Sight as Site in the Digital Age

Kwok-kan TAM is Chair Professor of English and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He is former Head and current member of the International Ibsen Committee, University of Oslo. His recent publications include the books Ibsen, Power and the Self: Postsocialist Chinese Experimentations in Stage Performance and Film (2019); Chinese Ibsenism: Reinventions of Women, Class and Nation (2019); and The Englishized Subject: Postcolonial Writings in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia (2019). He edits the Springer book series Digital Culture and Humanities.

• Introduction. Site as Sight in the Digital Age: Art, the Museum and Representation.- Chapter 1.What is a “Site”? Human Scales, Embodied Experiences and the Physical-Digital Interface.- Chapter 2. Site as Sight: Virtual Andersen in East Asia.- Chapter 3. Archives and Museums in the Decontextualised Digital World.- Chapter 4. Do Museums Still Need Objects? Politics of Museums Reconsidered in the Digital Era.- Chapter 5.Museums and Archives in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Post-Representation.- Chapter 6. Implicit Heritage Values in Online Collection Databases: Assessing the Presentation of Egyptian Artefacts in Art Museum Contexts.- Chapter 7. Large Datasets and the Particularity of Art: Will There Be Any Art in the Deep Learning Age?.- Chapter 8. Van Gogh’s Universe in the Crossways of Audiovisual Art and Digital Technology: A Comparative Case Study from an Intermedial Perspective.- Chapter 9. New Stage Aesthetics in the Digital Age.- Chapter 10. Luvv Bazar: Queer and Feminist Representation in Music Video After the Internet.- Chapter 11. Demystify Twenty-First Century Creativity, Innovation and Education through Film Analysis.- Chapter 12. Visual Art as Alternative Epistemological Approach.