Emma Duester
Biographic Data
| ID | 936955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Duester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Duester |
| SIGNATURE | DUESTER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1114-4870 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Physical-first Digital Museums
The design of digital museums today prioritizes digital technologies to ensure audiences’ access, motivations, and engagement. However, “digital-first” approaches overlook the importance of physical spaces, bodies, and senses in audience engagement. In response, this paper proposes a “physical-first digital museum” approach that foregrounds physical spaces, bodies, and senses. This provides a more humanistic standpoint from museums’ and audiences…
AI sustainability in the art sector
Nationwide integration of AI into the contemporary art sector has taken place since government AI regulations in 2023 to promote AI use. China’s AI integration into industry is ‘ahead’ of other countries, meaning that other countries can learn from these creative professionals. Consequently, contemporary visual artists have devised arts-led sustainable AI solutions to overcome global AI concerns. They are now putting these solutions into practice…
Contemporary visual artists from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
Digital art work and AI
This paper explores a paradigm shift in work culture in the contemporary art sector due to digital transition and the introduction of AI. New ways of working with AI and digital software are embedded and normalized in everyday Chinese artistic practices. This work includes new forms of creativity and efficiency, yet, simultaneously includes new types of digital labour. This paper conceptualizes this as “digital art work ,” which draws attention t…
Photogrammetry for Digitization and Digital Display as a Sustainable Way to Develop Vietnam’s Museum Sector
This paper explores how photogrammetry and free, open-source software can be used to sustainably develop museum sector capacity to digitize and publish Vietnam’s cultural heritage online. This approach was developed and applied during a digitization project as a solution to overcome challenges experienced in Vietnam concerning a lack of human, technical and financial resources. This paper draws on findings from a co-designed action research proje…
(Up)rooted in mobile careers
This article explores the embedded and embodied ‘culture of geographic mobility’ across contemporary visual artists’ careers and its impacts on their feelings towards mobility and home. This article uncovers the under-explored aspects about artists’ lifestyles, for whom geographic cross-border mobilities across Europe are a necessity throughout these artists’ careers. In addition to changes in mobility patterns, pace, motives over their careers, …
Futureproofing the Museum Sector in Vietnam
This paper draws on findings from a systemic review of work published globally on museums' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic and recommendations for future development in the museum sector. This can be used to determine the best practices for museums, including how to create engaging digital content, boost cultural tourism using digital technologies, create new business models, and manage copyright and legal protection of digitized content. It c…
Digital Culture and Arts Communication via Facebook
This paper investigates the use of Facebook by cultural professionals in Vietnam to maintain connections with their audiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. Facebook provided a simple and free way of maintaining connections with audiences at a time of increased pressure to shift and adapt to online work immediately. However, concerns have emerged about the nature of arts-centred endeavours that are at odds with this for-profit platform and the pro…
Redressing digital orientalism
Cultural professionals in the art and cultural sector in Hanoi, Vietnam, are carrying out digitization projects and utilizing digital platforms, tools and applications in order to curate their own narrative on Vietnamese art and culture. This can help to counter digital orientalism by redressing the imbalance in the amount of accessible content online as well as control over the production and circulation of cultural content. An increase in the a…
International careers and cross-border cultural exchanges
During the Cold War, there were many cross-border cultural exchanges between the western and eastern blocs. Soviet citizens were travelling out of the Soviet Union on group tourism tips and European citizens were travelling into the Soviet Union to source out artistic talent for exhibitions in Western Europe. Due to their histories, the Baltic art worlds are today heavily government funded and are only beginning to develop commercially. However, …
Alternative scriptwriting
"Alternative scriptwriting: beyond the Hollywood formula." Journal of Media Practice, 16(3), pp. 281–282
For necessity or pleasure? Towards a politics of artists’ mobilities
There is a great deal of literature on east–west European migration that argues that push factors for moving West are discrepancies in economic situation and living standards. The British press similarly says that there is ‘a new wave of labour migration’ of those ‘seeking out better wages’. However, what is not asked is whether there are any other kinds of movement from Eastern Europe. This article will, instead, look at Eastern European migrati…
(Up)rooted in mobile careers
This article explores the embedded and embodied ‘culture of geographic mobility’ across contemporary visual artists’ careers and its impacts on their feelings towards mobility and home. This article uncovers the under-explored aspects about artists’ lifestyles, for whom geographic cross-border mobilities across Europe are a necessity throughout these artists’ careers. In addition to changes in mobility patterns, pace, motives over their careers, …
Digital Culture and Arts Communication via Facebook
