[ museum as archive as data center ]
ed. by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle ; with contr. by Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Hito Steyerl, Jonas Staal, Coco Fusco ...[et al.]
- Editor(s)
- Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
- Publication
- New York : e-flux, 2014
- Scope
- paper, folded, [96] Pages, illustrated, 30 cm.
- Carrier
- paper
Are museums being recalibrated as information centers? Is history now the operating system for institutions of art that no longer add to a canon, yet still need historical legitimacy to maintain the financial value of artworks or an image of national heritage? The construction of new and often private museums in financial centers and free trade zones from Abu Dhabi to Hong Kong seem to point to another function altogether, to a shift in the status of the museum from its conservatorial role in society to one that starts to look increasingly more computational. What are these strange new entities that hoard artworks as financial artifacts and use CAD-designed architecture to advertise a city or state? What do they do and what do they want from us?
- Person as subject
- Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Mike Pepi, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Porter McCray, Hito Steyerl, Ali Shamseddine, John Rich, Arseny Zhilyaev, Jonas Staal, Anna T., and Coco Fusco
- Keywords
- museums , data -archiving
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 3: Archieven en collecties
- Extra themes
- Technology + Posthuman Condition
