Susanne B Schmitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5144396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne B Schmitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne B |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmitt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMITT S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Museum für Naturkunde |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Taxidermy in Motion, (not) from a Bird's-eye Perspective: Choreographing Disappearance at the Australian Museum Choreographing Disappearance at the Australian Museum
This reflection piece interrogates what a focus on movement can bring to understanding more-than-human relationality in a museum space. It does so by zooming in on choreography and taxidermy as practices that both enable movement and kinesthetic becoming. It focusses on “Send out a Pulse!”, an artistic intervention for the Australian Museum in Sydney. Said piece is a nontraditional, choreographic audio walk made by the author as part of “How to N…
Museums' Strategies for Opening up to Open Access. German Museums' Utilization Logics for Digital Content
Museums are expected to safeguard society's cultural heritage while also making it publicly available to all. Recently, the digital transformation increased political and societal claims on museums to make their digital content openly available. This paper explores museums' reactions to this claim and looks at how museums currently utilize their digital content. By analysing qualitative interviews with German museum officials we have found museum…
Making charismatic ecologies
Aquariums are early and crucial sites for ecological experimentation and knowledge-making who simultaneously carry a great deal of aesthetic appeal. Susanne B. Schmitt’s contribution moves through different elements enfolding aquarium dwellers, their audiences and makers. In spite of the centrality of air within atmospherology, her chapter on aquarium atmospheres engages with the ‘how?’ of and the ‘what for?’ of the creation of underwater worlds …
Exploring Atmospheres Ethnographically
The funeral fiesta at the Science Museum: Translating sensory contexts and representing the Mexican Día de los Muertos in an exhibition on food
Todos santos, or día de los muertos est une des fêtes les plus connues et les plus visibles des cérémonies mexicaines qui commémorent le retour des morts auprès de leur famille grâce à la tentation provoquée lors de la préparation de leurs plats préférés. Cet article nous propose une observation ethnographique de la recomposition d’une exposition sur la nourriture au sein de la reconfiguration d’une exposition permanente du Deutsches Hygiene-Muse…
Exploring Atmospheres Ethnographically
Taxidermy in Motion, (not) from a Bird's-eye Perspective: Choreographing Disappearance at the Australian Museum Choreographing Disappearance at the Australian Museum
This reflection piece interrogates what a focus on movement can bring to understanding more-than-human relationality in a museum space. It does so by zooming in on choreography and taxidermy as practices that both enable movement and kinesthetic becoming. It focusses on “Send out a Pulse!”, an artistic intervention for the Australian Museum in Sydney. Said piece is a nontraditional, choreographic audio walk made by the author as part of “How to N…
The funeral fiesta at the Science Museum: Translating sensory contexts and representing the Mexican Día de los Muertos in an exhibition on food
Todos santos, or día de los muertos est une des fêtes les plus connues et les plus visibles des cérémonies mexicaines qui commémorent le retour des morts auprès de leur famille grâce à la tentation provoquée lors de la préparation de leurs plats préférés. Cet article nous propose une observation ethnographique de la recomposition d’une exposition sur la nourriture au sein de la reconfiguration d’une exposition permanente du Deutsches Hygiene-Muse…
Making charismatic ecologies
Aquariums are early and crucial sites for ecological experimentation and knowledge-making who simultaneously carry a great deal of aesthetic appeal. Susanne B. Schmitt’s contribution moves through different elements enfolding aquarium dwellers, their audiences and makers. In spite of the centrality of air within atmospherology, her chapter on aquarium atmospheres engages with the ‘how?’ of and the ‘what for?’ of the creation of underwater worlds …
Exploring Atmospheres Ethnographically
Museums' Strategies for Opening up to Open Access. German Museums' Utilization Logics for Digital Content
Museums are expected to safeguard society's cultural heritage while also making it publicly available to all. Recently, the digital transformation increased political and societal claims on museums to make their digital content openly available. This paper explores museums' reactions to this claim and looks at how museums currently utilize their digital content. By analysing qualitative interviews with German museum officials we have found museum…
Taxidermy in Motion, (not) from a Bird's-eye Perspective: Choreographing Disappearance at the Australian Museum Choreographing Disappearance at the Australian Museum
This reflection piece interrogates what a focus on movement can bring to understanding more-than-human relationality in a museum space. It does so by zooming in on choreography and taxidermy as practices that both enable movement and kinesthetic becoming. It focusses on “Send out a Pulse!”, an artistic intervention for the Australian Museum in Sydney. Said piece is a nontraditional, choreographic audio walk made by the author as part of “How to N…
Art (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Art history (1 works)