Archival Aesthetics

“Archive Wall” from the 2013 “Nam June Paik: Global Visionary”
exhibition @ the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Via Cervin Robinson
Via Christina Davis
Thomas Demand, Archive, 1995
Research Collections
and Preservation
Consortium Facility
@ Princeton
Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, Netherlands
Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Paris
Kigali Genocide Memorial archives, Rwanda
Christian Boltanski
William Gibson &
Dennis Ashbaugh,
Agrippa
 Three.org, The Unreliable Archivist;
Olia Lialina, “Anna Karenin Goes to Paradise”
Manual Palou, 5
Million Dollars 1
Terabyte [sculpture
consisting of 1 TB
external hard drive
containing
$5,000,000 worth of
illegally downloaded
files]

Jason Loebs,
Atnrhpomemoria
[MacBook batteries
marked w/
fingerprints in anti-
counterfeit ink]
JODI, Jet Set
Willy Variations

New Museum,
XFR STN
http://0100101110101101.org/
Theaster Gates, Dorchester Projects
Thomas Hirschhorn, Gramsci Monument, 2013
Ann Hamilton, Accountings
Ann Hamilton, corpus
Ann Hamilton, Aleph
Ann Hamilton, myein
Ann Hamilton, indigo blue & tropos
Ann Hamilton, mattering
 Ann Hamilton,
the event of a thread
Radio-in-
a-bag
Ann Hamilton, indigo blue
tropos
Camille Henrot, Grosse Fatigue
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