Wouter Davidts, Triple Bond: Essays on art, Architecture, and Museums

Museums and Art on the Internet

Andy Warhol, the eternal optimist believed wholeheartedly in the American ideal that every hardworking citizen, given an equal opportunity, earned the inalienable right to become rich and famous. It is no coincidence that we think of Warhol not only with his self-portrait pulled of the Internet from his very own Museum Internet Page but also for his belief in the American dream. For even if Int...

Augmenting Museums and Art Galleries

This paper is concerned with the application of context -aware computing to museums and art galleries. The paper reports three studies addressing this issue. The first study involved a survey of visitors to an art gallery and focused on visitor activity and information requirements. This led to the conclusion that one could define visitor types and relate these to the amount, and level of detai...

Architecture of Art and Magical Architecture in Shahnama

In the world that is depicted by Ferdowsi in Shahnama, architecture (building a placefor human’s living) has a paramount position. In this world, architecture is of two kinds: thearchitecture that has its roots in art, and the architecture that stems from magic. The meaning of art(hunar) in Shahnama is different from its meaning today. Art in Shahnama has a divine origin andis connected with go...

Art Essays and Computer Letters

Evaluation of art museums' web sites worldwide

Nowadays, it is widely observed a constantly growing number of online museums. At the same time, many studies argued that evaluation is the major tool in the effort of designing informative, effective and qualitative web sites. This paper introduces MUSEF (Museum’s Sites Evaluation Framework), a framework for evaluating museums’ sites from the users’ point of view, and applies it to evaluate 21...