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DH 250: Final Reflection Responses
Prompt 1: Please discuss the relationship between “exhibit design” and “artifact.” Remember, I’m not looking for dictionary definitions but the meanings and inflections we discussed together in class. Please cite relevant authors as appropriate. Your response should be between 300-400 words. In class, we suggested that an artifact functions as both a “voice” and a “physical trace of a historical moment.” Artifacts serve as primary sources and an assortment of artifacts may become a collection. Artifacts may take a variety of manifestations – a material item or perhaps, in the case of the Slavery in New York exhibit, they might take the imagined shape of archival silences. In this case,…