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The Internet and Institutions
Curator - Nikolai Selivanov
The Internet and Institutions topic opens one of the most
important directions in discussion on new position of culture, which is
rather complicated and contradictory today. The question is about the
time of information society cultural model formation. Structural
organization of cultural and educational institutions that were formed
hundred and even more years ago demonstrates its insolvency in actual
problems of the new social and cultural model, and lacks changes.
Educational machine produces specialists adequate merely to strict
constructions and synonymous qualities. Expert institutions of art
firmly stick to elite value systems formed according to the obsolete
level of public consciousness. The Internet and media culture together
with nationalization of information resources and shift of language
models is catastrophic for them. It’s clear that the situation is
temporary. That is the situation of a transition period. The main part
of cultural, art and educational institutions are ready for changes. The
‘renovation’ process is much stimulated by the desire to stay
actual. Those young and active people that have recently built their
careers, and are specialized in a particular narrow field, which is not
applicable now, keenly face the problem of preserving the actuality. The
problem of formation of a new consciousness type adapted to rapid change
of professional activity content and ready for interdisciplinary
activity as well as for language (i.e. professional language)
manipulations is seemed to be the key one for current educational
structure and for creation of new educational models. And it’s obvious
for creative education to lead in this process. The majority of
humanitarian specialists have already understood that
‘modernization’ of an institution through introduction of new
technologies is not effective. I hope we’ll get to know new ideas and
conceptual creations that might allow discovering the principal
difference between re-conceptualization of institutional structures and
passive ‘modernization’. This issue is vital for museums engaged in
conservation of works of art and other monuments of material culture.
Interpretation of museum collection for the Internet becomes a key
instrumental method to re-comprehend the museum model. These innovative
tasks are practically solved by media and data centers of museums and
universities and new educational structures. Virtual institutions
performing as net interdisciplinary communities and subject servers
realizing various projects create absolutely new and effective models.
We’re looking for demonstration of new instrumental approaches, new
methods and critical ideas from specialists and creators of such
institutions. Though it might sound like a paradox, the update situation
in Russian culture as well as in the world culture depends on our
conscientiousness, ethic competence and efficiency. Let me invite all
participants of the symposium for a deep and sincere dialogue.
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