Brisbois, Kristin;
(2024)
Immersive Art Exhibitions: Exploring their Role for Visitor Meaning Making and Art Appreciation.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
Art museums worldwide are beginning to embrace immersive interactive digital spaces to highlight the lives and work of artists, drive attendance, foster engagement, and provide a unique, multi-sensory visitor experience. Van Gogh Alive has attracted more than 9.0 million visitors. Despite the popularity of these spaces, there has been little scholarly investigation into how these experiences shape meaning making and influence art appreciation. The location for this research was the exhibition “Monet & Friends Alive” at THE LUME at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields. Personal Meaning Maps, semi-structured interviews, observations, and photography generated data which was analyzed through the lens of social constructivism while drawing upon the perspective of embodiment. Personal Meaning Maps and semi-structured interviews were conducted six-months post-visit to consider temporality on meaning making and art appreciation. The research uses Falk and Dierking’s Contextual Model of Learning as the conceptual framework. The findings point to the need to extend the framework to include the concept of whole-body interaction. They also show ways in which participants’ diverse forms of personal, social and physical engagement shaped meaning making and promoted art appreciation. Over time, affect related and episodic memories remained strong which allowed participants to continue to build on their view of art and its cultural importance. This research contributes to the museum education field by exploring meaning making and art appreciation over time in an art museum’s multi-sensory immersive exhibition which includes related traditional and interactive spaces. The research extends our understanding of prior studies by considering the influence of music on art appreciation and contributes to the field by proposing an extension of the Contextual Model of Learning. The findings establish a synergistic relationship between digitally projected imagery and original works of art.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Immersive Art Exhibitions: Exploring their Role for Visitor Meaning Making and Art Appreciation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192279 |
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