The Museum Experience: Mapping the Experience of Fine Art

How do visitors to fine art museums experience exhibitions? Can we classify their experiences? What are the factors that drive different types of visitor experience? We set out to answer these questions by analyzing from sociological, psychological, physiological, and behavioral perspectives the responses of 576 visitors to a special exhibition 11: 1 (+ 3) = Eleven Collections for One Museum mounted at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, from June to August 2009. Our five‐year research project, eMotion: Mapping the Museum Experience, interpreted computer‐modeled movement‐tracking and physiological maps of the visitors in complement with entrance and exit surveys. We tested individual aspects of the visitor, such as her or his expectations of the exhibition prior to seeing it; his or her socio‐demographic characteristics; her or his affinity for art, mood just before and receptivity just after the visit; and spatial, individual, and group‐related behavior patterns. Our study breaks down three types of exhibition experience that we call “the contemplative,” “the enthusing,” and “the social experience.” The results yield new information about aesthetic arousal, cognitive reaction, patterns of social behavior, and the diverse elements of the exhibition experience.     

创新:我们永恒的追求--长江文艺出版社的改革之路

创新,是管理科学的一个术语,但今天它已被广泛地使用于各个行业.其实,创新的同义词就是变革、突破,就是否定之否定.如果我们研究任何一个成功的企业,一个成功的首席执行官,其核心就是敢为天下先,敢于不断地否定自己、超越自己.     

《中图法》艺术类中的美术类目的设置研究

通过对《中图法》第四版艺术类的设置问题进行论述、研究,对该类的归属问题进行论证,提出自己的分类观点和见解。     

The Evolving State of the Art CD-ROM: The National Museum of American Art and Les Impressionistes

The present paper analyzes two prominent art history-based CD-ROMs published in 1996 and 1997, and suggests trends in the information and interface design of cultural multimedia programs. It reviews first- and second-generation feature sets, and assesses the initial impact of object-oriented programming. Both CD-ROMs are described in detail, and their interfaces and navigational structures appraised. Other questions treated include the virtues and pitfalls of hyperlinking, the audience for such ambitious projects, the impact of market dynamics, and potential transferability to the WorldWide Web.     

The Noble Art of Reviewing:

Reviewing (whether book, film, software or CDROM) is an often neglected but important aspect of librarianship. The task provides far more than the essential professional service of locating good titles and avoiding bad ones. It stimulates scholarly debate, stirs up controversy, and perhaps most importantly--gives young librarians in today's undergraduate and college libraries a great place to start publishing. Here are some tricks of the trade, considerations of the hassles, and perspectives on the noble art of reviewing.     

治学有方修身为本--评《成才之路--学习、研究与修身的艺术》

随着社会知识化进程的加快和深入，如何培养高素质的人才，一直是广大教育工作者和受教育者悉心关注的问题。北京大学信息管理系秦铁辉教授编著的《成才之路——学习、研究与修身的艺术》一书已由北京图书馆出版社于2003年8月出版，该书作者结合自己30多年学术研究的经历、体会和人生感悟，针对人才成长中如何学习、研究和修身这三大方面，为我们奉献了一个思考与研究的结晶。     

The Right Stuff in the Right Place: The Institution of Contemporary Art

Abstract A long walk in the “world” of contemporary art gives multiple views of interlocking ecologies that, in their particularities, contradict the stereotypes suggested by language, invert “north” and “south,” question what is “traditional” in artistic practices, reflect on the intermix of society and art, glimpse the colonial mind in postmodern dress, and illuminate a restless subculture of professional migrants. What does our ramble reveal about the institution of contemporary art? “Diversity” hardly seems an adequate word.