45 pm**

**Die MuseumsMenschen-App im Schaudepot. Ein intergeneratives, partizipatives Pilotprojekt an der Schnittstelle von analog und digital**  
Hanna Brinkmann; Anja Grebe (Danube University Krems); Melanie N. Lopin (Korneuburg City Museum)

**6.10 pm**

**Sonic Enhancement of Virtual Exhibits**  
Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco; Michael Tymkiw (University of Essex)

**7.00 pm**

**Keynote Lecture**

Moderation: Christian Huemer (Belvedere, Vienna)

**The Universal Museum and its Digital Expansion**  
Max Hollein (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

### TU, 18 JAN

**Panel 2: Interwoven Worlds**

Moderation: Nicole High-Steskal (Danube University Krems)

**5.00 pm**

**Das Verhältnis von original-digital-virtuell**   
Werner Schweibenz (MusIS, University of Konstanz)

**5.25 pm**

**Digital Ekphrasis. Creating Emily Dickinson’s Cultural Heritage**  
Kayla Shipp (Emory University, Atlanta)

**5.50 pm**

**Virealität. Modus Operandi digitaler Kunstvermittlung der Hamburger Kunsthalle**   
Anja Gebauer; Katharina Hoins; Andrea Weniger (Hamburger Kunsthalle)

**6.15 pm**

**Rethinking the Collection Catalogue. Hybrid Publishing at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art**

Brigid M. Boyle (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City)

### WE, 19 JAN

**Panel 3: Strategic Dimensions**

Moderation: Anna-Marie Kroupova (Belvedere, Vienna)

**5.00 pm**

**Surfen als Bedingung von Online-Kunstrezeption. Ausstellungsformate im Spannungsfeld digitaler Infrastrukturen**    
Heiko Schmid (Zurich University of the Arts; Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts)

**5.25 pm**

**Eine Kategorisierung von Augmented Reality in der Museumspraxis**    
Carina Doppler; Jakob Ossmann (Fluxguide, Vienna)

**5.50 pm**

**Emerging Virtual Spaces. Alternative Models for Displaying Collections Online**    
Ellen Charlesworth (Durham University)

**6.15 pm**

**Kryptokunst & Museum. Beispiele einer Beziehung**   
Carola Korhummel (University of Vienna)

### TH, 20 JAN

**Panel 4: Sociopolitical Relevance**

Moderation: Chiara Zuanni (University of Graz)

**5.00 pm**

**Computing the Museum. Experiments in Algorithmic Co-curation**  
Giulia Taurino (Northeastern University, Boston)

**5.25 pm**

**Museums and the Future Social Web**  
Lukas Fuchsgruber (Technical University of Berlin)

**5.50 pm**

**„NOOOO PUT ME BACK I was next in line for the immersive van gogh exhibit“. Immersion: zur performativen und partizipativen Rezeption historischer Kunst**  
Charlotte Reuß (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

**6.15 pm**

**User Experience of Art Exhibition in the „New Normality“. Innovative Methods of Research in Terms of Global Change**  
Marta Świetlik (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)

### FR, 21 JAN

**Panel 5: Virtual Extensions**

Moderation: Richard Kurdiovsky (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)

**5.00 pm**

**From Lock-Down to Innovation. Welcome to the World’s First Gigapixel Museum**  
Sandra Verdel (Mauritshuis, The Hague)

**5.25 pm**

**From Palmyra to Pompei. The Dynamics of Display of Virtual Archaeological Sites in Museum Exhibitions**  
Isabella Archer (École du Louvre, Paris; University of Poitiers)

**5.50 pm**

**VR in the Museum. Reconstructing Difficult Heritage of Modern Architecture**  
Georgios Artopoulos (The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia)

**7.00 pm**

**Panel Discussion**

Moderation: Christian Huemer (Belvedere, Vienna)  
Suse Anderson (George Washington University, Washington D.C.)  
Carolyn Royston (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York)  
Jeffrey T. Schnapp (metaLAB (at) Harvard, Cambridge)