We expect that these images are ‘true’, true to the original.

We also accept that there may be a different qualities involved with technical reproduction affecting our enjoyment.

Clari mentions in her chapter:

it might be interesting to find out how the experience affects the participants’ perception of the original photograph, how the physical object now stands in the minds of the online participants; as I said earlier, interestingly, nowhere in the discussion has the question of real versus virtual copy arisen. Equally, it would be interesting to get the participants’ sense of the role of the original ‘place’, the Library of Congress, which for many years has been the custodian of the original photograph, as well as the latter’s take on the experience.

Similar to the pun of the Maxwell audio tapes advert (below- with the lyrics)  we may see images of artworks which will bear little/some/great/high definition resemblance to the original image. Different meanings ensue….

Will the perception of museum spaces be affected by our experience of online spaces?

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Maxwell advert: ‘my ears are alight’

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Desmond Dekker ‘Israelites’ compare original lyrics

I get up in the morning slaving for bread sir
so that every mouth can be fed — poor me Israelites

I get up in the morning slaving for bread sir
so that every mouth can be fed — poor me Israelites
my wife and my kids they pack up and a-leave me
darling she said I was yours to be seen — poor me Israelites

Shocked then I tear up chose as I go
I don’t want to end up like Bonny and Clyde — poor me Israelites
after a storm there must be a calming
you catch me in your farm you sound your alarm — poor me Israelites

By the way, this another great homage – by Google!

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