Bøger af Bruno Ingemann

Why are exhibitions and museums so important? What can they be used for? Who determines relevance in a transformative process? Transforming exhibitions is not just something you do, it is something that gets better the more you do it. This book looks at the intersection of the visitor or user, who gets personal and cultural meaning from their visit and the museum as it appears in the design of the exhibition. It examines on-site communication for intentional and hidden content and messages, and reveals possible relations to the visitor, his or her world and society in general. This investigation also focuses on the processes involved in interpretation and design and takes a closer look at the practices of exhibiting rather than the objects on display. The four main themes in the book are: - Constructions - The visitor at an exhibition - Questions - Experience and learning processes - Invisibles - The exhibition design processes - Openings - Category, objects and communication As a researcher and associate professor of visual communication at Roskilde University, Denmark and as a designer and media artist in his own right, author Bruno Ingemann, PhD, also represents an intersection. A pioneer in Danish museology and in visitor reception studies, he co-edited the anthology New Danish Museology. Present on site is relevant not only for students and researchers in the field of museum communication, media and design studies, but also for exhibition and museum practitioners. "Present on Site brings new attention to the complex and intriguing world of interpretation in museum settings. Using a variety of compelling case studies and theories from education, media, and cultural studies, Ingemann weaves diverse perspectives to the critical issues of visitor perception and reception and the challenges involved as curators and designers attempt to mediate and influence experience. The result is a delightful and refreshingly personal exposé of key museological issues that face museum practitioners daily." - Associate Director Karen Knutson, University of Pittsburgh ------ "This is an important, useful, well-designed and well-written book. Ingemann insightfully argues for the importance of inspirational places in a world mediated by television and digital technologies, by showing how museums link past and present, time and space. He takes on complex, difficult, and controversial issues, and explains them clearly. What happens when visitors become curators? What happens when the familiar meets the new, when the invisible is made visible? As he shows, it results in changing visitors' perceptions, conversations, and confidence. Museums can change our lives, the things we make and discuss, and the world as a whole." - Course Director Dr Kevin Walker, Information Environments, University of the Arts London

This book is not at book. This book is publishing as an artistic practice. This book represents the result of an artistic practice taking place in the last ten years that involved the development and processing of more than thirty individual visual projects. This book explore five themes that, while framed by a short text, remain, most of all, visual: 1. The Border_Projects 2. The Museum_Inside Projects 3. The Release_Projects 4. The Discourse_Projects 5. The Tango_Projects. Looking and thinking backwards Ingemann sees himself as an artist as maker, user, and thinker of archives. His journey has been an inquiry in visual memory – and thereby a personal investigation on how the personal life are closely connected to critical topics in contemporary social history. Categories in the archive is not factual or timely decided but are also emotional and imaginative constructed to reflect the contradicting and complex images constructed. Bruno Ingemann (1945) has been working with pictures of many kinds in his professional life as a graphic designer, artist, photographer, illustrator, communication planner and researcher in a variety of private businesses and public institutions and as a university scholar and teacher.

Det langsomme spejl – den billedskabte erindring i familien – er en bog der kan læses på mange måder. Man kan læse den som en levnedsskildring om en dreng i 1950’erne der lever i en lille familie i en provinsby, til han flytter fra det første hjem og familie. Man kan læse bogen som en slags case på problemer med forandringer og mønsterbrud. Man kan læse bogen som en slags kulturhistorie om 1950’erne set gennem ’det private livs historie’. Man kan læse bogen som en historie om gryende ungdomskultur og mediehistorie lige før alt eksploderer i økonomi, velfærd og ændrede værdier. Og man kan læse bogen som inspirationskilde til metoder til at undersøge sin egen private historie, familien og værdierne.