RESEARCHERS

Lisa Gjedde is an associate professor of ICT, Media and Learning at the School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. She holds a Ph.D. in Narrative, Cognition and Communication from Roskilde University. Her research has been focused on the role of narrative in learning, the design of interactive and mobile learning environments, exploring tools for imaginative and creative learning and developing processual methods for exploring meaning making.

Bruno Ingemann is an associate professor of Communication studies at Roskilde University, Denmark and has been the head of the research group Centre for Visual Communication from 2002 to 2007. His research has been focused on three fields: Photography, focused on memory of the mirror and how readers relate to the surface of reality. Museology focusing on the reception and experience of the exhibition. Experimental reception studies focused on developing new methods of exploring the observed.

lg@dpu.dk

bruno@ruc.dk

THE MUSEUM_INSIDE PROJECT [2]: Walk-video and the art of experience: Listening into the walking

In the art gallery the stories told is obviously more open and is seeking some kind of framing from the curator of from the user. In this project the use of the video-cap is extended to investigate this kind of self defined learning that is created in the dialogue between the two visitors recorded in their bodily moving and viewing and talking.

THE EXHIBITION is a retrospective exhibition on Ole Sporring, a great Danish artist. Is in introduced with the painters lifelong interest in the Danish humorist Storm P.'s creation of a little comic strip called The three small men combined with a study trip to Arles following the footsteps of van Gogh in 1998 confronted him with these two entities, which normally would not be connected. With a fabulous talent for drawing, Storm P.'s three small men become mediators in his pictures and use paint, make disturbances, lift a corner of the canvas and swing into the lines of the pictures. A surprising and droll clash emerged between the myth of the great artist van Gogh and the busy, active small men.

THE USERS are two special visitors have been invited to participate in the exhibition as my informants. The main participant is Jakob, 27, and his companion is Gunnar, 55.  Doing a Walk-video means the whole person-in-situation experience as it appears during the exhibition is recorded. This does not mean that they are unaffected by the situation because they are, of course, aware of being recorded, which may mean they focus their attention specifically on the artworks and each other, perhaps spending more time on the visit than they would have done if they were not recording a video.
In the analysis of their walk-video we concluded that they feel almost as though they had already talked with the artist through his paintings. They have been to a splendid party with lively dialogue and left with a very good feeling about the person they were talking to. The person behind the works of art may even be more than what the artist placed into the art history.

THE ANALYSIS of the narratives created by the two informants in the exhibition can be read in chapter 4: The Museum_Inside Project [2]: Walk-video and the art of experience: Listening into the walking, p. 75-98.