This paper investigates the use of Facebook by cultural professionals in Vietnam to maintain connections with their audiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. Facebook provided a simple and free way of maintaining connections with audiences at a time of increased pressure to shift and adapt to online work immediately. However, concerns have emerged about the nature of arts-centred endeavours that are at odds with this for-profit platform and the pro…
For necessity or pleasure? Towards a politics of artists’ mobilities
There is a great deal of literature on east–west European migration that argues that push factors for moving West are discrepancies in economic situation and living standards. The British press similarly says that there is ‘a new wave of labour migration’ of those ‘seeking out better wages’. However, what is not asked is whether there are any other kinds of movement from Eastern Europe. This article will, instead, look at Eastern European migrati…
Alternative scriptwriting
"Alternative scriptwriting: beyond the Hollywood formula." Journal of Media Practice, 16(3), pp. 281–282
For necessity or pleasure? Towards a politics of artists’ mobilities
There is a great deal of literature on east–west European migration that argues that push factors for moving West are discrepancies in economic situation and living standards. The British press similarly says that there is ‘a new wave of labour migration’ of those ‘seeking out better wages’. However, what is not asked is whether there are any other kinds of movement from Eastern Europe. This article will, instead, look at Eastern European migrati…
International careers and cross-border cultural exchanges
During the Cold War, there were many cross-border cultural exchanges between the western and eastern blocs. Soviet citizens were travelling out of the Soviet Union on group tourism tips and European citizens were travelling into the Soviet Union to source out artistic talent for exhibitions in Western Europe. Due to their histories, the Baltic art worlds are today heavily government funded and are only beginning to develop commercially. However, …
Redressing digital orientalism
Cultural professionals in the art and cultural sector in Hanoi, Vietnam, are carrying out digitization projects and utilizing digital platforms, tools and applications in order to curate their own narrative on Vietnamese art and culture. This can help to counter digital orientalism by redressing the imbalance in the amount of accessible content online as well as control over the production and circulation of cultural content. An increase in the a…
Photogrammetry for Digitization and Digital Display as a Sustainable Way to Develop Vietnam’s Museum Sector
This paper explores how photogrammetry and free, open-source software can be used to sustainably develop museum sector capacity to digitize and publish Vietnam’s cultural heritage online. This approach was developed and applied during a digitization project as a solution to overcome challenges experienced in Vietnam concerning a lack of human, technical and financial resources. This paper draws on findings from a co-designed action research proje…
(Up)rooted in mobile careers
This article explores the embedded and embodied ‘culture of geographic mobility’ across contemporary visual artists’ careers and its impacts on their feelings towards mobility and home. This article uncovers the under-explored aspects about artists’ lifestyles, for whom geographic cross-border mobilities across Europe are a necessity throughout these artists’ careers. In addition to changes in mobility patterns, pace, motives over their careers, …
Futureproofing the Museum Sector in Vietnam
This paper draws on findings from a systemic review of work published globally on museums' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic and recommendations for future development in the museum sector. This can be used to determine the best practices for museums, including how to create engaging digital content, boost cultural tourism using digital technologies, create new business models, and manage copyright and legal protection of digitized content. It c…
Digital Culture and Arts Communication via Facebook
This paper investigates the use of Facebook by cultural professionals in Vietnam to maintain connections with their audiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. Facebook provided a simple and free way of maintaining connections with audiences at a time of increased pressure to shift and adapt to online work immediately. However, concerns have emerged about the nature of arts-centred endeavours that are at odds with this for-profit platform and the pro…
Contemporary visual artists from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
Digital art work and AI
This paper explores a paradigm shift in work culture in the contemporary art sector due to digital transition and the introduction of AI. New ways of working with AI and digital software are embedded and normalized in everyday Chinese artistic practices. This work includes new forms of creativity and efficiency, yet, simultaneously includes new types of digital labour. This paper conceptualizes this as “digital art work ,” which draws attention t…
AI sustainability in the art sector
Nationwide integration of AI into the contemporary art sector has taken place since government AI regulations in 2023 to promote AI use. China’s AI integration into industry is ‘ahead’ of other countries, meaning that other countries can learn from these creative professionals. Consequently, contemporary visual artists have devised arts-led sustainable AI solutions to overcome global AI concerns. They are now putting these solutions into practice…
Physical-first Digital Museums
The design of digital museums today prioritizes digital technologies to ensure audiences’ access, motivations, and engagement. However, “digital-first” approaches overlook the importance of physical spaces, bodies, and senses in audience engagement. In response, this paper proposes a “physical-first digital museum” approach that foregrounds physical spaces, bodies, and senses. This provides a more humanistic standpoint from museums’ and audiences…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (3 works) · Digital media (3 works)